Unix Timestamp: 1247702400
Thursday, July 16. 2009, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Iceland's national parliament, the Althingi, votes to pursue joining the EU.ref name=HelgasonHelgason, Gudjon and Meera Selva. //news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_re_eu/eu_iceland_euIceland's parliament votes to join EU. "Yahoo! News", 16 July 2009.

Former South Korean President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae-jung is in an intensive care unit in a Seoul hospital being treated for pneumonia. //english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2009/07/16/0302000000AEN20090716006900315.HTML (Yonhap) //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8153377.stm (BBC)

Iceland votes by a narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union, after five days of debate. //english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2009/07/2009716182330577559.html (Al Jazeera) //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8153139.stm (BBC) //www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-clears-way-for-eu-bid-1749467.html ("The Independent") //www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/iceland/5843954/Iceland-approves-EU-application.html ("The Telegraph")