July 1, 2007 (2007-07-01 ) (Sunday)
July 2, 2007 (2007-07-02 ) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economy
International relations
Law and crime
July 3, 2007 (2007-07-03 ) (Tuesday)
July 4, 2007 (2007-07-04 ) (Wednesday)
Twelve defendants involved in the
Chinese slave scandal are charged for illegal
detention and
murder .
(Xinhua)
Ayman al-Zawahri , the second in charge of
Al Qaeda , issues a
video calling for further
jihad and calling for the overthrow of "corrupt" Governments in the
Middle East .
(Reuters)
A
landslide buries a
bus carrying at least 40 people in
mountains near
Tehuacán in the
Mexican state of
Puebla .
(New York Times)
Investigators find a
suicide note from the two men accused of involvement in the
2007 Glasgow International Airport attack .
(CNN)
Fretilin wins more votes than any other party in the
East Timorese election with 29 per cent of the vote but has to form a
coalition with other
parties to form a government.
(AP via the Washington Post)
A power blackout hits eastern
Georgia , leaving 2.5m people without electricity and briefly stranding a thousand on the
Tbilisi Metro .
(BBC)
The terror threat level in the
United Kingdom is reduced from critical to severe.
(The Guardian)
The 9th summit of the
Assembly of the African Union , which lasted for 3 days, ends in
Accra ,
Ghana .
(BBC)
(Ghana Home Page)
Over
700 students surrender at a
mosque in
Islamabad after being surrounded by
Pakistani security forces.
(BBC)
Japan 's first female
Minister of Defense ,
Yuriko Koike , is sworn in a day after the resignation of her predecessor,
Fumio Kyuma .
(Marketwatch)
The
International Olympic Committee elects
Sochi as the host city for the
2014 Winter Olympics during its session in
Guatemala City .
(IOC)
A
tornado kills 14 people and injures at least 146 near
Tianchang ,
Anhui Province , in eastern
China .
(Reuters)
Syrian
Foreign Minister
Walid Muallem says the government is open to peace negotiations with
Israel without preconditions.
(The Peninsula)
BBC reporter
Alan Johnston , held captive in
Gaza for nearly four months, is released.
(Reuters)
(BBC)
War in Afghanistan : Six
Canadian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the
Panjwaii district.
(CTV)
Archived 2007-11-15 at the
Wayback Machine
July 5, 2007 (2007-07-05 ) (Thursday)
Scientists announce the discovery of a new species of
cephalopod , dubbed '
octosquid ', found off the coast of
Hawaii .
(Star Bulletin)
A gunman opens fire at the
New York-New York Hotel & Casino in
Las Vegas, Nevada , wounding three before being captured.
(Los Angeles Times)
The
Nigerian kidnappers of three-year-old
British toddler Margaret Hill threaten to kill her, unless her father,
Port Harcourt bar owner Mike Hill, takes her place.
(Middle East Times)
A 6.1 magnitude
earthquake hits the southern state of
Chiapas in
Mexico .
(Reuters)
Bahrain will no longer participate in the
Arab League boycott of Israel .
(GulfNews)
A
Belgian court sentences former
Rwandan
army
major
Bernard Ntuyahaga to twenty years in
jail for the murder of 10 Belgian Army
peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the
Rwandan genocide .
(Reuters via CNN)
The
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions votes to strike for higher
wages as inflation in
Zimbabwe rises above 10,000%.
(allAfrica)
Nine people are killed at
Culiacán International Airport in the
Mexican state of
Sinaloa as a cargo aircraft fails to take off and careens across a roadway, hitting several vehicles and business premises.
(BBC News)
An armed man holds several people hostage at a bank in the
Montreal suburb of
Longueuil . The situation is resolved without injury.
(CTV)
Two die and seven are seriously injured when a small
plane crashes after missing the
runway at
Aerfort na Minna , in
County Galway ,
Ireland .
(RTÉ)
12 boats capsize during a junior
regatta in
Dún Laoghaire , Ireland, on the
Irish Sea , with 120 children swept out to sea. All have been rescued, according to the
Irish Coast Guard , although 15 have been brought to
hospital .
(RTÉ)
Eleven people are injured when a staircase collapses at the
Natural History Museum in
Dublin .
(RTÉ)
Russia has officially declined a request by the
UK to
extradite
Andrei Lugovoi for the murder of
Alexander Litvinenko .
Russia's constitution bars extradition of its citizens.
(The Guardian)
A study at the
University of Jordan concluded that the
country's economic problems are not a result of the 750,000
Iraqi refugees who have sought
sanctuary there. Iraqi refugees now comprise over 10% of the
Jordanian population .
(Press TV)
On the 25th anniversary of their captivity, the
Iranian government announces that Iranian
diplomats Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam are still alive and being held in
Israeli jails. The men were captured in
1982 in
Lebanon .
(PressTV)
Eleven people are injured after a
London Underground train derails, leaving hundreds of passengers trapped in an east
London tunnel.
(The Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ] (thelondonpaper)
Armed residents of the
Indian state of
Nagaland burn down villages in the neighbouring state of
Assam .
(BBC)
Pakistani forces demolish the front walls of the
Lal Masjid
mosque in
Islamabad .
(CNN)
Twenty-five people died and 33 are injured in an explosion in a
karaoke bar in
Tianshifu in northeast
China .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
July 6, 2007 (2007-07-06 ) (Friday)
July 7, 2007 (2007-07-07 ) (Saturday)
Pope
Benedict XVI removes restrictions on celebrating the old
Latin Mass , reviving an ancient
Roman Rite
Mass liturgy that was essentially abolished after the
Second Vatican Council .
(Washington Post via AP )
The
New Seven Wonders of the World are announced. These are
The Great Wall of China ,
Petra in
Jordan , the
Christ the Redeemer statue in
Brazil ,
Machu Picchu in
Peru ,
Mexico 's
Chichen Itza
Mayan site, the
Colosseum in
Rome and the
Taj Mahal in
India .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
A
bus crash in
Java kills at least 14 people. 48 people were injured, many seriously.
(AP via the Guardian)
2007 Amirli bombing : At least 105 people are killed when a
suicide truck bomber attacks a market in
Amirli in northern
Iraq with a majority
Shiite
Turkmen population.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
The Government of
Afghanistan states that it will investigate claims that
United States and
NATO air strikes caused heavy civilian casualties in
Farah Province and
Kunar Province .
(Reuters)
Live Earth gets underway with concerts in
Australia , the
United States ,
Germany ,
South Africa , the
United Kingdom ,
Brazil ,
Japan and
China .
(Sydney Morning Herald)
King
Gyanendra of Nepal celebrates his 60th birthday amid protests by students and youth wings of eight ruling parties.
July 8, 2007 (2007-07-08 ) (Sunday)
Nigerian gunmen release British
toddler Margaret Hill kidnapped in the south of Nigeria on Thursday.
(CNN)
The Boeing Company unveils its newest airplane, the
Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" at
its facility in
Everett, Washington , USA. The 787 is an alternative to
Airbus 's
A350 .
(MSNBC)
(BBC)
Valdis Zatlers is sworn in as the third
President of Latvia .
(AP via IHT)
Polling in the
Papua New Guinea
election is extended due to weather and transport problems.
(ABC News Australia)
A fierce battle breaks out between the
Sri Lankan
navy and the
Tamil Tigers off the eastern coast of
Trincomalee province.
(AP via CNN)
The
Australian
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade warns of an imminent
terrorist threat in
Indonesia .
(AAP via News Limited)
Roger Federer defeats
Rafael Nadal 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 2–6, 6–2 to claim his fifth consecutive
Wimbledon title, equaling an
Open Era record set by
Björn Borg in 1980. Borg was in attendance to present the Wimbledon trophy to Federer.
(BBC)
Portia Simpson-Miller ,
prime minister of
Jamaica , announces that the
Jamaican general election, 2007 will be held on August 27th, 2007 at a rally for
People's National Party in
Kingston, Jamaica .
(Toronto Star)
July 9, 2007 (2007-07-09 ) (Monday)
July 10, 2007 (2007-07-10 ) (Tuesday)
President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces plans to build a
nuclear-powered submarine to patrol the waters off
Brazil 's coast at a cost of
US$ 500 million.
(Reuters Alertnet)
Mexico 's
Interior Ministry increases security on strategic installations following attacks on
pipelines . The
People's Revolutionary Army (EPR) has claimed responsibility.
(AP via Forbes)
The
Gadhafi Foundation announces a deal has been reached with families of more than 400 children infected with
HIV in the case of five
Bulgarian nurses and a
Palestinian doctor.
(AP via the Guardian)
The
European Union chooses
Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its nominee to head the
International Monetary Fund , making him the frontrunner to fill the position in October.
(AP via the NYT)
All 24 police officers missing after a fight between police and
Maoist insurgents in
Chhattisgarh central
India have been found dead.
(Reuters via News Limited)
Amy St. Eve , the judge in the
Conrad Black
fraud case, orders the jury to go back to work after it advised her that it couldn't reach a verdict on all the counts before it.
(Canadian Press via the Edmonton Sun)
Raúl Castro , the
interim leader of
Cuba , sets a date in late
October for
local elections .
(CBC)
Chester Turner is sentenced to death for the murder of ten women and an unborn child in
Los Angeles, California in the 1980s and 1990s.
(AP via the IHT)
Pope Benedict XVI approves a document issued by the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which redeclares the doctrine of
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus , that only the
Roman Catholic Church is the true
Christian church, and no other Christian denomination has the "means of
salvation ."
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Mortars hit the
Green Zone in
Baghdad . The Green Zone has been attacked at least 80 times since March, killing 26.
(CBS News)
A
Cessna 310 registered to the Competitor Liaison Bureau, an arm of
NASCAR , attempting an
emergency landing at
Orlando Sanford International Airport crashes into two homes in
Sanford ,
Florida . Three people in one of the homes are critically injured, and a fourth person, a four-year-old girl, died; an off-duty firefighter that first responded to the scene was also injured. Two people in the other house and both the pilot and passenger in the Cessna are killed; the passenger was Dr. Bruce Kennedy, husband of
International Speedway Corporation president
Lesa Kennedy and brother-in-law of NASCAR chief
Brian France .
(WESH.com)
Julian Moti is appointed as the Attorney-General of the
Solomon Islands despite being wanted in
Australia on
child sex charges.
(AAP via News Limited)
Simón Trinidad , a high-ranking member of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , is found guilty of conspiracy to hold three
Americans hostage by a U.S. court.
(BBC)
In observance of
Captive Nations Week , there was a brief ceremony and laying of a wreath today at the Victims of
Communism Memorial,
Massachusetts and New Jersey Avenues, NW,
Washington, D.C. . On
10 July ,
George W. Bush issued a
Proclamation , designating July 15 through 21 as Captive Nations Week and called upon the
American people to reaffirm the country's "commitment to all those seeking liberty, justice and
self-determination ." This year marks the 49th observance of Captive Nations Week.
(The White House)
Thailand 's highest court rules that a corruption case may proceed against former
Prime Minister of Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra .
(ABC News Australia)
China executes the former head of the State Food and Drug Association
Zheng Xiaoyu for
corruption .
(MSNBC)
A
Tamil man from
Sydney is charged with multiple
terrorism charges over alleged links with the
Tamil Tigers .
(Sydney Morning Herald)
Pakistani forces storm the
Lal Masjid
Mosque in
Islamabad , bringing the
Lal Masjid siege to an end. At least 3 soldiers and 40 militants die in the assault.
(Reuters)
(FOX) .
Abdul Rashid Ghazi , a top clerics was confirmed dead according to Interior ministry sources.
July 11, 2007 (2007-07-11 ) (Wednesday)
July 12, 2007 (2007-07-12 ) (Thursday)
The
African kingdom of
Lesotho declares a food crisis due to
UN report showing a "major food gap" for 20% of the population.
(Reuters)
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Two
British teenagers are arrested at the
Kotoka International Airport in
Accra ,
Ghana , for attempting to smuggle 6.5 kg of
cocaine worth £300,000 to the UK.
(BBC)
An attorney convicted of leaking evidence given by U.S. baseball player
Barry Bonds and other athletes from the
Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) Inquiry is sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
(AP via San Jose Mercury News ) [
permanent dead link ]
A
Mexican federal court suspends the
genocide trial of former
President
Luis Echeverría .
(BBC)
The
Spanish
Civil Guard raids a boat operated by
Odyssey Marine Exploration that it claims may have taken
treasure worth hundreds of millions of dollars from a Spanish
galleon .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
(BBC)
Cécilia Sarkozy , the wife of
French
President
Nicolas Sarkozy , flies to
Libya and visits the
Bulgarian medics
condemned to death for allegedly
infecting children with HIV and also the families of the infected children. She will also meet
Colonel
Muammar al-Gaddafi , the
President of Libya .
(BBC)
The
Nepalese
government introduces a budget that scraps payments to
King
Gyanendra of Nepal and nationalises royal property.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
The
Lebanese
army has resumed shelling
Fatah al-Islam positions inside the
Nahr al-Bared
refugee camp near
Tripoli . All of the refugees have left the camp after recent fighting.
(BBC)
A
Philippines
ferry , the MV Blue Water Princess , sinks off the southeastern coast of
Luzon , leading to four deaths and 18 people being declared missing.
(News Limited)
Iraq War :
Al-Qaeda :
Six
Afghan policemen are killed by an
improvised explosive device in the
Khost Province . Another IED kills two civilians in the
Paktika Province .
(BBC)
An
Israeli soldier is killed by
Hamas forces in the
Gaza Strip . It is the first Israeli combat casualty since
November 2006 .
(NYT)
Six
Swiss Army
recruits are killed by an
avalanche on the
Jungfrau mountain in
Switzerland .
(BBC)
A
false alarm causes the diversion of
American Airlines Flight 136. The plane crew was concerned that a passenger of
Middle Eastern descent might have bypassed
security controls .
(BBC)
A ship carrying oil for fuel to
North Korea departs from
South Korea . The
government of North Korea may close the
Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center after the shipment arrives.
(BBC)
The
government of
Côte d'Ivoire decides to ask the
United Nations to probe the failed
assassination attempt against
Prime Minister
Guillaume Soro .
(BBC)
President
Pervez Musharraf praises the
military for ending the
Lal Masjid siege and vows to eradicate
terrorism from
Pakistan .
(BBC)
The
government of Sri Lanka plans to hold a "victory party" in
Colombo after the fall of the last
Tamil Tiger base in
Thoppigala .
(BBC)
The
government of
Liberia submits a bill to the
Parliament which would allow the seizure of the assets of former
President
Charles G. Taylor , his relatives and associates.
(BBC)
At a
press conference ,
U.S.
President
George W. Bush admits for the first time that someone in his administration
may have leaked the name of
CIA agent
Valerie Plame .
(WSJ)
July 13, 2007 (2007-07-13 ) (Friday)
July 14, 2007 (2007-07-14 ) (Saturday)
July 15, 2007 (2007-07-15 ) (Sunday)
July 16, 2007 (2007-07-16 ) (Monday)
July 17, 2007 (2007-07-17 ) (Tuesday)
The board of
Dow Jones & Company agrees to accept an offer of
$ 5 billion from
Rupert Murdoch 's
News Limited .
(Fox News)
The
World Bank releases its
Worldwide Governance Indicators , providing information on corruption, rule of law, and other indicators of stability on countries around the world.
(WGI page)
TAM Linhas Aéreas
Flight 3054 carrying 186 people crashes in
Congonhas International Airport ,
São Paulo ,
Brazil . The death toll is estimated to be at least 200 people.
(Reuters)
(MSNBC)
(CNN)
(BBC)
(Fox News)
(Globo News Online)
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
The High Judicial Council of
Libya commutes the
death sentences against six foreign medical workers to
life imprisonment .
(Reuters via CNN)
A train carrying yellow
phosphorus derails in western
Ukraine , sending a toxic cloud over several villages. At least twenty people are hospitalized and hundreds are forced to evacuate.
(AP via MSNBC)
The
Sudanese government says that a recent attempted
coup d'état did not have the support of the
United States government, contrary to previous accusations from Nafi Ali Nafi, Sudanese President
Omar al-Bashir 's assistant. The government has arrested 14 members of the
Umma Reform and Renewal Party for plotting the coup.
(VOA News)
Five people are killed in a twin bomb blasts in Islamabad near the venue of a rally and meeting to be addressed by Pakistan Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry .
39 people are arrested, detained and kept at an undisclosed location in
Pakistan due to an alleged connection with a recent attack on a plane carrying
Pervez Musharraf .
All three men charged with supporting
Tamil Tigers have been granted
bail in
Melbourne .
(ABC News Australia)
Delegates arrive in
Beijing for the resumption of
six party talks on Wednesday involving
North Korea ,
South Korea ,
China ,
Russia ,
Japan and the
United States to discuss the second phase of a deal on North Korean nuclear disarmament.
(BBC)
2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake : The Government of
Japan orders
The Tokyo Electric Power Company to keep its
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant closed pending safety checks after the
earthquake caused a leak.
(Bloomberg)
July 18, 2007 (2007-07-18 ) (Wednesday)
An initial probe into the crash of
TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 suggests that the pilot tried to abort the landing.
(CNN)
A
steam pipe explodes in
Midtown
New York City outside
Grand Central Terminal ; killing 1 person, injuring 44 and causing
evacuations and delays throughout the area.
(CNN)
A study in
Nature island of
Britain was severed from continental
Europe by a giant
flood that cut away the
Weald-Artois Anticline about 200,000 years ago.
(Nature)
Florida
Governor
Charlie Crist ends the state's temporary voluntary
moratorium on the
death penalty by signing the
death warrant of
Mark Dean Schwab , convicted in
1992 of kidnapping, raping and murdering an 11-year-old boy in
Cocoa, Florida . He is scheduled to die on November 15, 2007.
(Orlando Sentinel) [
permanent dead link ] (WKMG)
Atlanta Falcons
quarterback
Michael Vick and three others are indicted by a federal
grand jury in connection with the
Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation .
(ESPN)
Suspected militants attack a
Pakistan army
convoy detonating a bomb and opening fire leading to the loss of at least 16 lives and 14 more injuries.
(AP via Fox News)
The
International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that
North Korea has shut down all five of its nuclear reactors as
six-party talks resume in
Beijing .
(Reuters)
Iraq War : The
US Senate , with a 52-47 vote, fails by 8 votes to pass a
bill that would have required withdrawal of all US troops (except for a small force) from Iraq by April 30, 2008.
(TIME Magazine)
As
China struggles to deal with
flooding in the provinces of
Sichuan ,
Guizhou ,
Anhui ,
Hubei , and
Jiangsu , the city of
Chongqing is hit with the largest rainstorm in the city's meteorological records, killing 32. 12 people are reported missing. The city's transportation network has been shut down completely.
(Xinhua via China Daily)
July 19, 2007 (2007-07-19 ) (Thursday)
The
National Resistance Movement , the governing party of
Uganda , announces plans to introduce compulsory
national service .
(The Kampala Monitor)
TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 :
TAM Linhas Aéreas claims that there was a braking problem in the aircraft.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Two
United States Army soldiers are charged with murder of an
Iraqi and their
battalion commander is relieved of duty due to the incident.
(The Los Angeles Times)
In the United Kingdom, the
Labour Party wins a
by-election in the seat of
Sedgefield formerly held by
Tony Blair as well as the constituency of
Ealing Southall .
(The Independent) [
permanent dead link ] (Reuters via News Limited)
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 points for the first time in history, partly as a result of a good earnings report from
IBM .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
The largest
Viking treasure discovery in the
United Kingdom since the nineteenth century made near
Harrogate in northern
England is announced.
(Reuters via Melbourne Herald Sun)
Suspected
Somali insurgents target a peace meeting with
mortar fire but accidentally kill six children.
(Reuters via Canada.com)
A U.S. federal judge
dismisses a case brought by
Valerie Plame against members of the
Bush
Administration in connection with the
Plame affair .
(CNN)
Death toll in the
Mumbai building collapse rises to 26 as rescue operations continues.
Russia expels four
British diplomats in the ongoing row over the extradition of
Andrei Lugovoi for the suspected
murder of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko .
(Sky)
A report commissioned by the
Solomon Islands Government is critical of the handling of last year's
Honiara riots by the
Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
(AAP via News Limited)
Iraq 's main
Sunni
Arab political block, the
Iraqi Accord Front , agrees to end its
boycott of the
Iraqi Council of Representatives .
(Reuters)
Heritage Oil and Gas finds a
petroleum deposit in
Uganda . HOG estimates the deposit contains several billions of barrels of oil, the largest find in Africa in over a decade.
(AllAfrica)
Japanese media reports claim that the
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant will remain closed for at least a year following the
2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake .
(BBC)
Three bombs in
Pakistan kill at least 52 people with at least 160 people killed in bomb attacks since the storming of the
Lal Masjid mosque.
(Reuters)
Castleberry's Food Company of Augusta, Georgia issues a recall on hot dog chili sauce and other products, due to contamination of
Clostridium botulinum . 8 people contracted
Botulism poisoning from Castleberry's products. This prompts the first botulism recall of canned foods in the United States in over 30 years.
(CDC)
July 20, 2007 (2007-07-20 ) (Friday)
July 21, 2007 (2007-07-21 ) (Saturday)
July 22, 2007 (2007-07-22 ) (Sunday)
July 23, 2007 (2007-07-23 ) (Monday)
July 24, 2007 (2007-07-24 ) (Tuesday)
Five
mountain climbers freeze to death in the
Italian Alps .
(Reuters via News Limited)
People are evacuated from houses in
Oxford due to the
2007 United Kingdom floods as the 350,000 people in
Gloucestershire without running water are supplied with bottled water.
(BBC)
Tony Blair meets with
Israeli and
Palestinian leaders on his first trip to the region as a peace envoy.
(Reuters)
Republic of Macedonia ,
Albania and Serbian autonomous province of
Kosovo are experiencing blackouts as a result of the 2007 European heatwave that spreads over the Balkans. It also causes bushfires everywhere in the region between
Croatia ,
Hungary ,
Serbia and
Greece .
(MIA-Macedonian Informative Agency)
(International Herald Tribune)
(BBC News)
Team Astana retires from the
2007 Tour de France following
Kazakh rider
Alexander Vinokourov testing positive for a banned
blood transfusion .
(ICWales)
New Haven ,
Connecticut becomes the first
United States city to give
identification cards to
undocumented immigrants .
(BBC)
Pakistani militants fire rockets at the town of
Bannu resulting in at least seven deaths and 30 injuries.
(Reuters via Canada) [
permanent dead link ] North Waziristan region, about 35 militants attacked on security forces killing 4 and injuring 6.
Vladimir Putin , the
President of Russia , accuses the
United Kingdom of "colonial thinking" for wishing to extradite
Andrei Lugovoi to face trial for the alleged murder of
Alexander Litvinenko .
(The Telegraph)
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Marie-Noëlle Thémereau resigns as the President of
New Caledonia .
(ABC News Australia)
A boiler explosion in a towel factory in North
Karachi kills 8 and injures 28.
A
suicide car bomber kills at least 22 people in the
Iraqi town of
Hilla .
(BBC)
One of
Hungary 's top health official says almost 500 people in the country have died in the past week as a result of a
heat wave .
(BBC)
Dozens of people are missing in
Sulawesi ,
Indonesia as a result of recent
floods and
landslides .
(BBC)
The 5
Bulgarian nurses and the
Palestinian assistant, imprisoned in
Libya for 8 years and that had been sentenced to death, in
several trials based on allegations of having inoculated
AIDS to children, are leaving
Libya and returning back to
Sofia with Mrs
Cécilia Sarkozy who negotiated their liberation.
(Reuters Alertnet)
July 25, 2007 (2007-07-25 ) (Wednesday)
July 26, 2007 (2007-07-26 ) (Thursday)
July 27, 2007 (2007-07-27 ) (Friday)
Balochistan Government spokesman and media consultant to Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousaf, Abdur Raziq Bugti is shot dead by unknown armed men.
War in Afghanistan : Three soldiers in the
NATO -led
International Security Assistance Force are killed.
(Xinhua)
The top
United Nations official in
Haiti raises concerns about a sharp increase in
lynchings and other forms of mob violence.
(AP via IHT)
The
United States and
India confirm a deal on
nuclear co-operation .
(BBC)
Clinical trials for
MVA85A , a new
vaccine against
tuberculosis , are started in
South Africa .
(BBC)
Abel Mutsakani, editor of the ZimOnline , is shot and seriously wounded in
Johannesburg ,
South Africa in what may have been an assassination attempt.
(AllAfrica)
A study published in
The Lancet correlates
cannabis use to
psychosis .
(BBC)
An independent review set up by
NASA finds out that
astronauts were allowed to fly despite being
drunk in at least two occasions.
(BBC)
The
United States Congress passes a bill containing measures recommended by the
9/11 Commission .
(BBC)
The
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation dispatches a team to investigate the shooting of four
mountain gorillas in the
Virunga National Park in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
(CNN)
Yakub Memon , one of the masterminds behind the
1993 Bombay bombings , is
sentenced to death in
India .
(BBC)
The
European Commission accuses
Intel Corporation of
anti-competitive practices against
Advanced Micro Devices .
(BBC)
A
Serbian gunman
kills at least nine people in the village of Jabukovac in eastern Serbia.
(AP via Forbes)
The
Israeli Defense Force suspends a company for shooting an unarmed man in
West Bank city of
Hebron .
(ABC)
Two news
helicopters belonging to
KTVK Channel 3 &
KNXV Channel 15-ABC collide while covering a
car chase in
Phoenix, Arizona , leaving all four dead (KTVK Pilot Scott Bowerbank, Photographer Jim Cox, KNXV Pilot Craig Smith & Photographer Rick Krolax
(KPHO Phoenix)
(KVOA Tucson)
(BBC)
Former
French
Prime Minister
Dominique de Villepin is charged with "complicity in slanderous denunciations" and "complicity in using forgeries" for allegedly trying to discredit current
President
Nicolas Sarkozy .
(NDTV)
Jailed policeman
Eugene de Kock claims in an interview from prison that former
South African
President
Frederik Willem de Klerk had hands "soaked in blood" and had ordered
political killings and other crimes during the
anti-apartheid conflict.
(BBC)
A
general strike goes into its third day in
Swaziland ; strikers demand democratic elections and an end to
absolute monarchy .
(M&C)
Mohammad Ashfaq, a government appointed
imam , is chased out of the
Red Mosque in
Pakistan by 200 students. A suicide bomb near the mosque kills at least 13 and injures another 50.
(ABC News Australia)
(Reuters via Canada.com)
The death toll from
floods and
landslides on the
Sulawesi island of
Indonesia rises to 107.
(AFP via ABC)
The
President of Indonesia
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono meets with the
Prime Minister of Australia
John Howard to discuss security issues and the possibility of a bilateral
free trade agreement.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
The
Commonwealth
Director of Public Prosecutions drops the charge of supporting a terrorist organization against
Mohamed Haneef .
(News Limited)
Australian Federal Police admits all their main evidence against Haneef was wrong.
Five thousand
Zimbabweans have been arrested in the last month for violating
price controls .
(AP via CNN)
New Zealand
Environment Minister
David Benson-Pope resigns from the
Cabinet .
(Bloomberg)
Steve Bracks resigns as the
Premier of Victoria .
John Thwaites , the Deputy Premier, announces his resignation later in the day.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
(Sydney Morning Herald)
Swedish King
Carl XVI Gustaf , by long tradition an honorary member of the
AIK soccer club , concedes that he is a supporter of the rivaling club
Djurgården .
(TT via Dagens Nyheter)
Barry Bonds hits career
home run number 754.
(New York Times)
Milt Stegall breaks the all time
CFL
touchdown record, with his 139th touchdown.
Jihad Shaar is beaten to death by
Israel Defense Force soldiers.
(Haaretz)
The Simpsons Movie arrives in
cinemas worldwide.
(The Simpsons Movie)
July 28, 2007 (2007-07-28 ) (Saturday)
July 29, 2007 (2007-07-29 ) (Sunday)
July 30, 2007 (2007-07-30 ) (Monday)
July 31, 2007 (2007-07-31 ) (Tuesday)
Nuradin Abdi , a
Somali citizen living in the
United States , pleads guilty to providing material support to
terrorists in connection with a plot to blow up a
shopping mall in
Columbus, Ohio .
(CNN)
The
President of Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega offers to give up
SAM-7
surface-to-air missiles in exchange for
helicopters , surgical supplies and medicine from the
United States .
(AP via Washington Post)
The board of
News Corporation formally approves a
$ 5 billion bid for
Dow Jones with Dow Jones agreeing to the terms.
(Reuters)
(ABC News Australia) ,
(CNN Money) [
permanent dead link ]
Archaeologists discover the remains of the lost city of
Rhakotis in
Alexandria 's East Bay.
(National Geographic)
Retired
United States Army
Lieutenant-General
Philip Kensinger is censured by the Army over his role in the series of errors following the death of
Ranger
Pat Tillman in 2004.
(AP via New York Times)
The
United Nations Security Council authorises up to 26,000 troops and soldiers being sent to the
Darfur region of
Sudan (
United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur or
UNAMID ).
(Reuters)
The
United States House of Representatives passes the
Honest Leadership and Open Government Act , a comprehensive
ethics and
lobbying reform bill 411-8. It bans lobbyists and their clients from giving members of the
United States Congress gifts and provides for mandatory disclosure of
earmarks in expenditure bills.
(Fox News)
Australia and
New Zealand refer a dispute over an Australian ban on
apple imports from New Zealand to the
World Trade Organization .
(ABC News Australia)
Bollywood
actor
Sanjay Dutt is jailed for six years, fined
Rs. 25,000 and his
probation plea rejected on charges of obtaining weapons from
gangsters in a case associated with the
1993 Mumbai bombings .
(Sky)
Worsening
floods affecting eastern
India ,
Bangladesh and
Nepal has led to millions of people leaving their homes.
(BBC News) 160 people confirmed dead in
Bangladesh alone.
Flood alerts are issued for
Hubei province in
China as the swollen
Yangtze River puts the
Three Gorges Dam to the test. Another 27 people have died and
Beijing 's airport was closed on Monday night due to heavy rain.
(Reuters)
(AP via Washington Post)
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Khang Khek Ieu aka Comrade Duch, a former
Khmer Rouge prison chief, has been handed over to a
United Nations backed
genocide tribunal.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Operation Banner , the deployment of
British Army soldiers in
Northern Ireland to support the
Police Service of Northern Ireland , ends at midnight marking the conclusion of the
Northern Ireland peace process .
Operation Banner has been the longest British Army operation in history, lasting 38 years.
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
Zimbabwe :
The
Australian Synchrotron officially opens in
Melbourne ,
Victoria .
(ABC News Australia)
Elections
Recent: July
1 :
Mali ,
Parliament (1st round)
1 :
Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin ,
Territorial Council (SB) and
Territorial Council (SM)
7 :
Latvia ,
referendum on security laws
8 :
Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin ,
Territorial Council (SB) and
Territorial Council (SM)
19 :
India ,
President
19 :
Nagorno-Karabakh ,
President
22 :
Cameroon ,
Parliament
22 :
Turkey ,
Parliament
22 :
Mali ,
Parliament (2nd round)
24 :
Vietnam ,
President
29 :
Japan ,
House of Councillors
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