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- 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)
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- 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) (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)
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- Pope Benedict XVI removes restrictions on
celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving an ancient Roman Rite Mass liturgy that
was essentially abolished during the Second Vatican Council in 1962.
(Wahington 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.
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- 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
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- 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, DC. 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.
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- The African kingdom of Lesotho declares a food crisis
due to UN
report showing a "major food gap" for 20% of the population. (Reuters)
- 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)
- 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)
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- 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)
- Joshua Paul Hart from Epsom asked Montana Kew Amy Woodruff from
Walton to be his girlfriend.. She says yes.. The start of the best
known relationship in the world.
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- Farhad Rostampour became the first Iranian-born pilot to
complete a record setting flight around the world. His flight is
known as the FreedomFlight.News Channal 4
- 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 confirms that the 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) (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)
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- Five mountain climbers freeze to death in the Italian Alps. (Reuters via News
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- 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) In
another attack in the 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)
- 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)
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- 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 near the Bulgarian border. (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,
Photogapher 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)
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- 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)
- 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 a 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 Organisation. (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)
- 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)
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