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Global News Archive for April 2007:
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Palestinian Interior Minister Tries to Resign
Hani al-Qawasmi was persuaded to stay on by the prime minister, Palestinian government officials said...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
News Analysis: Outcry Over Wall Shows Depth of Iraqi Resentment
Large crowds marched through Baghdad to protest the plan to build a wall around a mostly Sunni neighborhood...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
2 Sides in French Race Swing Toward the Center
The campaign entered a new phase today, as the winners of the first round began a battle for the 6.8 million voters who chose the path down the middle...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Spider-Man stars out for premiere
Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst greet fans at the European premiere of Spider-Man 3...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
NHS 'summer of discontent' fear
Hundreds of thousands of health workers could strike after Unison delegates reject a pay offer and called a ballot...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Sacked Ecuadorean MPs reinstated
Ecuador's top court reinstates 57 legislators sacked for opposing a referendum on constitutional change...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
US gives Sudan Darfur 'ultimatum'
The US says it expects Sudan to allow a strengthened UN peace keeping force into Darfur within weeks...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
MPs' info exemption bill revived
A bid to exempt MPs from transparency laws is to be debated again - after critics thought they had killed it...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
'Tables link' to heart death cut
Fewer people die following heart surgery when league tables are published, a study concludes...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Iraq blast damages British tank
A roadside bomb has badly damaged a Challenger 2 tank and seriously injured the driver, the MoD says...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
British soldier is killed in Iraq
A British soldier is killed by small arms fire while on patrol in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Officials Backing Down From Plan for Wall in Iraq
U.S. officials said they would respect the wishes of the Iraqi prime minister, who called for a halt to construction...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Nigeria Opposition Rejects Election as Winner Declared
Partial results from Saturday?s election, which was marred by widespread fraud, showed a landslide victory for the governing party?s candidate...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Boris Yeltsin, Russia?s First Post-Soviet Leader, Is Dead
Boris N. Yeltsin, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union to become the first freely elected leader of Russia, has died at 76, the Kremlin said today...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Spider stars set for UK premiere
Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are expected on the red carpet for the UK premiere of Spider-Man 3...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Football: Ferguson confident
Sir Alex Ferguson is not worried by Man Utd's lengthy injury list ahead of the Champions League tie against AC Milan...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Spacecraft return 3D Sun pictures
Twin Nasa spacecraft capture 3D images that will aid the study of solar explosions capable of causing havoc on Earth...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Blair tribute to Yeltsin's role
Prime Minister Tony Blair leads tribute to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who has died aged 76...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
GAA star fined for dangerous dog
A Tyrone GAA football star is fined £650 after pleading guilty to possession of a dangerous dog...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Four charged over sham marriages
Four people appear in court charged with arranging sham marriages to avoid immigration laws...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Quarry firm outlines £23m fraud
Alfred McAlpine says managers at its Gwynedd quarry committed "extensive and systematic" fraud...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Lanka aid killings probe 'flawed'
A Sri Lankan police investigation into the killing of 17 aid workers is seriously flawed, legal experts say...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Man jailed over baby killing
A 21-year-old man found guilty of abducting and killing a six-month-old boy is jailed indefinitely...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Munch art thieves jailed in Oslo
Three men in Norway receive prison terms for the theft of Edvard Munch's masterpiece, the Scream...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Many dead in fresh Iraq attacks
The new US ambassador talks of critical months ahead for Iraq, and defends the idea of a wall in central Baghdad...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Director attacks Games arts cuts
Theatre director Nicholas Hytner says the cuts in arts funding to pay for the 2012 Olympics are "illogical"...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Shelling traps Somalis in capital
Residents are trapped amid heavy shelling as Ethiopian tanks pursue insurgents in northern Mogadishu...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Runner, 22, dies after marathon
A 22-year-old runner who was taken ill after completing the London Marathon dies in hospital...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Yar'Adua named Nigeria leader
Ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua is declared the winner of Nigeria's controversial presidential poll...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Impact of sewage leak assessed
Environmental officers begin an assessment of the effects of a major sewage leak into the Firth of Forth...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
UK tank penetrated by Iraq bomb
A roadside bomb has badly damaged a Challenger 2 tank and seriously injured the driver, the MoD says...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Virginia students return to class
A balloon is released for each of those killed at Virginia Tech last week, as students prepare to return to class...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
British soldier is killed in Iraq
A British soldier is killed by small arms fire while on patrol in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
GMTV drops its phone-in provider
Broadcaster GMTV drops the company which provides its phone-in services after discovering "irregularities"...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies
Russia's first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin - who played a key role in the demise of the Soviet Union and introduced painful market reforms - has died of heart failure in Moscow aged 76...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
U.S. Knew of China Missile Test, but Kept Silent
Some experts say American officials might have been able to discourage the Chinese from launching the antisatellite missile...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Voting Sets Up Left-Right Duel to Lead France
The presidential election is now a classic battle between two candidates with competing visions of how to govern France...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Switch on for Square Mile wi-fi
The City of London fires up its first mesh wi-fi network, promising access from anywhere in the Square Mile...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
UK space 'needs Nasa-like agency'
The Royal Society is calling for a new UK space agency to replace the existing British National Space Centre...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
The Producers' Broadway run ends
Mel Brooks' smash hit Broadway musical The Producers closes after six years on stage...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Miliband 'never considered bid'
Environment Secretary David Miliband says he never considered challenging Gordon Brown for Labour leader...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
More unions threaten pay action
Two more health unions could ballot for action in bitter rows over this year's pay awards...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Teachers want wi-fi risk research
A teachers' union is writing to the education secretary calling for more research into the safety of wi-fi...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
UK economy 'skating on thin ice'
A report from Ernst & Young says businesses and consumers spend as if it is going out of fashion...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
SF policing board nominees named
Sinn Fein announces its three party nominees to sit on a newly reconstituted Northern Ireland Policing Board...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Expert examined Angelika scene
A forensic scientist tells the Angelika Kluk murder trial how she spent three hours in the victim's temporary tomb...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Row over 'richer families' claim
A Labour claim that the 'representative family' is £5,000 better off post-devolution provokes angry response...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
India commercial rocket takes off
India's first commercial space launch blasts off and will shortly put an Italian satellite into orbit...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Man stabbed amid festival trouble
A man is stabbed and more than 10 people injured as violence erupts during a Sikh festival in the West Midlands...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Greek jet makes emergency landing
A Greek plane makes an emergency landing at Munich airport after a bomb threat, officials say...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Seoul bid to solve North bank row
South Korea's nuclear envoy heads to the US to discuss a bank dispute threatening North Korea nuclear progress...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Football: Mourinho fumes at 'bias'
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says their title bid is being undermined by decisions in favour of Man Utd...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Marathon: Runner, 22, dies
A 22-year-old runner who was taken ill after completing the London Marathon dies...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
'Flawed' Nigeria poll results due
Results from Nigeria's widely criticised elections are due to be announced, amid tight security in the capital...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Ration TV for children, MPs urged
The amount of time children spend watching television should be rationed, an expert will tell MPs...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Cadbury faces salmonella action
Cadbury Schweppes is to be prosecuted over the salmonella outbreak which forced it to recall one million bars of chocolate...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
'Critical time' for Iraq security
The new US ambassador talks of critical months ahead for Iraq, and defends the idea of a wall in central Baghdad...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Engineers halt Firth sewage leak
Emergency pumps are used to stop a massive discharge of sewage into the Firth of Forth...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Bomb penetrates British tank in Iraq
A roadside bomb has penetrated a Challenger 2 tank and seriously injured the driver, the MoD says...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Barclays agrees £45bn Dutch deal
Barclays agrees to buy ABN Amro for about £45bn, but the Dutch bank is also talking to a rival consortium...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Viewers 'lose millions' to GMTV
GMTV suspends phone-ins after a BBC investigation finds callers have been defrauded out of millions of pounds...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
French contenders set for run-off
The top two candidates from the first round of France's presidential elections launch their final campaigns...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Johannesburg Journal: South Africa vs. Itself, in Race to Get Ready for World Cup
For South Africa, hosting the World Soccer Cup in 2010 is a chance to erase a whole host of stereotypes about Africa and its people...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Iraqi Premier Orders Work Stopped on Wall
The wall, which would have isolated a Sunni neighborhood, came under criticism from both Sunni Arab and Shiite parties...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
Afghan Bombings Kill 9 and Wound More Than 40
Two bombings, one of them a suicide attack, rocked the eastern town of Khost on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding more than 40, officials said...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
A Conservative Faces a Socialist in French Runoff
The first round of Sunday?s presidential election has set up a classic left-right contest between two candidates with competing visions of how to govern...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
News Analysis: Africa?s Crisis of Democracy
Analysts said the Nigerian vote showed that many African voters are steadily losing confidence in their democracies...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
U.S. Knew of China?s Missile Test, but Kept Silent
Some experts say that American officials might have been able to discourage the Chinese from launching the antisatellite missile...
New York Times - April 23, 2007
New GCSE builds teenagers' skills
Skills envoy Sir Digby Jones says a construction GCSE can help tackle the UK skills "famine"...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Fat-fighting baby milk criticised
Experts criticise a plan to add a hormone which controls hunger to baby formula food...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Barclays agrees £90bn Dutch deal
Barclays agrees a deal to buy the ABN Amro for about £90bn but the Dutch bank is also talking to a rival consortium...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
SNP efforts to net votes online
Sir Sean Connery is to launch an online television station on behalf of the SNP's campaign for the Holyrood election...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
EU ministers to weigh Iran moves
EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions and EU relations with Russia...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Multi-faith appeal for Johnston
A multi-faith service is to be held later in London to call for the safe return of the BBC's Alan Johnston...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Cameron's 'manifesto' for society
Conservative leader David Cameron is calling for a "revolution in responsibility" to counter anti-social behaviour...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
House prices top £100,000
Every town in the UK has an average house price above £100,000, according to Halifax...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
US mourns Virginia victims
Memorial services are held across the US for the 32 people gunned down at Virginia Tech university...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
More patients 'top up' NHS care
More patients will have to pay for private care because of NHS cuts and waiting times, says a group of doctors...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
Call to ration TV for children
The amount of time time children spend watching television should be rationed, an expert will tell MPs...
BBC News - April 23, 2007
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