Around the World (October 21, 2008)

[Kamal_Farran]

***GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2008***
The International Monetary Fund approves a $2.1 billion loan to Iceland to help alleviate its financial crisis. The approval marks the first time that a Western European nation has secured an IMF loan since the United Kingdom in 1976. Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark lend Iceland an additional €1.66 billion.
http://www.france24.com/en/20081120-imf-21-billion-dollar-loan-iceland-financial-crisis-recession
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gReGLF_OPm1I2I4rPMDG1CT26PgAD94IG3D80

Executives of the top three U.S. automakers – Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler – testify before Congress for a bailout package.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gbjFY-o07QeryRxtFR3oC1w_v1PwD94IHSG01

French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën announces plans to cut 2,700 jobs due to falling demand in Europe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7739194.stm


***PIRACY IN SOMALIA***
The Indian Navy receives permission from the Somalian government to enter its territorial waters in pursuit of pirates.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/india-gets-the-right-of-hot-pursuit-in-somali-waters/78607-3.html?from=rssfeed

The Russian Navy will deploy more warships in the Gulf of Aden to curb piracy.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gi-T2-rcbyVfRKs64Dw3GHWeVyiw


***OTHER NEWS***
The Swedish Parliament ratifies the Treaty of Lisbon.
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1042&a=854257
http://www.riksdagen.se/Webbnav/index.aspx?nid=7160&datum=11/20/2008#3948

At least one person is dead and twenty injured after a bomb is thrown into a People's Alliance for Democracy protest compound in Bangkok, Thailand.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/20/2425058.htm?section=world

Colombia - Not Time for a Trade Deal
US Congress Should Press for Sustained Results on Human Rights, Anti-Union Violence
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/11/20/colombia-not-time-trade-deal

Five Guantánamo Bay detainees who successfully argued in the Supreme Court case of Boumediene v. Bush are ordered freed by a federal district court in Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/us/21guantanamo.html

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter discovers evidence of enormous underground deposits of water ice on Mars. One such deposit, under Hellas Planitia, is estimated to be the size of Los Angeles.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081120190638.m7e37xl7&show_article=1

“People’s Power” (“The Battle of Chile III”) screened in London
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/peoples_power_screened_in_london.htm

United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapses while giving a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15842.html


***EXPECTED TOMORROW***
APEC Peru 2008 Summit in Lima.


***YOUTUBE TODAY***
How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8