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- Convicted murderer Annika Östberg is transferred to Sweden from California's Institution for Women. (The Local)
- Six car bombs kill at least 34 people and injure 139 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (AFP via News Limited)
- A "significant explosive event" occurs at the Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska. (KTUU)
- At least 207 people are killed and 1,500 injured during a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near L'Aquila, Italy. (CNN)
- Afghanistan's government will review a recently approved version of sharia law that legalizes spousal rape. (CNN)
- Gjorge Ivanov of VMRO–DPMNE wins Macedonia's presidential election. (BBC)
- Somali pirates hijack five ships from the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Germany, France, and Yemen. (CNN) (BBC)
- Indonesia's National Police shoot nine demonstrators at a pre-election protest in Nabire, West Papua. (ABC)
- At least 100 people die during a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near L'Aquila, Italy. (Sky News)
- Following a deal with the Swedish government, convicted police murderer Annika Östberg Deasy is released from California Institution for Women in Corona, California.(Expressen)
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- Approximately 30,000 people riot in Chişinău, Moldova after alleged rigged election. The Parliament is taken over, and the authorities have shut down the phone lines, internet and any communication lines.
- Israeli police kill Palestinian who "drove his car toward the(m) and lightly wounded three of them in the legs ...An officer ... then shot in his direction and killed him." (Al Jazeera)
- United States District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan overturns the conviction of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. (CNN)
- Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is convicted of violating human rights and sentenced to 25 years in jail. (Washington Post)
- Malaysia holds by-elections in Bukit Selambau, Bukit Gantag, and Batang Ai. (BBC)
- Two people are killed and two injured in a shooting in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. (BBC)
- Twenty-four people are killed as a Fokker F27 airliner crashes in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. (Sky News)
- French police raid the Basque Homeland and Freedom's "bomb factory" in Grenoble, Isère. (BBC)
- Australia's government announces a US$30-billion investment for the National Broadband Network. (BBC)
- The General Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage in Vermont, United States. (Burlington Free Press)
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