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- 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)
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- 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) (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)
- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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 Organisation 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. (AP via San Francisco
Examiner)
- 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 58st day. (St. Petersburg
Times)
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- An arms depot explodes in Maputo, Mozambique, killing at least 93 people and
injuring hundreds more. (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 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:
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- 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)
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- 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)
- Quebec general election:
The governing Quebec Liberal Party wins a minority
government, with the conservative Action démocratique du
Québec a strong second and the 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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