Portal:Current events/2008 September 20
September 20, 2008 (Saturday)
- A fire in a nightclub in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen results in 43 dead and another 51 injured. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- The Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army has launched a surprise offensive in Southern Sudan hitting an army base and villages in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC News)
- Residents of Galveston Island, Texas are advised that they can return home next Wednesday but there will be little or no services after Hurricane Ike destroyed much of the town. (CNN)
- The Bush administration asks the United States Congress for $700 billion to buy mortgage-related assets to try to resolve the subprime mortgage crisis. (AP via USA Today)
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- A suicide bomber attacks a Pakistan Army convoy, killing eight soldiers. (France 24)[permanent dead link]
- The 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing occurs. (AP via Google News)
- South African President Thabo Mbeki agrees to resign after the ruling African National Congress requested him to step down.(Reuters Africa via Google News)
- Pakistan detains 13 Indian fishermen after they drifted in Pakistani waters. (Press Trust of India)