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The Sri Lankan military seizes control of Kilinochchi, the de facto capital of the Tamil Tigers.
Slovakia adopts the euro, replacing the koruna, and becomes the 16th member of the Eurozone.
In Bangkok, Thailand, a fire at a nightclub kills 61 people and injures 212.
The discovery of a bed of dinosaur fossils near Zhucheng in Shandong, China (location highlighted in the map), believed to be the world's largest fossil site, is announced.
Kabiné Komara is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Guinea by the ruling military junta.
A new government is formed in Belgium, with Herman Van Rompuy succeeding Yves Leterme as the new Prime Minister.
Israel launches Operation Cast Lead in response to recent attacks by Hamas, killing more than 350 people in the Gaza Strip.

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January 3, 2009 (Saturday)

January 3, 2009 Wikinews articles

January 2, 2009 (Friday)

2008 SLA Northern offensive: The Sri Lankan Army captures the Tamil Tigers' de facto capital of Kilinochchi. (BBC)
Ethiopia withdraws its military forces from Somalia after two years of helping the Transitional Federal Government combat insurgents. (BBC)
Luis Fortuño is sworn in as Governor of Puerto Rico. (AP)

January 2, 2009 Wikinews articles

January 1, 2009 (Thursday)

An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip city of Jabalia kills senior Hamas military commander Nizar Rayan and 13 members of his family. (Al Jazeera)
At least five people die and more than 50 are injured in serial bombings in Guwahati, India. (CNN-IBN)
Gazprom halts deliveries of natural gas to Ukraine after negotiations over prices fail. (RIA Novosti) (Reuters)
Slovakia adopts the euro and becomes the 16th member of the Eurozone. (Reuters), (BBC)
Virgin Galactic and the U.S. state of New Mexico sign a US$150-250 million agreement to launch sub-orbital commercial space flights at Spaceport America, near Las Cruces and Truth or Consequences. (Space.com)
A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, kills 61 people and injures more than 200. (AP via Google News)

January 1, 2009 Wikinews articles

December 31, 2008 (Wednesday)

Several bombs and further threats by a disgruntled resident lead police to evacuate downtown Aspen, Colorado, United States. (New York Times)
Israel rejects a proposed stoppage of Operation Cast Lead that would also have ceased rocket attacks from Hamas so humanitarian aid could be delivered to affected areas in the Gaza Strip. (Bloomberg)
A car bomb explodes in Bilbao, Spain, and is blamed on Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, a Basque nationalist and separatist organisation. (CNN)
One of the world's biggest accumulations of dinosaur fossils is found near Zhucheng, China. (Reuters), (BBC)

December 31, 2008 Wikinews articles

Wikinews' overview of the year 2008

December 30, 2008 (Tuesday)

Eight of eleven snowmobilers buried by avalanches in British Columbia, Canada, are found dead. (CTV News)
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appoints former Democratic Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to President-elect Barack Obama's vacated United States Senate seat. Democratic Senate leaders and Secretary of State Jesse White say they will not accept the appointment. (Chicago Sun-Times) (ABC7 Chicago)
Following the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections, the National Conference and National Congress parties agree to form a coalition government. (BBC)
Sheikh Hasina's Awami League wins a supermajority in Bangladesh's National Assembly. (Rediff)
Herman Van Rompuy is sworn in as Belgium's new Prime Minister, replacing Yves Leterme. (Reuters)
The National Council for Democracy and Development, the ruling military junta of Guinea after a recent coup, appoints Kabiné Komara as the country's new Prime Minister. (BBC)

December 30, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 29, 2008 (Monday)

President of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed resigns. Parliamentary Speaker Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe will take over for 30 days, in which time the legislature will select a new head of state. (BBC)
Bangladeshis vote in their country's general election. (BBC)
Liverpool F.C. player Steven Gerrard is arrested following an altercation at a Southport nightclub and subsequently charged with Section 20 grievous bodily harm. (BBC)
An Ebola outbreak in West Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo kills 11 people. (BBC)

December 29, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 28, 2008 (Sunday)

Operation Cast Lead

The Israel Defense Forces continue airstrikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip as the number of Palestinian casualties approaches 300. (ABC News)
The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Israeli airstrikes against Gaza. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Kingdom, European Union, Russia, France, and China all call for a ceasefire. (PressTV) (CNN) (Xinhua)

2008 Garamba offensive: Uganda's People's Defence Force accuses the Lord's Resistance Army of hacking to death 45 people in a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (France 24)
A suicide bomber kills at least 16 people, 14 of them children, and injures 58 in Afghanistan's Khost Province. (BBC)
A suicide bomber kills five Department of Civil Defence members and injures four others in Wattala, Sri Lanka. (BBC)
Ghanaians vote in the presidential election run-off between Nana Akufo-Addo and John Atta Mills. (BBC)
Mexican authorities arrest Army Major Arturo González Rodríguez for selling information to the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel. (BBC)
Four boats carrying approximately 1,700 illegal Libyan migrants arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa. (BBC)
James Tanis wins Bougainville's Presidential election and will succeed Joseph Kabui, who died on June 7. (ABC Radio)

December 28, 2008 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Automotive industry crisis Canadian political crisis Diplomatic response to Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence Gaza Strip airstrikes Global financial crisis Greek riots Guinean coup d'état Icelandic financial crisis Nord-Kivu campaign Presidential transition of Barack Obama Piracy in Somalia Russian financial crisis Slovakian transition to the Euro Treaty of Lisbon ratification World food price crisis Zimbabwean cholera outbreak edit sidebar

Recent deaths
January 2: Maria de Jesus 1: Claiborne Pell 1: Helen Suzman 1: Nizar Rayan December 31: Donald E. Westlake 30: Bernie Hamilton 29: Freddie Hubbard 27: Robert Graham 27: Jaafar of Malaysia 26: Justin Eilers 26: Gösta Krantz 25: Eartha Kitt 24: Samuel P. Huntington 24: Harold Pinter 22: Lansana Conté 21: Dale Wasserman 20: Olga Lepeshinskaya 20: Adrian Mitchell 20: Robert Mulligan 19: James Bevel 19: Bernard Crick 19: Dock Ellis

Ongoing conflicts
War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Casamance Conflict Fourth Civil War of Chad Second Chechen War Colombian Civil War War in Darfur Fatah–Hamas conflict Iran-PJAK conflict Iraq War Israeli-Palestinian conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Kayin State Conflict Kivu conflict Insurgency in the Maghreb Mexican Drug War Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Conflict in the Niger Delta Insurgency in Ogaden War in North-West Pakistan Communist and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines The Secret War Somali Civil War Sri Lankan Civil War War on Terrorism South Thailand insurgency Second Tuareg Rebellion Turkey-PKK conflict Second Ugandan Civil War edit sidebar

Elections
Recent December 7 December: Ghana, President (1^st Round) and Parliament 10 December: Switzerland, Federal Council 14 December: Turkmenistan, Parliament (1^st Round) 28 December: Ghana, President (2^nd Round) 28 December: Turkmenistan, Parliament (2^nd Round) 29 December: Bangladesh, General Upcoming January 18 January: El Salvador, Parliament 25 January: Bolivia, Constitutional referendum

Trials
Upcoming Austria: Josef Fritzl Canada: Larry O'Brien Estonia: Herman Simm Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: ICTY Radovan Karadžić Singapore: Chee Soon Juan and others Singapore: Peter Lloyd U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá U.S.: Rod Blagojevich U.S.: Viktor Bout U.S.: Noshir Gowadia U.S.: William J. Jefferson U.S.: James Charles Kopp U.S.: Bernard L. Madoff U.S.: Ehren Watada Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Peru: Alberto Fujimori Republic of China (Taiwan): Chen Shui-bian Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra US: Jena Six US: Brian Nichols US: José Padilla US: Phil Spector

Upcoming holidays and observances
January December 25 - January 6: Twelve Days of Christmas (Christianity) 2: Ancestry Day (Haiti) 2: Granada Conquest Day (Spain) 2: Berchtoldstag (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace) 3: Admission Day (Alaska) 3: Peoples’ Uprise Day (Burkina Faso) 4: Martyrs’ Day (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo) 4: Independence Day (Myanmar) 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity) 5: Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti (Sikhism) 5: Mungday (Discordianism) edit sidebar

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