Portal:Current events/2009 July 30

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• Palmanova bombing
  • At least two people are killed in a car bomb explosion at a Guardia Civil barracks in Palmanova on the Spanish island of Mallorca. (RTÉ) (Straits Times)
  • Police order the closure of all airports and ports to prevent the culprits escaping. (BBC)
• Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha indicates he may legalise gay marriage in the country. (CBS) (Straits Times)
• Nigerian forces attack a mosque used by the militant Islamist Boko Haram group. (This Day) (Al Jazeera) (The Times)
• Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai fires Foreign Minister Wilkie Rasmussen, accusing him of plotting to topple the government. (RNZI)
• A South Korean fishing boat is towed away by a North Korean patrol boat. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (The Korea Times)
• The United States Coast Guard calls off its search for as many as 79 Haitians missing after their boat capsized near the Turks and Caicos Islands with two hundred people onboard. (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
• Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises to create 50,000 green jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously. (Straits Times)
• U.S. President Barack Obama leads a beer summit with a white police officer and African American public intellectual Henry Louis Gates at the White House in a bid to quell a dispute over racial profiling. (AP via New York Times)
• Referendum Commission research indicates a significant increase in the level of understanding of the Treaty of Lisbon among Irish voters. (RTÉ)
• 8 people are killed and 10 are injured in a bomb attack on the offices of a Sunni political party, Kitab Sultan, in Diyala Governorate. (Straits Times)

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