Current events of 23 April 2009 (2009-04-23) (Thursday) edit history watch

General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. (AP via Miami Herald) The Taliban's Students' Movement captures Buner District in Pakistan. (WSJ) Judge Tomas Norström of The Pirate Bay's trial is revealed to be a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several entertainment industry representatives. (TT via The Local) India's general election begins its second of five phases. (BBC) The International Monetary Fund forecasts that the world economy will not recover until 2010. (CNN) Prime Minister of Lesotho Pakalitha Mosisili survives an apparent assassination attempt. (BBC) Two suicide attacks near Baqubah and in Baghdad, Iraq, kill at least 87 people. (CNN) Iraq's government calculates that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003. (AP)