< Portal:Current events
March 23, 2009 (Monday)
- A car bomb is located and defused near a shopping mall in Haifa, Israel. (BBC)
- Two suicide attacks in Iraq kill at least 22 people and injure more than 50 others. (Bloomberg)
- Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupts four more times. (Physorg)
- The United States Treasury Department announces that it will purchase high-yield debts from banks. (Reuters)
- Gjorge Ivanov of the VMRO–DPMNE leads the first round of Macedonia's presidential election. (Reuters via The Boston Globe)
- FedEx Express Flight 80 crashes at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, killing both pilots. (CNN) (MSNBC)
- A suicide attack kills one person and injures three others in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Sky News)
- A Japanese cargo ship escapes Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (Reuters)
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