< Portal:Current events
November 10, 2009 (Tuesday)
- A power failure at Itaipu causes a massive blackout, affecting 15 states of Brazil and, briefly, the entire country of Paraguay; chaos is reported in major cities such as São Paulo. (BBC)
- South and North Korean naval ships fire on one another after a North Korean ship crossed the disputed Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea. The vessel later returned "wrapped in flames" after the incident. (Yonhap) (BBC) (China Daily)
- Prosecutors begin cross examining former Liberian President Charles Taylor at his war crimes trial. (Reuters) (BBC) (AllAfrica.com)
- Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives in Cambodia to take up his new appointment as economic adviser to the Cambodian government. (Al Jazeera) (ABC News)
- A conservation group warns that the koala could be extinct within 30 years. (The Age) (3 News NZ) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Former President of French Polynesia Gaston Flosse is arrested as part of a corruption investigation. (Radio New Zealand International)
- John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, is executed in Virginia. (AP via Fox News (US))
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