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March 3, 2009 (Tuesday)

National People's Assembly Speaker Raimundo Pereira becomes Guinea-Bissau's interim President following the assassination of João Bernardo Vieira. (Reuters)
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Turkey's government violated the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation by seizing its land and fines it €105,000. (Reuters)
The 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference's National Committee begins its annual session with a focus on the global financial crisis. (Xinhua News)
Former Yukos businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky again stands trial for alleged financial crimes. (Moscow Times)
Seven Sri Lankan cricket players are wounded and six policemen killed in shootings near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. (Sky News) (BBC)
United States President Barack Obama and United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown meet at the White House. (BBC)
Three people are believed trapped after Cologne's municipal archives building collapses. (Spiegel)
German frigate Rheinland-Pfalz foils a Somali pirate attack on a German container ship in the Gulf of Aden. (Deutsche Welle)

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