Portal:Current events/2007 July 4
July 4, 2007 (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