Portal:Current events/2009 September 20: Difference between revisions

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*[[61st Primetime Emmy Awards]]

**[[Toni Collette]] wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for playing Tara Gregson on ''[[United States of Tara]]''. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gdZYquCkhax758t3m92KQpgt3LKQD9ARCN2O1 (AP via Google News)]

**[[Alec Baldwin]] wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for playing [[Jack Donaghy]] on ''[[30 Rock]]''. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gdZYquCkhax758t3m92KQpgt3LKQD9ARCVVO0 (AP via Google News)]

**[[Glenn Close]] wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Patty Hewes on ''[[Damages (TV series)|Damages]]''. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/20/entertainment/e180853D72.DTL (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)]

**[[Bryan Cranston]] wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for playing Walter White on ''[[Breaking Bad]]''. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/20/entertainment/e180853D72.DTL (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)]

**''[[Mad Men]]'' wins the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gI11Yfjmko2nALepNs-3drv3PccQD9ARETQ00 (AP via Google News]

*[[Trafigura]] oil trading firm agrees to [[2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump|pay more than $46 million compensation]] to more than 30,000 people in [[Côte d'Ivoire]] who say they were made ill by dumped waste in 2006. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8265193.stm (BBC)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/2009920132129567154.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/trafigura-settles-over-ivory-coast-toxic-waste-claims-20090920-fwut.html (''The Sydney Morning Herald'')] [http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLK593911 (Reuters)] [http://www.france24.com/en/20090920-ivory-coast-toxic-waste-dumping-trafigura-reaches-settlement-claims (France 24)] [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6839258.ece (''The Times'')]

*More than 140 [[Shia Islam|Shiite]] Houthi rebels are killed in northern [[Yemen]] after they attempt to take over the government palace in the city of [[Sa'dah]]. [http://www.sabanews.net/en/news194060.htm (Yemen News Agency)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iydUqVjH6TUmobVgoVJqsIgg8iuA (AFP)] [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106684&sectionid=351020206 (Press TV)]

*[[Cuba]] hosts the largest open air concert since the 1959 [[Cuban Revolution]] in [[Plaza de la Revolución|Revolution Square]] in the capital [[Havana]]. [http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/septiembre/domingo20/palabras-i.html (''Granma'')] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8265177.stm (BBC)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjPq22GvQrQscxHfi5FGRTLOAlMgD9AR6CH00 (Associated Press)]

*[[Colombia]]n [[President of Colombia|President]] [[Álvaro Uribe]] eases the terms for the release of 24 police and soldiers being held by [[Marxism|Marx]]ist [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|FARC]] rebels. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8265167.stm (BBC)]

*[[Democratic Republic of Congo]] transfers [[Grégoire Ndahimana]] to the [[International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda]] (ICTR) to stand trial for the massacre of at least 2,000 [[Rwandan]] [[Tutsis]] during the [[Rwandan Genocide|1994 genocide]]. [http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE58J1E520090920 (Reuters)]

*The [[Government of Ireland]] approves the introduction of a national [[postal code]]. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0920/postcode.html (RTÉ)]

*Tribesmen attack a village in south [[Sudan]], overwhelming soldiers guarding the settlement and killing an unknown number. [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=136&art_id=nw20090920230334122C574551 (IOL)]

*[[Somalia]]'s [[Al-Shabaab (Somalia)|al-Shabaab]] insurgents warn schools not to use textbooks provided by [[United Nations]] agencies and other donors they accuse of being un-[[Islam]]ic. [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=87&art_id=nw20090920110936634C756282 (IOL)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8265559.stm (BBC)] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/6211720/Somali-insurgents-warn-schools-not-to-use-UN-textbooks.html (''The Daily Telegraph'')] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092000312.html (''The Washington Post'')]

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