Portal:Current events/2009 July 27

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• The United States and China hold the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AFP)
• Mediterranean fies which have killed eight people continue and spread to Croatia. (RTÉ) (The Times)
• A rural community in the Eastern Cape in South Africa lays claim to the entire town of Mthatha in one of the biggest land restitution cases since the end of apartheid. (Sky News)
• Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church begins a visit to Ukraine. (BBC)
• French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves hospital after being tested. (BBC) (RTÉ)
• German health minister Ulla Schmidt is criticised when her official car is stolen during the burglarization of her driver's hotel room in Alicante, Spain. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle)

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