World Events 2007

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(April) A "breakthrough" technique for converting donated blood from other blood types to Type O for blood transfusion is announced.

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(Feb) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his administration is open to negotiations regarding its nuclear program.

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(March) Britain releases a school uniform policy allowing schools to ban the niqab or full-face veil for girls.

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(March) 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.

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(May) Footage showing seventeen-year-old Kurdish girl Du’a Khalil Aswad being stoned to death for having a relationship with a Sunni boy is posted on YouTube.

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(Jan) Quadrantids meteor shower of 2007: An irregular metallic object, the size of a golf ball and the weight of a can of soup, severely damages a house in Freehold Township, New Jersey. No one is injured.

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(April) 80,000 people gather throughout the United States joining 'Displace Me' to raise awareness of displaced refugees in Northern Uganda.

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(April) Astronomers announce the discovery of the Earth-like exoplanet Gliese 581 c, which may support liquid water and is potentially habitable.

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(April) Colorado State University experts forecast a very active 2007 Atlantic hurricane season with 17 named storms, 9 hurricanes and 5 intense hurricanes.

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(April) Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin dies at the age of 76.

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(April) Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin dies at the age of 76.

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(April) Iran announces plans for two more nuclear reactors.

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(April) New Hampshire became "...the first state to embrace same-sex unions without a court order or the threat of one."

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(April) North Korea and Myanmar restore diplomatic relations after a break of more than 20 years.

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(April) North Korea and Myanmar restore diplomatic relations after a break of more than 20 years.

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(April) North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dismisses Prime Minister Pak Pong-ju and appoints Kim Yong-il in his place.

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(April) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran announces that his country can now produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.

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(April) Seven French doctors will face charges related to the deaths of 110 patients who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after taking growth hormones in the 1980s.

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(April) Sudan agrees to allow 3,000 United Nations troops in Darfur to support a 7,000 strong African Union force.

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(April) The 14th annual summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) begins in New Delhi, India, and Afghanistan becomes its 8th member.

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(April) The United States and Australia issue travel advisories warning their citizens not to go to the Philippines due to a potentially imminent terrorist threat.

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(April) The United States Department of Veterans Affairs allows the Wiccan pentagram to be used on the tombstones of deceased soldiers.

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(April) The United States extends the tour of duty for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from a year to 15 months.

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(April) The United States extends the tour of duty for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from a year to 15 months.

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(April) The United States Supreme Court rules that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases and must do so unless it can provide some scientific reason proving otherwise.

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(April) Turkey Christians tortured and murdered and Turkey's government, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former Islamist, has expresses concern over the spread of Christian activity in Turkey, VOA reported

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(April) U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) submits Resolution HRES 333, calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

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(April) Wal-Mart retakes the #1 position on the 2007 Fortune 500 list with US$351.1 billion in revenue for F/Y 2006, beating previous #1 ExxonMobil by $3.9 billion.

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(Feb) Al Gore announces plans for Live Earth concerts across seven continents in July 2007 to raise awareness of global warming.

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(Feb) Ali Hassan Al Majeed, commonly known as Chemical Ali, admits he ordered Iraqi troops to engage in genocide against the Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan. He says the "emptying" of villages was justified because the Kurds assisted Iran forces in the Ira

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(Feb) An outbreak of the deadly strain of avian flu, H5N1, is confirmed at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, Suffolk in the United Kingdom.

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(Feb) Democratic Party officials in the U.S. Congress have warned President Bush that he does not have the authority to go to war with Iran.

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(Feb) Hassan Nasrallah, head of Hezbollah, openly states for the first time that the governments of Iran and Syria are supporting Hezbollah financially, with weapons, and with training, and "everybody knows it."

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(Feb) Russia investigates smelly orange snow, oily to touch, which has fallen across an area of 1500 square kilometres in the Omsk region of the country.

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(Feb) South Korea agrees to resume high level talks with North Korea following the deal over North Korea's nuclear program.

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(Feb) Talpiot Tomb: Film director James Cameron claims to have found ossuaries that once contained the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, his disciple Mary Magdalene, and their son, named Judah.

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(Feb) The G8 countries, plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, approve the 'Washington Declaration,' proposing a global Carbon emissions trading system to replace the Kyoto Protocol by 2009.

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(Feb) The United States and South Korea reach agreement to return control over South Korea's military to South Korea by 2012.

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(Feb) United States presidential election, 2008: Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) officially announces his candidacy for president during a speech at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.

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(Jan) Slovenia adopts the euro, replacing the tolar and becoming the second enlargement to the eurozone.

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(Jan) A prison guard is arrested in Baghdad under suspicion of secretly filming the execution of Saddam Hussein using a mobile phone and publishing the video on the Internet.

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(Jan) A report by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that twenty-six of their employees witnessed abuse at the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba.

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(Jan) Former US President Gerald Ford's state funeral takes place at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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(Jan) In Switzerland civil unions for same-sex partners are possible.

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(Jan) Nancy Pelosi is elected speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and becomes the first woman to hold that post.

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(Jan) Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union.

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(Jan) Seven policemen charged in a deadly Danziger Bridge shooting in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina turn themselves in at a New Orleans city jail.

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(Jan) The North Korean Korean Central News Agency reports that Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun has died, without describing the cause of death.

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(March) Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the United States, acknowledges that mistakes were made in the handling of the firing of eight federal prosecutors.

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(March) Amnesty International calls on governments not to co-operate with U.S. military in trials of detainees at Guantánamo Bay.

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