Portal:Current events/2009 March 8
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March 8, 2009
(Sunday)
- Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav will be charged with rape and indecent assault. (Bloomberg)
- A gunman kills one person and injures two others at a Baptist church in Maryville, Illinois, United States. (CNN)
- A suicide attack kills at least 28 people and injures 57 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
- U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Operation Enduring Freedom's forces are "not winning" the war in Afghanistan. (BBC)
- Two members of the British Army's 38 Engineer Regiment are killed in Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. (BBC)
- North Korea holds elections for its Supreme People's Assembly. (AP)