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| 2009 March 4 |
| | | The International Criminal Court in the Hague issues a warrant for the arrest of the Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on a charge of war crimes | |
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| 2009 April 5 |
| | | A major earthquake around L'Aquila, in Italy, kills more than 300 people after experts advise local people that it is safe to stay at home | |
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| 2009 April 7 |
| | | Peru's Supreme Court finds Alberto Fujimori guilty of authorizing death squads and sentences him to 25 years in prison | |
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| 2009 May 18 |
| | | The long civil war in Sri Lanka ends with the conclusive defeat of the Tamil Tigers by government forces | |
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| 2009 May 21 |
| | | North Korea announces that it has carried out a second successful nuclear test | |
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| 2009 June 11 |
| | | The World Health Organization declares that "swine flu" (strain H1N1, spreading from Mexico), has reached the status of a pandemic | |
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| 2009 June 12 |
| | | Iran's declaration that its presidential election has been a landslide victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brings vast crowds of protesters onto the streets | |
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| 2009 June 25 |
| | | The sudden death of the pop star Michael Jackson triggers a world-wide emotional response | |
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| 2009 June 29 |
| | | Iran's Guardian Council decrees that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election was valid, amid increasingly strong crackdown on any sign of dissent | |
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| 2009 July 5 |
| | | Riots break out in Urumchi, in northwest China, in hostilities between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese | |
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