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February 17, 2009
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2009-02-17
)
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United States
President
Barack Obama
authorizes the
deployment
of 12,000 more
soldiers
into the
Afghanistan
War
.
(CNN)
The
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
charges
Stanford Financial Group
Chairman
Allen Stanford
with
fraud
.
(BBC)
British
lawyer
David Mills
is sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for
accepting
a
£
400,000
bribe
from
Italian
Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi
.
(BBC)
Walter Veltroni
resigns as Secretary of
Italy
's
Democratic Party
.
(BBC)
Legal charges
against
The Pirate Bay
are amended.
(
The Local
)
Late 2000s recession in the Americas
:
U.S.
President
Obama
signs the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
in
Denver
,
Colorado
.
(CNN)
General Motors
and
Chrysler
inform the
U.S.
federal government
that they will need
additional loans
of
$
21.6 billion.
(CNN)
Shōichi Nakagawa
will resign as
Japan
's
Minister of Finance
after the
National Diet
approves a
budget
in April.
(AP via Google News)
California
will
lay off
20,000
government
workers, due to the
State Legislature
's failure to pass a
budget
.
(Reuters)
U.S.
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
arrives in
Japan
to deliberate the
global economic crisis
and
international security
.
(Sky News)
Former
Khmer Rouge
leader
Kang Kek Iew
stands trial before the
Extraordinary Chambers
in
Cambodia
.
(CNN)
Irish Nationwide
Chairman
Michael Walsh resigns over his involvement in
questionable loan arrangements
with
Anglo Irish Bank
.
(RTÉ)
Fifty people are detained in
Guadeloupe
after
general strikes
escalate into
rioting
.
(
International Herald Tribune
)
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