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| 2006 |
| | | The US Supreme Court rules that the military courts set up to try detainees in Guantanamo Bay are illegal | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After 49 years as president of Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns for reasons of ill health | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The National Assembly elects Fidel Castro's brother Raúl to succeed him as president of Cuba | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Hurricane Hanna causes more than 500 deaths in Haiti before moving on west to the United States (where it kills 7) | |
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| 2009 January 22 |
| | | One of President Obama's first acts in office is to sign an order that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is to be closed within a year (a promise that fails to be fulfilled) | |
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| 2010 January 12 |
| | | Haiti is devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, causing more than 230,000 deaths | |
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| 2010 July 15 |
| | | BP announces that a newly fitted cap has finally stopped the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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| 2010 August 3 |
| | | US Federal estimates are that more than 200 million gallons of oil have spilled into the sea from the Deepwater Horizon disaster (the Exxon Valdez figure was 11 million) | |
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| 2012 October 30 |
| | | Superstorm Sandy, after devastating much of the Caribbean, reaches the east coast of the USA, killing more than 100 people | |
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