February 1, 2007 (2007-02-01 ) (Thursday)
February 2, 2007 (2007-02-02 ) (Friday)
February 3, 2007 (2007-02-03 ) (Saturday)
Hassan Nasrallah , head of
Hezbollah , openly states for the first time that the governments of
Iran and
Syria are supporting Hezbollah financially, with weapons, and with training, and "everybody knows it."
(The Jerusalem Post)
Iraq War : at least 135 people are killed and 226 injured in a
truck bombing in
Baghdad
(BBC) ; five people are killed and 40 injured in
car bombs in
Kirkuk .
(BBC)
An outbreak of the deadly strain of
avian flu ,
H5N1 , is confirmed at a
Bernard Matthews turkey farm in
Holton ,
Suffolk in the United Kingdom.
(BBC)
A
State of Emergency is declared in
Bolivia after '
El Niño '-like flooding.
(NDTV)
Catania football violence : After calls from
Italian Prime Minister
Romano Prodi to cancel all matches,
Italian Football Federation commissioner
Luca Pancalli indefinitely suspends all
football matches in Italy while an investigation into riots on
February 2 , during which a 38-year-old police officer was killed and 71 people were injured, begins.
(The Guardian)
(Wikinews)
British Prime Minister
Tony Blair urges
Labour Party to 'weather the storm' during
current political crisis for the party, and that 'policies will win the next
election '.
(BBC)
The Spring Festival travel season in China begins, in which 156 million passengers will travel by train, and 2 billion bus trips are expected.
(Xinhua)
(People's Daily)
Russia investigates smelly
orange snow ,
oily to touch, which has fallen across an area of 1500 square kilometres in the
Omsk region of the country.
(BBC)
American football :
Michael Irvin ,
Thurman Thomas ,
Gene Hickerson ,
Bruce Matthews ,
Charlie Sanders and
Roger Wehrli are selected for induction into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame .
(ESPN)
February 4, 2007 (2007-02-04 ) (Sunday)
February 5, 2007 (2007-02-05 ) (Monday)
February 6, 2007 (2007-02-06 ) (Tuesday)
February 7, 2007 (2007-02-07 ) (Wednesday)
February 8, 2007 (2007-02-08 ) (Thursday)
February 9, 2007 (2007-02-09 ) (Friday)
February 10, 2007 (2007-02-10 ) (Saturday)
February 11, 2007 (2007-02-11 ) (Sunday)
UK 's
Vodafone buys 67% stake in
India 's fourth largest mobile operator,
Hutch Essar , for $11.1 billion.
(BBC)
(Economic Times)
Nine people are shot dead in
Rio de Janeiro as police battle drug gangs and private militias for control of the
favelas or shanty towns.
(BBC)
The Queen wins the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Film of 2006 with
Helen Mirren winning the award as Best Actress.
Forest Whitaker wins the Best Actor award for his role in the
The Last King of Scotland which won the Best British Film Award.
(Sydney Morning Herald) The
Dixie Chicks dominate the
2007
Grammy Awards by winning five statuettes, including
Record and
Song of the Year ("Not Ready to Make Nice").
(NME) With the completion of the "big three" music awards,
Mary J. Blige and
American Idol winner
Carrie Underwood are the only two artists this season to sweep all three major music awards (
American Music ,
Billboard Music , and
Grammy Awards ).
(Billboard)
(Yahoo Music) .
Portugal votes on an
abortion
referendum which despite failing due to low turnout, has a clear result in favor of legalizing abortion, prompting
Portuguese Prime Minister
José Sócrates to say abortion will be
legalized through the
parliament .
(BBC)
Islamist insurgency in Somalia :
An explosion at a ceremony in
Kismayo kills at least four people and injures 24 others, including senior military officers and regional leaders. General
Abdi Mahdi , the recently appointed Somali military chief, is among the injured.
(Aljazeera)
Mortar attacks in two areas of
Mogadishu kill at least five people and injure several others, a day after a
PRMLTM said it increase attacks.
(Aljazeera)
Two people die in protests in
Priština ,
Kosovo over a
United Nations plan for the future of the
Serbian province.
(BBC)
Iran :
U. S. Senator
Barack Obama (
D -
IL ) following a political rally in
Ames, Iowa , regretted saying the lives of
military personnel had been "wasted."
(Register)
(Boston Hereld) [
permanent dead link ]
Voters in
Turkmenistan vote in their
first presidential election to select a successor to former
President of Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov . Interim leader
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is widely expected to win the election.
(BBC)
Rakhat Aliyev ,
son-in-law of
Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev and First Vice Foreign Minister, is demoted to ambassador to
Austria for the second time amid accusations he stole money from Nurbank bank and alleged involvement in the
kidnapping and
murdering of two Nurbank officials.
(EurasiaNet)
A top aide to
Israeli
Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert has been suspended from her job for six months while a
corruption inquiry is conducted, officials say.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
The
National Court of Spain finds five out of six
Algerian men guilty of membership in a terrorist organization and document forgery for terrorist purposes, sentencing each of them to 13 years imprisonment. All six were acquitted of conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack
February 12, 2007 (2007-02-12 ) (Monday)
A gunman kills five people in the
Trolley Square
shopping center in
Salt Lake City, Utah , before being shot by police.
(Salt Lake Tribune) ,
(KSL-NBC) ,
(KUTV-CBS) ,
(CNN) ,
(BBC)
India 's
Hindalco Industries buys
Atlanta -based
Novelis for
US$ 6 billion.
(BusinessWeek)
(Forbes)
(NYTimes)
Approximately 60,000 people in
Mozambique are evacuated in the
Zambezi River valley due to floods caused by three weeks of heavy rain.
(BBC)
A suspicious brown substance is found in envelope at the
Virginia Supreme Court building in
Richmond, Virginia ,
United States , on the same day that
Senator
John McCain
(R -
AZ) speaks at the
Jefferson Hotel .
(Richmond Times-Dispatch)
(CBS News)
(Forbes.com)
(Fox News)
(Guardian Unlimited)
(International Herald Tribune)
Iranian
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states in an interview that Iran does not fear the
U.S. and that any foreign attack would be "severely punished".
(BBC)
United States
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs ,
Christopher R. Hill , announces that tentative agreement has been reached over
North Korean nuclear disarmament pending review by the signatories.
(CNN)
Iraq 's
High Tribunal sentences former
Vice President
Taha Yassin Ramadan to
death for his role in the 1982 killing of 148 men and boys in
Dujail following an unsuccessful
assassination attempt against
Saddam Hussein .
(CNN)
Italian police arrest in raids 15 people who the police claimed were associated with the
Red Brigades terrorist group.
(BBC)
Iraq War : At least 76 people are killed in
four bomb attacks in
Baghdad .
(BBC)
An
earthquake of a magnitude of 6.1 on the
Richter scale strikes about 160 km east of
Cabo de São Vicente ,
Portugal , at 11:36 am (
CET ).
(Bloomberg)
A
German
court orders the release of
Brigitte Mohnhaupt , a former member of the
Red Army Faction , also known as the "
Baader -
Meinhof Gang"; she has served 24 years in prison for her involvement in kidnappings and murders in the
1970s .
(CNN)
2007 Guinean general strike :
Unions in
Guinea resume a
general strike to protest the
President of Guinea
Lansana Conté appointing
Eugène Camara as
Prime Minister of Guinea . At least 17 people have died in protests over the weekend. The protest started on the morning of the 12th with a march from the centre of
Conakry to the palace. Widespread problems with armed bandits taking advantage of the insecurity have also been reported. Lansana Conté has now declared a
state of emergency .
(Reuters)
(SOS)
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
China 's
trade surplus increases by 67%, increasing pressure on the
government to
float the
yuan .
(BBC)
The
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society claims that one of its ships has collided with a
Japanese
whaling vessel in the
Ross Sea , leading to the Japanese vessel lodging a
distress call .
(Sydney Morning Herald)
Islamist insurgency in Somalia : Five
mortar bombs explode in
Mogadishu , killing at least three people.
(Reuters)
Four state-owned enterprises of the
Republic of China (
Taiwan )—
Chunghwa Post , the
Chinese Petroleum Corporation , the
China Shipbuilding Corporation , and the
Central Bank of China —change their names to remove "
China " from their titles at the request of
President
Chen Shui-bian . The decision is condemned by the
Pan-Blue Coalition , the
United States and
People's Republic of China as a move towards
Taiwan independence .
(CNN)
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
Israel has carried out a successful test of its
Arrow missile , the
defence ministry says.
(BBC)
Australian
Prime Minister
John Howard criticizes
U.S. Senator
Barack Obama (
D -
IL ) for his stance on
Iraq , saying that
al-Qaeda in Iraq should be praying for Obama to win
the election . The
opposition
Australian Labor Party says that Howard's statement imperiled the
relationship Australia might have with the
United States under a
Democratic administration.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
February 13, 2007 (2007-02-13 ) (Tuesday)
The
TGV beats the record of the
world's fastest conventional train with a speed of 553 km/h (344 mph) reached during a test run on the
LGV Est .
(Le Vif / L'Express) [
permanent dead link ]
Iraq War :
Dutch
oil -trading company
Trafigura agrees to pay the
Côte d'Ivoire
government
$ 198 million to clean up a
2006 toxic waste spill which led to the deaths of 10 people.
(BBC)
Iranian
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says
his administration is open to negotiations regarding its
nuclear program .
(BBC)
2008 United States presidential election : Former
Governor of Massachusetts
Mitt Romney (
R ) formally announces his candidacy for
president .
(CNN)
A
tornado strikes
New Orleans ,
Louisiana leaving one dead and three people injured.
(CNN)
A small business jet heading to
Berlin ,
Germany crashes during take-off at
Vnukovo airport in
Moscow ,
Russia .
(Interfax) ,
(BBC) [
permanent dead link ]
Ma Ying-jeou , the party chairman of the
Kuomintang , resigns after being indicted by the
Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of
embezzlement during his tenure as the
mayor of Taipei .
(Taipei Times News)
Fatmir Rexhepi [
sq ] , the Interior Minister of
Kosovo , resigns after two people died in recent protests.
(AKI) [
permanent dead link ]
Japan holds an international conference to push for the resumption of commercial
whaling . Anti-whaling nations in the
International Whaling Commission such as the
United States ,
United Kingdom and
Australia have
boycotted the conference.
(AP via AHT)
At least three people have been killed in bomb blasts that hit two buses in the village of
Bikfaya near
Beirut, Lebanon .
(BBC)
(ITV)
The
World Bank has approved construction of the
Baglihar Dam on the
Chenab River in
Indian -administered
Kashmir .
(BBC)
February 14, 2007 (2007-02-14 ) (Wednesday)
The
United States
redeploys the
173rd Airborne Brigade to
Afghanistan to prepare for an anticipated spring offensive by the
Taliban .
(CNN)
Bombay Stock Exchange sells 5 percent stake to
Germany 's
Deutsche Börse .
(International Herald Tribune)
(Reuters)
(Forbes)
The
Parliament of Serbia rejects a
United Nations plan for the independence of
Kosovo .
(BBC)
United States Senate election, 2008 : Author and
comedian
Al Franken announces his candidacy for
Senator of
Minnesota .
(CNN)
Vodafone 's
Chief Executive ,
Arun Sarin , says the company will spend
US$ 2 billion to enhance its investments in
India .
(Forbes)
(BusinessWeek)
Mid-February winter storm : A major
weather system reaches the
Northeastern United States and eastern
Canada and hammers the region with
snow and ice . The same system is responsible for severe weather in the
Midwest and a
tornado in
New Orleans, Louisiana .
(AP via CBS News)
Iraq War :
The
European parliament has approved a report on secret
CIA flights which condemns
member states that allowed the operations.
(BBC)
Tens of thousands rally in
Beirut, Lebanon to mark the second anniversary of the killing of former
Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri .
(BBC )
Leaders of the
Anglican Church meet in
Tanzania with a possibility of a
schism over the issue of
homosexual
clergy .
(BBC)
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is sworn in as
President of Turkmenistan .
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
The foreign ministers of
China ,
India and
Russia meet in
New Delhi, India to discuss greater cooperation between the three
Asian countries on issues including
terrorism ,
drug trafficking and
Afghanistan .
(BBC)
(Forbes)
A bus belonging to
Iran 's
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has been hit by a
car bomb in
Zahedan killing 18 people.
(Reuters via ABC Australia)
The
World Food Program predicts that 285,000 people in
Mozambique will require food aid after severe
flooding .
(BBC)
Georgina Beyer , the world's first
transgendered member of parliament, resigns from the
Parliament of New Zealand .
(NZ Herald)
February 15, 2007 (2007-02-15 ) (Thursday)
Democratic Party officials in the
U.S. Congress have warned
President
Bush that he does not have the authority to
go to war with
Iran .
(BBC)
Abu Ayyub al-Masri , the leader of
al-Qaeda in Iraq , has been wounded in fighting in
Baghdad according to Arab TV stations.
(BBC)
Six
Colombian legislators are arrested due to alleged links to
paramilitary groups including Senator
Álvaro Araújo , the brother of Foreign Minister
María Consuelo Araújo .
(BBC)
Former U. S. Vice President
Al Gore announces plans for
Live Earth concerts across seven
continents in July 2007 to raise awareness of
global warming .
(Washington Post)
The
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon ;clams that the
Sudanese government had broken a promise to allow a human rights mission into
Darfur .
(Reuters Alertnet)
An
Air Mauritania plane with 79 people on board is
hijacked , and lands safely.
(BBC)
The
Iranian government says members of
Jundallah were responsible for
yesterday's attack in Zahedan, Iran . An Iranian lawmaker accuses the
Pakistani government of harboring Jundallah militants.
(Gulf Times)
The
Hamas -led
Palestinian government has resigned to make way for a new administration. The
Palestinian Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh remains as caretaker Prime Minister and will select a new
cabinet .
(Reuters/AFP via ABC Online Australia)
South Korea agrees to resume high level talks with
North Korea following the deal over
North Korea's nuclear program .
(AFP via ABC Online) [
permanent dead link ]
The
United States will build a military communications facility near
Geraldton, Western Australia .
(AP via IHT)
The
Foreign Minister of China ,
Li Zhaoxing , is visiting
Japan hoping to improve bilateral relations between the nations. The
Chinese Prime Minister
Wen Jiabao will visit Japan in April.
(BBC)
Chris Ellison , the
Australian Minister for Justice, warns anti-whaling
protesters and the
Japanese
whaling fleet that they could face questioning over recent clashes in the
Southern Ocean . Meanwhile, the crew were evacuated from the largest ship in the Japanese
Antarctic fleet, the
Nisshin Maru , following a fire.
(ABC News Australia Online)
The trial of 29 suspects in relation to the
2004 Madrid train bombings begins in
Madrid, Spain .
(BBC)
The
European Union plans to set up a single
hotline for parents to report missing children.
(BBC)
February 16, 2007 (2007-02-16 ) (Friday)
The
G8 countries, plus
Brazil ,
China ,
India ,
Mexico and
South Africa , approve the '
Washington Declaration ,' proposing a global
Carbon emissions trading system to replace the
Kyoto Protocol by
2009 .
(BBC)
Palestinians clash with
Israeli police in
East Jerusalem over archaeological excavations near the
al-Aqsa mosque .
(Reuters via ABC Australia Online)
Jundallah militants set off a second bomb in
Zahedan , Iran. Firefights with Iranian police ensue. Casualties are unknown.
(CBS News)
A
Turkish court sentences seven convicted
Al Qaeda associates to
life imprisonment for their involvement in the
2003 Istanbul bombings .
(AFP via ABC Australia Online)
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari is charged in
New York, New York with financing
terrorism and material support of terrorism for allegedly passing on money for a
training camp in
Afghanistan .
(AP via IHT)
General Motors is rumored to be in talks to buy
DaimlerChrysler AG's struggling
Chrysler Group in its entirety.
(CNN)
The
United States House of Representatives passes House
Concurrent Resolution 63; a
non-binding resolution criticising
U.S. President
George W. Bush 's
Surge Plan in
Iraq .
(BBC)
(Clerk.House.gov)
An
Italian judge has ordered 26
U.S. citizens, most of them
CIA agents, to stand trial over the
kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in
Milan in
2003 .
(BBC)
Abu Ayyub al-Masri , the current leader of
al-Qaeda in Iraq , has been wounded in fighting in
Baghdad according to Arab TV stations; however, the U.S. government denied the report.
(BBC)
The
President of Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai meets with the
Prime Minister of Italy
Romano Prodi to discuss Italian contributions to the fight against the
Taliban and
drug traffickers in
Afghanistan .
(BBC)
Singer
Britney Spears controversially shaves her head.
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February 17, 2007 (2007-02-17 ) (Saturday)
February 18, 2007 (2007-02-18 ) (Sunday)
February 19, 2007 (2007-02-19 ) (Monday)
Three
Salvadoran deputies to the
Central American Parliament from the ruling
ARENA party
are killed execution-style in
Guatemala City . One of the dead is the son of former
president and party founder
Roberto D'Aubuisson .
(BBC)
Between 40,000 to 100,000
Italians march in
protest against the extension of
Caserma Ederle , a
United States Army
military base near
Vicenza .
(BBC)
The
U.S. moves forward with plans to base a missile shield for
National Missile Defense in the
Czech Republic and
Poland . In response,
Russian officials have claimed they may target the two
Eastern European countries. The Russians also claimed they could pull out of the 1987
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty .
(International Herald Tribune)
Colombian foreign minister
María Consuelo Araújo resigns days after the arrest of her brother,
Senator
Álvaro Araújo , in the country's ongoing
para-political scandal .
President
Álvaro Uribe Vélez appoints
Fernando Araújo as the new Minister.
(BBC) .
(El Tiempo)
Also in
Colombia the
Nevado del Huila , the country's highest volcano, has showed increasing seismic activity including a cloud of ash. A high state of alert is in place for 4 departments.
(El Tiempo)
A man is arrested over a series of
letterbomb attacks that occurred in
Britain during the past few weeks.
(The Times)
A
truth commission is set up by
East Timor and
Indonesia to promote reconciliation after the violence surrounding the 1999 independence
referendum .
(BBC)
Iraq War :
Samjhauta Express bombings : At least 66 people die in bomb blasts on the
Samjhauta Express travelling from
India to
Pakistan . The blasts occurred near Deewana, 80 kilometres north of
New Delhi .
(DNA)
(Reuters Alertnet)
(AP via CNN)
(Reuters via the Star Online)
United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice meets with the
Prime Minister of Israel
Ehud Olmert and the
President of the Palestinian National Authority
Mahmoud Abbas .
(BBC)
New Jersey becomes the third
U.S. state to offer
civil unions to
homosexual couples, including all the rights and responsibilities of
heterosexual
marriage .
(NY Times)
February 20, 2007 (2007-02-20 ) (Tuesday)
The
United Nations Security Council unanimously approves an
African Union force to help stabilise
Somalia .
(AP via the Guardian)
The
Kazakh Foreign Ministry denies
Kazakhstan has a
nuclear program, saying all alleged active nuclear sites were from the
Soviet era.
(Kazinform)
Felix Kulov , former
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan , breaks his political alliance with
President
Kurmanbek Bakiyev . Kulov forms the
United Front for a Worthy Future for Kyrgyzstan with
Ar-Namys and other political parties.
(RFE/RL)
Iran :
At least 35 people have died and up to 340,000 are affected by
flooding after months of heavy rain in
Bolivia . The eastern
departments of
Santa Cruz and
Beni are the worst affected.
(BBC)
The
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules 2-1 to uphold an act of the
109th Congress removing the right of
Guantánamo Bay detainees to challenge their detention in lower federal courts. The
Military Commissions Act suspends the right to
habeas corpus and bars anyone deemed an "
enemy combatant " access to the
federal courts .
(Miami Herald)
(Reuters)
Zilla Huma Usman , minister for
social welfare of
Punjab province ,
Pakistan , is
assassinated near
Lahore by
Mohammed Sarwar for not wearing a
hijab and campaigning for
women's emancipation .
(The Times)
(FOX)
A river boat carrying children on a school trip on the
Periyar River in southern
India capsizes, killing at least 18 students and four teachers.
(AP via CNN)
Kraft Foods announces plans to close up to 20 production facilities and
cut up to 8,000 jobs worldwide.
(AP via ABC News)
Australia announces plans to ban
incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more
energy efficient
fluorescent bulbs.
(BBC)
Global Spread of H5N1 : Cases of
avian flu are confirmed at two chicken farms near
Moscow ,
Russia . Villages are
quarantined until
prescriptions can be filled.
(The Times)
Anglican
archbishops give the
U.S. church an
ultimatum over its approach to issues such as
homosexual clergy and blessings of
same-sex marriages .
(BBC)
A powerful
earthquake in northeastern
Indonesia sparks a
tsunami warning.
(AP via IHT)
Volvo AB agrees to buy truckmaker
Nissan Diesel for
$ 1.1 billion.
(Bloomberg)
NATO troops in
Bosnia-Herzegovina carry out early morning raids on the houses of the children of convicted
war criminal
Radovan Karadžić .
(BBC)
Vice President of the United States
Dick Cheney visits
Japan to discuss regional security issues and
Iraq .
(BBC)
In
Nuevo Laredo ,
Mexico , Horacio Garza, a federal congressman for the PRI, is seriously wounded by gunmen, and his driver killed.
(BBC)
February 21, 2007 (2007-02-21 ) (Wednesday)
February 22, 2007 (2007-02-22 ) (Thursday)
February 23, 2007 (2007-02-23 ) (Friday)
February 24, 2007 (2007-02-24 ) (Saturday)
February 25, 2007 (2007-02-25 ) (Sunday)
Iran's Nuclear Program : Ministers from Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, as well as Turkey's
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu , the secretary general of the
Organisation of the Islamic Conference , a 57-member bloc of Islamic states, held a meeting
Islamabad ,
Pakistan to discuss resolution of the Palestinian problem and the stand-off over Iran's nuclear program.
(Reuters India) [
permanent dead link ] (Tehran Times)
79th Academy Awards :
The Departed wins four
Academy Awards including
Best Picture and
Best Director for
Martin Scorsese .
Helen Mirren wins the
Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in
The Queen .
Forest Whitaker won the
Academy Award for Best Actor for playing
Idi Amin in
The Last King of Scotland .
Alan Arkin won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in
Little Miss Sunshine with
Jennifer Hudson winning the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in
Dreamgirls .
(Sydney Morning Herald)
Pirates hijack the
MV Rozen as it departed
Somalia after delivering
United Nations
food aid .
(FOX)
Israeli
forces carry out a
raid across parts of the
West Bank town of
Nablus .
(BBC)
Iraq :
Prime Minister of East Timor
José Ramos-Horta announces he is running for
president .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Iran successfully launches its first
suborbital
sounding rocket .
(Gulf News)
(AFP)
Voters in
Senegal
go to the polls to elect their next
president , with incumbent
Abdoulaye Wade facing a range of challengers including two former
Prime Ministers :
Moustapha Niasse and
Idrissa Seck .
(BBC)
The
Levina 1 , which caught fire on the 22nd, sinks, killing at least one more person.
(WHDH-TV)
February 26, 2007 (2007-02-26 ) (Monday)
February 27, 2007 (2007-02-27 ) (Tuesday)
In
Senegal , unofficial results from government sources indicate that
incumbent
President
Abdoulaye Wade has won the
2007 presidential election with more than 50% of the votes.
(CNN)
Richard M. Daley , the
Mayor of Chicago , is elected for his sixth term. If he serves the length of this term, he will become the longest serving mayor of
Chicago , surpassing his father
Richard J. Daley .
(NBC Chicago)
The
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego ,
California announces plans to file for
bankruptcy to put off 140
civil lawsuits related to alleged
sexual abuse by
priests .
(AP via Daily Comet)
Canada 's
House of Commons votes not to extend provisions of its anti-terrorism legislation that allows for preventative arrests and forced testimony.
(FOX)
After rumours that authorities were going to raise interest rates in an attempt to curb inflation, the
SSE Composite Index of the
Shanghai Stock Exchange tumbles 9% from unexpected selloffs, the largest drop in 10 years, triggering major drops in worldwide stock markets.
(Forbes)
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
After the Chinese market drop, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States drops 416 points amid fears for growth prospects, the biggest one-day slide since the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . Sell orders are made so fast that a second analysis computer has to be used, causing an instantaneous 200-point drop at one point.
(Reuters)
Advisers to the
Food and Drug Administration recommend that the agency approve a
Sanofi-Aventis SA
bird flu
vaccine .
(Bloomberg)
Israel Defence Forces withdraw from the
West Bank town of
Nablus , three days after a raid to arrest suspected militants.
(ABC) [
permanent dead link ]
2007 Bagram Air Base bombing : A
suicide attack at
Bagram Air Base while
Vice President of the United States
Dick Cheney is visiting kills 23, but the Vice President is not injured. The
Taliban claims responsibility, and declares that Cheney was their
intended target .
(Bloomberg)
(CNN)
North Korea and
South Korea meet at a ministerial level for the first time since the conclusion of
six-party talks about the
North Korean nuclear weapons program .
(BBC)
The
ambassadors from the
United States and
Italy to
Sri Lanka are injured by
mortar fire while visiting eastern Sri Lanka.
(CNN)
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
Michael Somare removes
Minister for Defence
Martin Aini from office over the
Julian Moti affair.
(News Limited)
Drought in southwestern
China is threatening the drinking
water supply of 1.5 million people.
(Reuters via CNN)
A
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March 15 .
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Guinean general strike, 2007 : Unions declare the
strike over and urge workers to return to their jobs, following
President
Lansana Conté 's appointment of a
Prime Minister acceptable to them.
(BBC)
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homeless .
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Marthinus van Schalkwyk , the
South African Minister for the Environment, releases a plan to control the
elephant population which contains
culling as a last resort.
(New York Times)
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AZ) announces his candidacy for
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Bosnia-Herzegovina .
(BBC)
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Xinjiang ,
China , killing four and injuring 30 more.
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Cuban government .
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Two
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Pablo Picasso ,
Maya with Doll and
Jacqueline , have been stolen from the
painter 's granddaughter's apartment in
Paris ,
France .
(The Times)
Iraq War : A
car bomb kills at least 10 people in
Baghdad .
(AP via Washington Post)
Japan abandons its
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Southern Ocean for this year due to the damage caused to the
Nisshin Maru .
(ABC)
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Sri Lanka
Navy kills at least fifteen members of the
Tamil Tigers as they try to infiltrate the port of
Trincomalee .
(AP via the Hindu)
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Thailand
Pridiyathorn Devakula resigns over differences of opinion with the
Prime Minister of Thailand
Surayud Chulanont .
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