Portal:Current events/2009 January 30
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- Six people are killed when a Piper PA-34 Seneca crashes near Huntington, West Virginia, United States. (AP via Fox News)
- The U.S. State Department will not renew security contractor Blackwater Worldwide's license when it expires in May 2009. (CNN)
- Michael S. Steele becomes the U.S. Republican National Committee's first African-American chairman. (CNN)
- Somalia's Transitional Federal Government collapses after Al-Shabaab captures Baidoa. (NPR)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces an investigation into Israel's attack on the U.N.'s Gaza Strip headquarters. (Al Jazeera)
- A heat wave affects southeastern Australia, with both Adelaide and Melbourne experiencing temperatures above 45 °C (113 °F). (Australian BOM)
- More than one thousand workers strike at four different United Kingdom oil refineries. (Sky News)
- Thirteen people are killed and 47 people are missing after a Nakumatt supermarket burns in Nairobi, Kenya. (CNN)
- Norway announces it will raise the U-864 from the North Atlantic. (Norway Post)
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