Current events of 28 July 2009 (2009-07-28) (Tuesday) edit history watch

At least fifteen people die and at least 65 more disappear after a boat carrying 200 Haitian migrants sinks near the Turks and Caicos Islands. (BBC) (Daily Express) (Houston Chronicle) (Reuters) (Toronto Star) Violence in Nigeria continues as troops shell the home of Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf in Maiduguri, Borno State. (BBC) (The Miami Herald) England and Japan will stage the Rugby World Cup in 2015 and 2019 respectively. (BBC) (The Guardian) (RTÉ) (Taiwan News) (The Times) The United States and China continue the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (The Washington Post) South African police clash with about 200 protesters at an informal settlement outside Johannesburg. (BBC) Kashmiri minister Omar Abdullah resigns over claims he was involved in a sex trafficking and underage prostitution racket. (The Times) The Garda Síochána and Metropolitan Police Service in London arrest and charge three men in connection with Ireland's largest cocaine seizure in West Cork in July 2007. (RTÉ) Abdelkader Belliraj, accused of leading an Islamist militant group and committing six murders in Belgium, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Morocco. (BBC) Efforts to free two aid workers from Ireland and Uganda who were kidnapped in Darfur on 3 July are said to be "ongoing". (RTÉ) Iran releases 140 people detained in its post-election unrest as the supreme leader orders a prison where jailed protesters were killed be closed. (The Daily Telegraph) (Press TV) Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer lands in Tokyo despite anger from China. (BBC) (China Daily) (The Japan Times) Protests outside Croke Park threaten to disrupt U2's 360° Tour Gothenburg dates and several football matches. (Bloomberg) (CBC) (The Guardian) (NME) (RTÉ) (Taiwan News) AIDS campaigners and human rights groups accuse the Cambodian government of herding HIV-affected families into an "Aids colony" outside Phnom Penh. (The Guardian) Licia Nunez, a model and soap opera actress, admits meeting Silvio Berlusconi at a health spa in 2008 but denies she is a prostitute. (The Times) A national memorial is to be erected and a national day of remembrance is considered in Ireland for victims of child abuse. (Irish Examiner) The longlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize is announced. (The Guardian) Chinese scientists announce the discovery of "vampire gene", Tryp-SPc. (AsiaNews) Italian officials evacuate a newly built hospital in Agrigento in western Sicily after tests show it risked collapse in an earthquake. (BBC) 22 people are killed, 41 are injured and seven are missing after heavy rain and floods in Sichuan. (China Daily)