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Portal:Current events/2009 December 6
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December 6, 2009
(
2009-12-06
)
(Sunday)
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Flamengo
wins its sixth
Brazilian
national
football
title, following a 2-1 win over
Grêmio
in the last round of
2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
. (Globo)
Restrictions on
internet access
and foreign media are put in place ahead of the
Student's Day
in
Iran
, as former President
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
urges "freedom" in the country. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (AP)
There are violent riots and protests in
Athens
between police and protesters as the city commemorates the first anniversary of the
fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos
by a police officer. (BBC) (Sky News) (
The Guardian
)
The opposition
Democratic Progressive Party
in
Taiwan
makes large gains in local elections against the
Kuomintang
. (
Taiwan News
) (Al Jazeera) (
Daily Telegraph
)
Queen Elizabeth II
of the
United Kingdom
firmly warns
newspaper
editors in a letter to cease publication of personal pictures of the
British Royal Family
after years of being "hounded" by paparazzi. (BBC) (ABC News)
An
HIV
-positive man is accused of attempting to
intentionally infect
his wife with the virus, the first case of its kind in
New Zealand
. (
Sunday Star Times
) (BBC) (IOL) (
The Sydney Morning Herald
)
Voters in
Bolivia
go to the polls for a
general election
with
exit polls
indicating that the
President of Bolivia
Evo Morales
has won. (BBC), (AP via Google), (AFP)
Romanians
take part in the
2nd round
of a
presidential election
. (HotNews.ro) (AP)
Legislative elections
take place in
Comoros
. (Reuters) (AFP)
Archaeologists discover evidence of mass
cannibalism
in
Europe
during the
Neolithic
period at a 7,000-year-old burial site in
Germany
. (BBC)
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