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Global News Archive for July 2007:
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Republican Senators Call for New War Authorization
Senators John W. Warner and Richard G. Lugar said today that President Bush should present to Congress a contingency plan for Iraq by Oct. 16...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
'Evictee' Charley back in house
Charley Uchea is voted out of the Big Brother house - but only temporarily - as the TV show stages a fake eviction...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Lord Black loses Tory party whip
The Tories say they will withdraw the whip from Conrad Black following his conviction for fraud...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Dow Jones ends week on new high
The Dow Jones share index closes at yet another record high, despite weak retail sales data...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Police in 'cyanide death' search
Police carry out a search in south Belfast after the death of a man - possibly from cyanide poisoning - in a hotel...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Israel army holds Shalit suspect
Israel says it has arrested a Palestinian man suspected of involvement in the capture of missing soldier Gilad Shalit...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Pan-American Games set to begin
Thousands of people attend the opening of the Pan-American Games in Brazil, amid heightened security...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Support for Japan PM 'at new low'
Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe falls to its lowest level yet, a new poll shows...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
BBC 'must root out inaccuracies'
The head of the BBC has said the corporation needs to put "its house in order" after apologising to the Queen...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
US police 'foil high school plot'
Long Island teenagers were planning a high school massacre similar to Columbine, police say...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Ghana girls' families 'confident'
The families of two girls suspected of drug smuggling in Africa say they are confident of the country's legal system...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Man hunted after three found dead
Police name a man they want to speak to over the deaths of a mother and her two teenage children...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Indian doctor charge over UK plot
Australian police charge a man over his alleged involvement with attempted bombings in London and Glasgow...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
North Korea Proposes Military Talks With U.S.
North Korea hopes that a permanent peace treaty with the U.S. will enable it to spend less on its military...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Australia Ends Bid to Hold Suspect
The police in Australia do not have enough evidence so far to charge an Indian doctor for ties to the failed London and Glasgow bombings...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
New York Times Journalist Killed in Baghdad
Khalid W. Hassan, who worked for the New York Times?s news bureau in Baghdad, was shot and killed today...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Intel and $100 laptop join forces
Intel and the One Laptop per Child foundation bury their differences and agree to work together on the project...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Charley tipped for fake eviction
Argumentative Charley Uchea is tipped to get the boot from the Big Brother house in this week's "fake eviction"...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Tories fail to decide on Cormack
A vote to decide the political future of veteran Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cormack ends in a tie...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
'Throttle' teacher is struck off
The General Teaching Council of Wales strikes off a teacher said to have held a boy by the throat against a wall...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
US retail sales fall unexpectedly
US retail sales slide in June by the biggest amount in almost two years, sparking fears about growth...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Study uncovers suicide 'cluster'
A groundbreaking study finds that suicide rates have soared in one of the most deprived parts of Scotland...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Bomb hits home of IRA men's mum
The home of the mother of two IRA men killed by the SAS is damaged in a pipe bomb attack on a police station...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Birds rescued in Napoli oil leak
Oil-covered birds are rescued at a Devon beach where the stricken container ship MSC Napoli is being broken up...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
'Indian register' for pregnancies
All pregnant women should officially register and get permission if they want an abortion, a minister says...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
French gendarme shoots children
A French gendarme kills his two children and a colleague before shooting himself in Paris, officials say...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Gunmen free Nigerian chief's son
The two-year-old son of a Nigerian chief is freed, as oil militants hold talks with the government...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Football: Babel transfer complete
Liverpool sign Ajax's Ryan Babel on a five-year contract...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Red carpet rolled out for Beckham
David Beckham is officially unveiled by the LA Galaxy to an audience of media and supporters...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Mosque protests across Pakistan
Protests take place across Pakistan against the government's decision to storm the Red Mosque...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Rail worker held over crash
A Network Rail employee is arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over a train crash in which a woman died...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Man admits store arson killings
A 33-year-old man pleads guilty to the manslaughter of two people in an arson attack on a south London store...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Teenagers and mother found dead
A murder inquiry starts after a woman and her two teenage children are found with head injuries in Greater Manchester...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Conrad Black convicted of fraud
Media tycoon Conrad Black is convicted of fraud and obstructing justice, but cleared of racketeering...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Typhoon Lashes Southern Japan
TOKYO (AP) -- A powerful typhoon pounded Japan's southern Okinawa island chain Friday, cutting power to tens of thousands of households and grounding hundreds of flights...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
U.N. Agency Says Iran Allows Inspection of Nuclear Site
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Iran has lifted its ban on visits to a nuclear facility by U.N. experts and will now allow them to inspect the site, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Australia Police Drop Bid to Hold Suspect in Bomb Plots
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Australian police on Friday resumed their interrogation of an Indian doctor suspected in failed the British terrorism attacks after dropping a request to extend his 11-day detention without charge...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Germans Weigh Civil Rights and Public Safety
Fearful of terrorism, Germany is edging away from its deep aversion to intrusive and harsh enforcement tactics...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
A Firm Bush Tells Congress Not to Dictate War Policy
Hours later, the House responded by voting almost totally along party lines to require that the U.S. withdraw most combat troops from Iraq by April 1...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
BBC to hear open source concerns
Calls to make the BBC's iPlayer work on all types of computer are to get a fresh look by the BBC Trust...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Call for foreign student subsidy
UK taxpayers should subsidise overseas students, argues a higher education body...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
TV cameras record Rowling's year
A documentary revealing the past 12 months of JK Rowling's life is to be shown on ITV1...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Brown backs child sport campaign
A campaign to get school children and teenagers out of school to do more sport is announced by Gordon Brown...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Eye patients 'denied treatment'
Patients complain that a drug which could stop blindness is available in only a few parts of Wales...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Strike action hits postal service
A second 24-hour postal strike is under way as part of a continuing row over pay and job security...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Met Police fined over pool deaths
Police are fined £75,000 with £50,000 costs over the deaths of two boys who drowned in a police swimming pool...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Dissidents 'behind station blast'
Police believe dissident republicans planted a pipe bomb which exploded at Strabane police station...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Iran agrees to reactor inspection
Iran has agreed to let UN inspectors visit a nuclear reactor which could produce plutonium, the IAEA says...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Security stepped up in Pakistan
Security is increased in Pakistan ahead of protests over the government's operation against Islamabad's radical Red Mosque...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
French hopes over Libya medics
France believes the Bulgarian medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV can be saved...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Mexico migrants locked in lorry
Mexican police find 81 illegal migrants locked inside an abandoned lorry near the US border...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
N Korea's military seeks US talks
North Korea's military calls for direct talks with the US, as UN nuclear inspectors head to Pyongyang...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Militants in first Nigeria talks
A prominent militant leader tells Nigeria's vice-president he will try to help end violence in the oil region...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Football: Beckham to be unveiled
David Beckham will be paraded as a Los Angeles Galaxy player on Friday...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Football: Tevez move denied
West Ham deny reports that Argentine striker Carlos Tevez is set to complete his move to Man Utd...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Boris 'likely to run for mayor'
Boris Johnson is expected to run against Ken Livingstone for London mayor, it is reported...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Parents' shock at Ghana arrests
The families of two London girls suspected of drug smuggling in west Africa thought they were on a school trip...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Government gives flood cash
Hull is to receive £2.1m to help it recover from last month's floods - the biggest share of government aid...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Three found killed in house
The bodies of two women and a 13-year-old boy are found dead in a house in Fallowfield, Greater Manchester...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
BBC error 'no reason to resign'
BBC One controller Peter Fincham says he is not planning to resign over the Queen documentary blunder...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Speech not critical of US - Brown
Gordon Brown's spokesman denies claims that a speech by a UK Cabinet minister was critical of the US...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Rail worker arrested over crash
A Network Rail employee is arrested in connection with the train crash in Cumbria in which an elderly woman died...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Nigel Dempster Dies at 65; Made Gossip Respectable
Mr. Dempster fed the seemingly insatiable appetite for word of how minor aristocrats and wayward members of the British establishment were misbehaving...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: 6 Killed in Clashes
At least six people were killed in Mogadishu, three in battles between troops and suspected Islamist rebels, while the bodies of three civilians were dumped at a busy intersection...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Alfonso López Michelsen, Dies at 94; Led Colombia in Unstable 1970s
Mr. López Michelsen led Colombia through turbulent times, when a national strike gripped the country and rioting in the capital left dozens dead...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Libya: Sarkozy?s Wife Meets Detained Nurses
Cecilia Sarkozy, the wife of France?s new president, visited five Bulgarian nurses in Libya who have been sentenced to death for infecting more than 400 children with H.I.V...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: 81 Migrants Found Trapped in Truck
Eighty-one illegal immigrants were discovered in a secret compartment in a truck near Monterrey after the driver fled and left them trapped and sweltering...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Nigeria: Fourth Child Kidnapped
Another toddler was kidnapped by gunmen in the volatile Niger Delta region, the fourth child in less than two months...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Clashes in Gaza and West Bank
An Israeli soldier was killed during a military incursion in the Gaza Strip, the first to be killed in combat since November 2006, an army spokesman said. Hamas claimed responsibility. On the West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man at a checkpoint near Tulkarm. An army spokeswoman said that the man, a member of Islamic Jihad, got out of his car and opened fire on the soldiers first. Three pipe bombs were found in the car...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Lebanon: Six Soldiers Killed
Six Lebanese soldiers were killed in fighting with militants inspired by Al Qaeda holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. In nearly eight weeks of fighting between the army and Fatah al Islam in and around the Nahr al Bared refugee camp, 178 people have been killed, including 90 soldiers and at least 68 militants...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Surge in Violence Continues
Six Afghan policemen traveling in an American-led military convoy were killed by a roadside bomb near Khost in southeast Afghanistan, a police official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility. In Helmand Province, a British soldier was shot dead, the British Defense Ministry said. A Dutch soldier wounded in a suicide bomb attack earlier this week died yesterday. The Taliban claimed to have killed 13 NATO soldiers in Helmand, a rebel spokesman said. Afghan troops backed by American-led forces killed 11 Taliban fighters during a five-hour battle in the southern province of Uruzgan, the military said...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Chechnya: Russia Liable in Disappearance
The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay damages to a Chechen man for the disappearance of his brother, who had been detained by Russian authorities in October 2000. The ruling, which blamed Russia for failing to make a record of the detention of Ayubkhan Magomadov, said that Russia had offered ?no plausible explanation as to what happened to him after his detention.? Mr. Magomadov is presumed dead, one of thousands of people thought to have been killed by police and soldiers during the Chechen war that began in 1999...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China: Floods Spur Mass Evacuations
Almost half a million people have been evacuated from a flood zone along the banks the Huai River in central China, as heavy rain caused the river to rise to its highest level in years, state media said. The evacuations took place in Anhui, left, Jiangsu and Henan Provinces, where several cities and transportation arteries risked inundation. Water from the Huai has been diverted to nearby rivers, but levels remain dangerously high, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Flooding in southern China has killed 360 people so far this summer, according to official reports...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Australia Cites Links Between Doctor and Bomb-Plot Suspects
The police in Australia have established links between an Indian doctor they arrested last week and the suspects in the failed London and Glasgow bombings...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Irish Protestant Parades Held Without Violence of the Past
Tens of thousands of Protestants marched without trouble through Northern Ireland?s streets on Thursday in an annual event that once ignited conflict with Catholics...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Oil Is Shipped to North Korea Under Nuclear Shutdown Pact
A South Korean ship loaded with 6,200 tons of heavy fuel oil left for North Korea on Thursday under an agreement intended to end the North?s nuclear program...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
China Bars U.S. Trip for Doctor Who Exposed SARS Cover-Up
Jiang Yanyong rose to international prominence in 2003, when he disclosed that at least 100 people were being treated in Beijing hospitals for SARS...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Kerem Shalom Journal: As Shells Fall, Goods Go to Gaza at ?Vineyard of Peace?
The Kerem Shalom border crossing handles truckloads of milk products, meat, medicines and eggs passed from Israel into Gaza every day...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Germans Weigh Civil Rights Against Public Safety
Germany, fearful of being the next major target for Islamic terrorists, is edging away from its deep aversion to intrusive and harsh enforcement tactics...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
News Analysis: Fending Off a Deadline: Bush Seeks Time on Iraq
President Bush?s Iraq strategy now boils down to this: He is trying to buy time for a surge that is living on borrowed time...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Musharraf Defends Raid that Ended Red Mosque Siege
?Wherever there is fundamentalism and extremism we have to finish that, destroy that,? President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said on Thursday...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
A Firm Bush Tells Congress Not to Dictate Policy on War
Hours later, the House responded by voting almost totally along party lines to require that the United States withdraw most combat troops from Iraq by April 1...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
Bush Distorts Qaeda Links, Critics Assert
President Bush?s critics argue that he has overstated the Qaeda connection in an attempt to exploit post-Sept. 11 emotions...
New York Times - July 13, 2007
No price cut for Euro PS3 console
Sony decides not to cut the price of PlayStation 3 in Europe and instead offers a bundle pack with games...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Little Britain to be made for US
Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams are to make a US version of the BBC comedy series...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Sun protection warnings ignored
Awareness of skin cancer is increasing but people are still not protecting themselves, warn experts...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Hariri panel 'has found suspects'
The panel investigating the murder of Lebanese ex-PM Rafik Hariri has identified suspects, investigators say...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
Crowd greets Beckhams in LA
David Beckham and his wife Victoria get star treatment as they arrive in LA to begin their new lives in the US...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
US 'dirty bomb' sting shows risk
US investigators posing as businessmen could have bought nuclear material for dirty bomb, Congress hears...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
UK hints at foreign policy shift
One of Gordon Brown's closest political allies signals a subtle change in foreign policy in a speech in the US...
BBC News - July 13, 2007
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