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February 16, 2007
(
2007-02-16
)
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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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