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June 8, 2007
(
2007-06-08
)
(Friday)
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The
Council of Europe
publishes a report claiming to prove that member states
Romania
and
Poland
conspired with the American
CIA
to kidnap and torture suspected terrorists.
(BBC)
(CoE Report)
Chinese
police
rescue 31 workers kept as
slaves
at a
brickworks
in
Linfen
, in
Shanxi
province, run by the son of a local official of the
Communist Party of China
.
(Reuters via News Limited)
At least 14 people are killed in two
bomb
explosions in
Qurna
near
Basra
in
Iraq
.
(BBC)
New South Wales
in
Australia
is
battered with severe storms
, killing at least nine people and causing major flooding in
Newcastle
, the
Hunter region
, and the
Central Coast
. The coal freighter
Pasha Bulker
is forced to run aground on Nobby's Beach, a major Newcastle beach.
(ABC News Australia)
(ABC News Australia)
(ABC News Australia)
The
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
is launched with a crew of seven on an assembly mission to the
International Space Station
on mission
STS-117
.
(BBC)
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