Portal:Current events/2008 October 16

October 16, 2008 (Thursday)

An earthquake of Richter scale 6.5 magnitude strikes the Pacific coasts of Guatemala and Mexico. (Reuters)
An explosion at a coal mine in Shizuishan city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China results in at least 16 deaths. (AP via IHT)
2008 Cambodian-Thai stand-off: Cambodia and Thailand agree to joint border controls following a recent clash. (AFP via the Sydney Morning Herald)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency sets a new standard, cutting the amount of lead that can be released into the atmosphere by 90 percent. (CNN)
United States economy
- The United States consumer price index remains unchanged during September as falling costs for clothes, gasoline and new cars helped to offset rising food and medical prices. (AP via CNN)^{[permanent dead link]}
- Industrial production in the United States falls by 2.8% due to the impact of hurricanes, a strike at Boeing and the credit crunch. (Bloomberg)
Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan wins an 89.04 percent landslide victory in the Azerbaijani presidential election to get re-elected. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe criticizes the elections, though it notes progress. (CNN) (OSCE/ODIHR)
2008 British Columbia pipeline bombings: A second blast hits a gas pipeline in northern British Columbia near the town of Dawson Creek. (CBC)