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December 3, 2009 (Thursday)
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures deposits in United States commercial banks, is running a deficit of $US8.2 billion. (New York Times)
- The Royal Netherlands Navy seizes 13 Somali pirates and frees two Tanzanians from a vessel that attacked a German ship off the southern cost of Oman. (Reuters South Africa) (AP) (IOL)
- Nigerian farmers sue Shell at a court in The Hague over claims that the oil firm polluted their land in the Niger Delta region. (NEXT) (Forbes) (The Independent)
- A further five people are sentenced to death over their involvement in the July riots in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, in northwestern China. (Global Times) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Indian activists mark the 25th anniversary of the industrial disaster that took place in Bhopal which led to 3,787 deaths. (IBN Live) (Times of India) (The Times)
- Three Somali cabinet ministers are amongst dozens killed in a bomb blast at a university graduation ceremony at a hotel in Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera) (CCTV) (AFP)
- Three Iranian pilgrims are killed after their bus exploded at a petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus. (The Guardian) (BBC) (Alalam News Network)
- Nathan Rees is replaced as leader of the New South Wales Australian Labor Party and Premier of New South Wales by Kristina Keneally. (Sydney Morning Herald)
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