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| 2009 July 5 |
| | | Riots break out in Urumchi, in northwest China, in hostilities between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese | |
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| 2009 August 20 |
| | | Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted in 2001 for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, is released as being terminally ill and returns from Scotland to Libya | |
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| 2009 October 2 |
| | | The Treaty of Lisbon, rejected by the Irish people in 2008, is approved in a second referendum | |
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| 2009 November 3 |
| | | The Czech Republic becomes the final member state of the European Union to approve the Lisbon Treaty, completing the process of ratification | |
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| 2009 November 19 |
| | | Herman van Rompuy, the prime minister of Belgium, is voted the first full-time president of the European Council | |
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| 2009 November 20 |
| | | CERN restarts the Large Hadron Collider, which has been shut down since a serious failure in Sepember 2008 | |
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| 2009 November 20 |
| | | Global stock markets fall when Dubai seems in danger of being unable to service its massive $80 billion of debt | |
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| 2009 December 1 |
| | | The Treaty of Lisbon is passed into law in the European Union | |
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| 2009 December 14 |
| | | Abu Dhabi provides Dubai with $10 billion of debt relief, reducing the threat of a new major financial crisis | |
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| 2010 January 4 |
| | | The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is inaugurated, entering the record books as the world tallest building at 828 m (2717 ft) | |
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