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Current events of August 24, 2009 (2009-08-24) (Monday)

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According to court documents, the Los Angeles County coroner's preliminary assessment is that Michael Jackson's death was caused by an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.(Reuters)
The district court in Stockholm orders BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay's largest ISP, Black Internet, to stop serving the website's traffic.(CNET News)
Sweden's TeliaSonera AB announces cash offers worth around $687.7 million in total for shares it doesn't already own in Baltic operators Teo LT and Eesti Telekom. (The Wall Street Journal)
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears on television for the first time in more than a year. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
Thieves kill an endangered Sumatran Tiger in an Indonesian zoo and steal its body, leaving its intestines behind. (BBC) (Jakarta Globe)
Ireland's Green Party and gay rights organisations defend plans to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples following criticism of the move by Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. (The Irish Times)
China is to try 200 people suspected of their involvement in the Ürümqi riots last month. (GBC) (Associated Press) (Press TV)
Two mass graves containing the remains of communist soldiers dating from the Vietnam War are discovered in central Vietnam. (The Straits Times) (China Daily)
A Malaysian Muslim woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who was convicted of drinking alcohol, is granted a reprieve until after Ramadan. (Al Jazeera) (Bernama) (Xinhua) (IOL)
Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill defends his decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua)
Kenya's fifth national census takes place. (KBC) (BBC) (The Nation) (Associated Press)
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara who seized power in a military coup in Guinea, refuses to rule out standing for President, after previously promising not to. (BBC) (AFP) (IOL)
At least 200 children are killed and around 900 hospitalised by Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, India. (BBC)
Baitullah Mehsud is confirmed dead by leaders of Pakistan's Taliban. (Associated Press)

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