March 1, 2007 (2007-03-01 ) (Thursday)
March 2, 2007 (2007-03-02 ) (Friday)
Protestors set cars and barricades on fire in
Copenhagen over evictions.
(Fox News)
Italian leader
Romano Prodi is reinstated as prime minister after winning his second and final confidence vote in the
Parliament , ending a political crisis that began last week when Prodi resigned after losing a foreign policy vote.
(CNN)
Cuban foreign minister
Felipe Pérez Roque claims leader
Fidel Castro is recovering from his illness and could come back to lead Cuba again.
(CNN)
The
Bush administration selects a design from the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a new generation of
nuclear warheads that could replace the
Trident missile on
submarines by
2012 .
(AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Prices at the
New York Stock Exchange and
Toronto Stock Exchange continue to drop after a massive sell-off earlier in the week.
(CBC)
The
Parliament of Chechnya appoints
Ramzan Kadyrov as the
President of Chechnya after his nomination by the
President of Russia
Vladimir Putin .
(BBC)
The
United States Secretary of the Army
Francis J. Harvey resigns over poor conditions at the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center .
President Bush later orders a full review of health care available to returning soldiers.
(New York Times)
A bus carrying the baseball team of
Bluffton University plunges off an overpass onto
Interstate 75 near
Atlanta ,
Georgia , killing six including four students.
(CNN)
Puerto Rico institutes a
smoking ban in all public places. Smoking will only be allowed in homes, places dedicated to tobacco sales, and open and ventilated places.
(El Nuevo Día)
A bomb explodes near a car carrying a judge of the
Pakistani anti-terrorist court,
Mian Bashir Bhatti , wounding him and killing at least three others.
(AP via IHT)
Indonesia declares the deaths of the
Balibo Five to be a closed case despite a
New South Wales coronial inquest into their deaths in
Balibo ,
East Timor in
1975 .
(News Limited)
The
Communist Party of China expels nine senior officials and
business leaders over a
Shanghai corruption scandal related to misuse of Government pension funds. The nine people will also face criminal charges.
(BBC)
The
Attorney General for England and Wales ,
Lord Goldsmith , obtains an injunction from the
High Court preventing the
BBC from broadcasting an item about investigations into an alleged
cash for honours political scandal.
(BBC)
March 3, 2007 (2007-03-03 ) (Saturday)
March 4, 2007 (2007-03-04 ) (Sunday)
March 5, 2007 (2007-03-05 ) (Monday)
March 6, 2007 (2007-03-06 ) (Tuesday)
March 7, 2007 (2007-03-07 ) (Wednesday)
Reform of the House of Lords : In a
British House of Commons vote, a majority of MPs express support for a fully elected
House of Lords . A smaller majority support an 80% elected, 20% appointed chamber. Other options with a lower elected component are rejected. The proposals were put forward by
Leader of the House of Commons
Jack Straw , who describes the votes as "a historic step forward".
(BBC)
(Telegraph)
Archived 2007-03-16 at the
Wayback Machine
(AP via Boston Globe)
At least 30
Shia pilgrims heading to the city of
Karbala for
Arbaeen die as a
suicide bomber attacks a
café in
Balad Ruz in
Iraq 's eastern
Diyala Governorate .
(BBC)
Three
Jordanians go on trial for plotting to
assassinate
U.S. President
George W. Bush .
(Al-Bawaba)
The
People's Republic of China announces that its first
probe to the
Moon ,
Chang'e 1 , will be launched later in
2007 , with the eventual goal of landing a man on the moon by
2022 . The probe is supposed to orbit the Moon at least three times. (
BBC )
President of
Mauritius
Anerood Jugnauth threatens to leave the
Commonwealth of Nations over the
British government 's treatment of the
Îlois of the
Chagos Archipelago .
(BBC)
Foreign Minister of Iran
Manouchehr Mottaki confirms that Iran will attend a conference on
Iraq featuring
Iraq's neighbours and the permanent members of the
United Nations Security Council .
(Dow Jones via NASDAQ)
The
Israel Defence Forces raid the
Palestinian Authority 's
military intelligence headquarters in
Ramallah .
(AFP via News Limited)
(AlJazeera)
The
Taliban claim that they have
kidnapped Daniele Mastrogiacomo, an
Italian
journalist working for
La Repubblica
newspaper .
(Washington Post)
Rogerio Lobato, former Interior Minister of
East Timor , is found guilty on five counts of arming hit squads during
civil unrest in 2006 .
(The Melbourne Age)
Voters in
Northern Ireland go to the polls to
elect new members to the
Northern Ireland Assembly .
(BBC)
(BreakingNews.ie)
Garuda Indonesia
Flight 200 crashes and catches fire during a landing in
Yogyakarta ,
Indonesia resulting in 21 confirmed deaths.
(The Age)
(CNN)
(ABC News Australia) [
permanent dead link ]
The
United States Department of State issues a report saying that
human rights in
Fiji have sharply deteriorated since the
2006 coup .
(NZ Herald)
Iranian general
Ali Reza Askari is reported to have to defected to US custody after disappearing on February 7 in
Istanbul .
(The Jerusalem Post)
Turkey bans
user generated content
web site
YouTube after insulting
clips of Turkish
founder
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk are discovered.
(BBC)
March 8, 2007 (2007-03-08 ) (Thursday)
March 9, 2007 (2007-03-09 ) (Friday)
Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf suspends
Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on charges of misuse of authority.
(IBN)
Following a recent
referendum , the
Portuguese Parliament votes to legalise
abortion until the tenth week of
pregnancy .
(BBC)
The
European Union agrees to new targets to combat
climate change including having a fifth of its power from renewable sources and 10% of its vehicles from
biofuels .
(Canadian Press)
Ugandan judges end a week-long strike after
President
Yoweri Museveni expressed regret over an incident where security men seized Opposition supporters from the High Court of Uganda.
(Reuters Alertnet)
The
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit strikes down the
Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 , a local law in the
District of Columbia which banned residents from keeping
handguns at home, on
Second Amendment grounds.
(Bloomberg)
Nepal :
Results from the
Northern Ireland
Assembly election show the
DUP and
Sinn Féin making gains, and ensuring that in order for
direct rule to cease both parties must agree to cooperate in a
powersharing
Executive .
(BBC)
Cuba-United States relations : The
United States Coast Guard stages an exercise in
Florida in preparation for a possible
mass exodus from
Cuba in the event of the death of
Cuban leader
Fidel Castro . During the drill 40
Cuban exiles reach the
United States .
(BBC)
(BBC)
Kelvin Thomson , the Shadow
Attorney-General , in
Australia resigns after it is discovered that he provided a reference to fugitive accused drug trafficker
Tony Mokbel when Mokbel applied for a liquor licence in 2000.
(News Limited)
Iraq War :
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi , leader of the
insurgency group the
Islamic State of Iraq , is captured in
Baghdad .
(BBC) ,
(CNN)
Doğu Perinçek is found guilty of
genocide denial by a Swiss district court, making him the first person ever convicted for
denial of the Armenian Genocide by a court of law.
(swissinfo) Some events of 10 March 2007
March 10, 2007 (2007-03-10 ) (Saturday)
March 11, 2007 (2007-03-11 ) (Sunday)
March 12, 2007 (2007-03-12 ) (Monday)
While identifying as a
Unitarian ,
Representative
Pete Stark (
D -
CA ) becomes the first member of the
United States Congress to openly acknowledge that he does not hold a "god-belief".
(Press Release)
(AP via Guardian.co.uk)
The
BBC 's correspondent in the
Gaza Strip ,
Alan Johnston , who is the only Gaza-based foreign reporter from a major media organisation, is kidnapped. All the main
Palestinian militant groups have called for his release.
(BBC)
The High Court of
Zimbabwe rules that detained opposition leader
Morgan Tsvangirai of the
Movement for Democratic Change must either be brought into court on Tuesday or released.
(BBC)
Nigel Griffiths resigns as the Deputy
Leader of the
British
House of Commons over the proposed expansion of the
Trident missile system .
(The Scotsman) ,
(BBC)
Lieutenant General
Kevin Kiley resigns as the
Surgeon General of the United States Army over the
Walter Reed Medical Center scandal .
(CNN)
(BBC)
Asanbekov Sarybayev , the Deputy Culture Minister of the
Government of Kyrgyzstan , resigns and joins the
United Front For A Worthy Future For Kyrgyzstan opposition coalition. The United Front says it will hold protests in
Bishkek in April against the
Constitution and in favor of early presidential elections.
(RFE/RL)
United Nations investigators criticise
Sudan for gross
human rights violations in
Darfur , including murder, mass rape and kidnapping.
(BBC)
The blueprint for the
Chinese space program , including the first Chinese-built
astronomy
satellite , a joint unmanned mission to
Mars with
Russia , and other extensive international cooperation, is released.
(PTI via the Hindu) ,
(Xinhua)
Lawyers in
Pakistan boycott courts in protest at
President
Pervez Musharraf 's suspension of the country's Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for alleged "misuse of authority". More than 20 lawyers were injured in clashes with police during demonstrations in
Lahore .
(BBC)
2007 National People's Congress : After announcements in February that China's
trade surplus is near a record high, in an open press conference,
People's Bank of China Governor
Zhou Xiaochuan and
Minister of Commerce
Bo Xilai were both vocal in their criticism towards the United States in a proposed 27.5% tariff, with Bo calling it "destructive to bilateral trade".
(The New York Times)
(BBC)
March 13, 2007 (2007-03-13 ) (Tuesday)
Demonstrators in Mexico City clash with police as U.S. President
George W. Bush meets with
Mexican President
Felipe Calderón in
Mérida, Yucatán .
(AP via Jerusalem Post)
Relatives of the 17 victims of the
USS Cole bombing take
Sudan to court in a
civil suit claiming that the terrorist attack could not have happened without Sudan's help.
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
Twenty
Ecuadoran lawmakers clash with police after trying to regain their seats in
Congress . The legislators were part of a group of 57 dismissed by
President
Rafael Correa for trying to block a
referendum .
(BBC)
Morgan Tsvangirai , the leader of the
Movement for Democratic Change in
Zimbabwe , appears in court limping and with a head wound after having been arrested on Sunday. Tsvangarai is later taken from court to a
hospital under police guard.
(New York Times)
Spanish police arrest
Brian David Anderson , a Canadian citizen, in
Madrid , on behalf of the U.S. government, for allegedly engaging in fraud and funding a terrorist camp in
Afghanistan .
(The Columbus Dispatch)
Alexander Veshnyakov , the head of Russia's
Central Election Commission , is removed after criticising changes to electoral laws favouring
United Russia associated with
Vladimir Putin .
(BBC)
Alberto Gonzales , the
Attorney General of the United States , acknowledges that mistakes were made in the handling of the
firing of eight federal prosecutors . His top aide
Kyle Sampson resigns for not advising other senior officials of the
Department of Justice about discussions with former
White House counsel
Harriet Miers regarding the possible firings.
(AP via the Advocate)
At least 50 people die due to heavy snow in
Kashmir and thunderstorms in the rest of northern India.
(AFP via News Limited)
Five British Embassy workers kidnapped in
Ethiopia twelve days ago have been set free in neighbouring
Eritrea .
(The Times)
The first match of the
2007 Cricket World Cup , between
West Indies and
Pakistan , takes place at
Sabina Park in
Jamaica . The West Indies win by 54
runs .(
BBC )
A draft
Climate Change Bill is published in the United Kingdom, outlining a framework for achieving a mandatory 60% cut in
carbon emissions by
2050 .
(BBC)
Japan and Australia sign a security pact, the first defence treaty for Japan with a nation other than the United States since the end of World War II.
(BBC)
The
Mauritanian government announces that
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and
Ahmed Ould Daddah have won the most votes in the first round of the
2007 presidential election , and their runoff election will be held on
March 25 .
(Reuters)
(Xinhua via People's Daily)
(BBC)
March 14, 2007 (2007-03-14 ) (Wednesday)
Four people die in a shootout in
Greenwich Village in New York City.
(AP via CNN)
Twelve people die in
Nandigram near
Kolkata in India, as police shoot at
farmers protesting the establishment of a
special economic zone .
(BBC)
Nancy Worley , former
Secretary of State of the U.S. state of
Alabama , is indicted for violations related to solicitation of campaign contributions from Secretary of State employees.
(Associated Press)
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , long suspected as the mastermind of the
September 11, 2001 attacks , confesses to that and a string of others in a closed military hearing held at
Guantánamo Bay ,
Cuba .
(AP via CBS Atlanta)
Dutch police seal off the streets of
Ondiep in
Utrecht on the
second day of rioting .
(DutchNews)
(Canada Free Press)
The United States military states in a report that some aspects of the situation in
Iraq could be described as a "
civil war ".
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
The United Kingdom Government wins the support of the
House of Commons to
update the
Trident nuclear missile system . There was a significant revolt within the
Labour Party , with two
PPSs ,
Stephen Pound and
Chris Ruane , resigning.
(UK Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ]
NASA announces that the
Cassini spacecraft has captured images of several sea-sized bodies of liquid, likely
hydrocarbons , on
Titan , the largest
moon of Saturn .
(AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Police in India arrest two people in relation to the
Samjhauta Express bombing .
(BBC)
Eight people in southern
Thailand are shot dead after their vehicle is bombed by suspected
Islamic insurgents . Law enforcement warns of more violence by
separatists , citing the anniversary of the founding of the
Barisan Revolusi Nasional .
(AP via CNN)
An explosion at a gun shop in
Kabul kills at least six people.
(AFP via Melbourne Herald-Sun)
Tonga is considering options for the redevelopment of its capital city,
Nukuʻalofa , after
2006 riots destroyed the CBD.
(Radio NZ)
The U.S. state of
Colorado adopts "
Rocky Mountain High ", written by
John Denver , as its second official
state song .
(Denver Post)
The trial against former
media baron
Conrad Black begins in Chicago. He is accused of defrauding
Hollinger 's shareholders of millions of dollars.
(CBC News)
The
WWF declares a new species, the
Bornean clouded leopard .
(WWF)
March 15, 2007 (2007-03-15 ) (Thursday)
March 16, 2007 (2007-03-16 ) (Friday)
Two
Iraqi
police officers are killed and hundreds wounded or sickened as three suicide attacks using
chlorine gas occur in
Anbar province .
(New York Times)
The
Inter-American Development Bank forgives
US$ 4.4 billion in debt owed by
Bolivia ,
Honduras ,
Nicaragua ,
Haiti and
Guyana , five of the poorest countries in the
Americas .
(AP via San Diego Union Tribune)
Herschelle Gibbs of
South Africa becomes the first
cricketer to hit six
sixes in one over in a
One Day International at the
2007 Cricket World Cup .
(BBC)
Three officers of the
New York Police Department are indicted on charges related to the death of a black man,
Sean Bell , on his wedding day.
(AP via IHT)
British
coroner
Andrew Walker finds that the death of
soldier
Matty Hull in the
190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals "
friendly fire " incident was "unlawful and criminal".
(AP via CNN)
(BBC) The
U.S. Department of State rejects this ruling.
(BBC)
Airbus workers in
Germany ,
France and
Spain hold protest meetings and
strikes in response to plans to cut 10,000 jobs and close six plants.
(AP via ABC News America)
Livedoor founder
Takafumi Horie is sentenced to two and a half years for his role in securities fraud at the company.
(BBC)
Santo Santoro , the federal Minister for Ageing in
Australia , resigns after revealing that he owned
shares in at least 50 companies not disclosed on the
Senate register of interests.
(ABC News Australia)
The
Property Law of the People's Republic of China is adopted at the
2007 National People's Congress .
(BBC)
Foreign ministers of
Pacific Islands Forum countries meet in Vanuatu and call on Fiji to hold elections within two years.
(ABC)
(Radio New Zealand)
March 17, 2007 (2007-03-17 ) (Saturday)
March 18, 2007 (2007-03-18 ) (Sunday)
March 19, 2007 (2007-03-19 ) (Monday)
The
Marshall Islands declares a
state of emergency after thousands of people lack drinking
water due to a long
drought . The government despatches boats to outlying islands.
(AFP via News Limited)
In a
2007 Cricket World Cup tie-up,
India beats
Bermuda by 257 runs, the highest margin of victory in the history of
One Day Internationals .
(BBC Sports)
(Reuters)
The
Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper releases a
budget forecasting a surplus of
C$ 3.3 billion, and offers tax cuts for families and seniors and increased spending in
Ontario and
Quebec with the possibility of an election later this year.
(Bloomberg)
People's Bank of China Governor
Zhou Xiaochuan starts talks with leadership of the
Inter-American Development Bank to include the
People's Republic of China as its newest member. This may signal erosion of
Taiwan's
status in the
Latin American and
Caribbean region.
(AP via Houston Chronicle )
The government of
Iraq seeks custody of former
Vice President
Taha Yassin Ramadan so he can be
hanged at dawn tomorrow after having been recently sentenced to death for his role in killing 148
Shiites in 1982.
(Washington Post)
Waleed bin Attash , a suspected
al Qaeda operative, confesses plotting the
USS Cole bombing as well as the bombing of two
United States embassies in
Africa .
(AP via Houston Chronicle )
The
Supreme Court of the United States hears
Morse v. Frederick , in which an
Alaskan high school student argues
free speech rights in connection with his displaying a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" in front of a
Juneau high school.
(MSNBC)
Daniele Mastrogiacomo , an
Italian
journalist working for
la Repubblica , is set free by the
Taliban . He had been
kidnapped in the
Afghan
province of
Helmand on
March 6 .
(BBC)
The
Israeli Ministerial Committee for Symbols and Ceremonies declares the
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict a
war .
(Ynetnews)
At least 75 miners are dead after a
methane
gas explosion in the
Ulyanovskaya coal mine in the city of
Novokuznetsk in the
Kemerovo region of
Siberia .
(Reuters)
The
Airbus 380 makes a publicity flight with
Lufthansa to
New York and then
Chicago .
(BBC)
A
suicide bomber attacks a Western
convoy in
Kabul , causing casualties.
(Reuters via ABC News Online)
Six-party talks resume to discuss progress in implementing last month's agreement, with
North Korea and the
United States having resolved an issue about North Korean funds frozen in a
Macau bank.
(Bloomberg)
March 20, 2007 (2007-03-20 ) (Tuesday)
At least 27 people are killed in a
landslide in northern
Pakistan following days of heavy rain.
(Reuters via the Irish Times)
Indonesian police shoot dead a suspected member of
Jemaah Islamiyah , wound three people and arrest others in an anti-terrorist raid.
(AP via USA Today)
The
G33 group of
developing countries meet in
Indonesia to develop what they consider to be fairer
trade options and restart the stalled
Doha Round of
World Trade Organization negotiations.
(BBC)
Commercial spaceflight venture
SpaceX launches the second
Falcon 1 rocket into
space , though failing to reach
orbit .
(Space.com)
Jamaican police announce investigation into the death of former
Pakistan
cricket coach
Bob Woolmer with suspicions that it was
murder .
(ABC News Australia)
Local tribesmen and
Uzbek militants clash in
South Waziristan ,
Pakistan , leaving at least 46 people dead.
(The Independent)
Britain releases a
school uniform policy allowing
schools to ban the
niqab or full-face
veil for
girls .
(ABC News Australia)
Up to 65 people die as a
truck overturns on a
bridge near
Gueckedou ,
Guinea .
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
(BBC)
United Kingdom
Secretary of State for Defence
Des Browne orders the
military to destroy
cluster bombs that lack self-destruct mechanisms in order to avoid harming
civilians .
(AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy : The
Bush administration agrees to allow
Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Karl Rove and former
White House Counsel
Harriet Miers to
testify but not under
oath .
France signs an
extradition
treaty with the
People's Republic of China but will only extradite people in
death penalty cases when China agrees that the person will not receive a death penalty.
(BBC)
European Union
High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
Javier Solana says that the EU is doing all it can to find
Alan Johnston , the
BBC
Gaza correspondent who has been missing for 8 days.
(BBC)
At least 63 people die in a
fire in a
home for elderly and disabled people in a village in
Russia 's
Krasnodar Krai .
(AFP via Independent Online South Africa) ,
(AP via CNN)
Taha Yassin Ramadan , former
Baathist
Vice President of
Iraq and the Ten of Diamonds in the
most-wanted Iraqi playing cards , is hanged in
Baghdad for his role in the
Dujail killings.
(BBC)
The wife of
Sami Al-Arian , a former university professor convicted by a
United States
district court of funneling money to
Islamic Jihad , fears for his life as his
hunger strike to protest his imprisonment enters its 58th day.
(St. Petersburg Times)
March 21, 2007 (2007-03-21 ) (Wednesday)
March 22, 2007 (2007-03-22 ) (Thursday)
An arms depot
explodes in
Maputo ,
Mozambique , killing at least 93 people and injuring hundreds more.
CNN
(AP via CNN)
French
space agency
CNES releases its
UFO files to the public via its
website .
(Washington Post)
Jamaican Police announce that
Bob Woolmer , the coach of the
Pakistan national cricket team , was murdered on Sunday, and proceed to question all members of the team.
(This is London) ,
(IOL (S. Africa))
NBC ,
News Limited ,
AOL ,
MSN and
Yahoo! join forces to develop an ad-supported online
video network to compete with
YouTube .
(Business Week)
2007 Zimbabwean political crisis : The
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of
Bulawayo
Pius Ncube calls for mass protests to force
President
Robert Mugabe from power.
(BBC)
Fighting erupts in
Kinshasa ,
Democratic Republic of Congo , between Government troops and the personal
militia of
Jean-Pierre Bemba , defeated
presidential candidate in 2006 and
recently elected
Senator . The
Spanish
embassy is caught in the crossfire, leading to its evacuation under
United Nations guard.
(Reuters via CNN)
The
European Union agrees to open the
trans-Atlantic air market to greater competition.
(New York Times)
A senior
U.S. District Judge ,
Lowell Reed Jr. , strikes down the
Child Online Protection Act , which made it an offence for commercial
website operators to allow
minors to access "harmful" material.
(The Times)
Police arrest three men in
England in relation to the
7 July 2005 London bombings .
(Bloomberg)
United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon is left shocked, but uninjured at a press conference with
Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri Maliki in
Baghdad as a nearby
bomb explodes.
(BBC)
Former
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
John R. Bolton claims the
United States deliberately resisted calls for an immediate
ceasefire during the
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict .
(BBC)
Amnesty International calls on governments not to co-operate with
U.S. military in trials of detainees at
Guantánamo Bay .
(BBC)
The
ventromedial prefrontal
cortex is identified as the part of the
human brain that combines
logic and
emotion in order to make
moral decisions.
(The Times)
Insurgency in Somalia :
March 23, 2007 (2007-03-23 ) (Friday)
Condoleezza Rice , the
United States Secretary of State , travels to the
Middle East to talk with
Israel and the
Palestinian National Authority about the peace process.
(CNN)
Sami Al-Arian , the former university professor convicted of funneling money to
Palestinian Islamic Jihad , ends his hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, after 60 days.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Jorge Noguera , former
Colombian intelligence chief, is freed from
prison following a ruling by an
appeals court after having been jailed last month for collaborating with right wing
militia .
(BBC)
War in Afghanistan (2001–present) :
The
President of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cancels a trip to address the
United Nations Security Council before it decides whether to impose further sanctions, saying the
United States government had been "obstructive" in issuing
visas to members of his entourage.
(AP via CBS)
A
missile hits an Ilyushin airplane assisting the
African Union Mission to Somalia as it takes off from
Mogadishu , killing up to 11 people.
(Reuters via ABC Australia)
The
United States Senate votes 52-47 to approve a
budget plan that aims to achieve a
balanced budget within five years and aims to find offsets for
tax cuts passed in
President
Bush 's
first term .
(Dow Jones via Nasdaq)
Iraq War :
15
Royal Navy servicemen of the
HMS Cornwall operating in
Iraqi waters are
seized by Iranian authorities after inspecting a ship suspected of smuggling.
(BBC)
(ITV)
Nepal 's Government orders a judicial probe into clashes between
Maoists and supporters of the
Madhesi People's Rights Forum .
(Yahoo News)
Heavy fighting is reported in northwest
Sri Lanka between the
Army and the
Tamil Tigers .
(BBC)
Democratic Republic of Congo 's chief
prosecutor issues an arrest warrant for
Senator
Jean-Pierre Bemba who has sought refuge in the
South African embassy as fighting continues in
Kinshasa .
(AP via IHT)
Celebrations to mark the 50th birthday of the
European Union begin.
(Sky)
At least three people die after an accident involving four cars and three trucks causes a fire in the
Burnley Tunnel in
Melbourne ,
Australia . Both the Burnley tunnel and nearby
Domain Tunnel are evacuated.
(Herald Sun)
Veterinarians warn that thousands of cats and dogs may die in the wake of the
Menu Foods voluntary
recall of over 60 million cans of
aminopterin -contaminated
pet food across
North America .
(ABC)
16 people are dead and twelve more missing after a passenger schooner capsized in the
Toe River ,
Myanmar .
(Press TV)
March 24, 2007 (2007-03-24 ) (Saturday)
March 25, 2007 (2007-03-25 ) (Sunday)
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
Health
International relations
Law and crime
Sport
March 26, 2007 (2007-03-26 ) (Monday)
President of Chile
Michelle Bachelet sacks several ministers including the Minister for National Defence
Vivianne Blanlot Soza and the Minister for Justice
Isidro Solís Palma for perceived poor performance as well as her Chief of Staff. The Minister for Transport
Sergio Espejo Yaksic is sacked for problems with
Santiago's new transport system
Transantiago .
(BBC)
A
Guatemalan prison riot results in the death of three prisoners.
Carlos Vielman , the Interior Minister, resigns over police involvement in the killing of three politicians from
El Salvador last month.
(AP via the Ottawa Recorder)
(Washington Post)
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Quebec general election : The governing
Quebec Liberal Party wins a
minority government , with the
conservative
Action démocratique du Québec a strong second and the
separatist
Parti Québécois third.
(CBC)
Nine
United States Army officers including four
generals could face disciplinary proceedings as a result of mistakes made in the aftermath of the
friendly-fire death of
Pat Tillman .
(San Francisco Chronicle)
India 's
DRDO successfully test fires a new version of the
Astra
air-to-air missile .
(Jerusalem Post)
(ITAR-TASS)
(Washington Times)
Scientists discover how
fossilized dung-eating
mites can provide vital information on the rise and fall of the
Inca civilization in
South America .
(The Times)
Alan Johnston , a
BBC News journalist, begins his third week in captivity, making him the longest-held foreign hostage since kidnappings began in
Gaza .
Reporters Without Borders urges the
Arab League to make an appeal for his release at an upcoming summit.
(MidEast Times)
(RSF)
Prime Minister of Japan
Shinzo Abe apologizes for
Japan 's use of
women as
sex slaves in frontline
brothels during
World War II .
(AP via the Daily Comet)
French presidential election :
Nicolas Sarkozy resigns as
Interior Minister to concentrate on his
presidential candidacy.
(BBC)
Egyptians go to the polls to vote on 34 amendments to the
constitution of Egypt which the government claims will help combat terrorism. Opposition groups are
boycotting the
referendum claiming that they will erode
civil liberties . The amendments achieved approval with 76% of the vote but with only a 27% turnout.
(New York Times)
(BBC)
Health officials meet in
Jakarta to resolve a dispute between
Indonesia and the
World Health Organisation about access to
H5N1
vaccines .
(AP via IHT)
President of the People's Republic of China
Hu Jintao begins a three-day tour of
Russia to promote
trade and
energy ties.
(BBC)
The
military commission process begins for
detainees accused by the
United States of
war crimes , with the first person to face trial being
Australian
David Hicks . Hicks pleads guilty to providing material support for
terrorists .
(New York Times)
(ABC News Australia)
A 5.3 magnitude
aftershock hits the
Noto Peninsula of
Honshū , 300 km northwest of
Tokyo , a day after a 6.9 magnitude
earthquake hits the same area.
(AFP via News Limited)
Sri Lankan Civil War : The
Sri Lanka Army claims that an airbase adjacent to
Bandaranaike International Airport was subjected to air attack by the
Tamil Tigers , making it the first air attack launched by the Tigers.
(The Australian)
Northern Ireland Peace Process : Members of the
Democratic Unionist Party , led by
Ian Paisley , and
Sinn Féin , led by
Gerry Adams , meet face-to face for the first time, and agree a timetable for implementing the
St. Andrews Agreement .
(BBC)
The
Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan votes against allowing
polygamy , maintaining the two-year imprisonment punishment for offenders.
(RFE/RL)
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