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July 2007 is the seventh month of that year. It began on a Sunday and 31 days later, ended on a Tuesday.

International holidays

July 1 - Canada Day (Canada)
July 1 - July Morning (Bulgaria)
July 1 - Republic Day (Ghana)
July 3 - Independence Day (Belarus)
July 4 - Independence Day (United States)
July 5 - Independence Day (Venezuela)
July 6 - Independence Day (Malawi)
July 7 - Saba Saba Day, Tanzania
July 7 - San Fermin (Pamplona and Spain)

July 7 - Tanabata (Japan)
July 9 - Independence Day (Argentina)
July 14 - Bastille Day (France)
July 20 - Independence Day (Colombia)
July 21 - Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
July 21 - Independence Day (Belgium)
July 24 - Tisha B'Av (Jewish)
July 25 - Commonwealth Day (Puerto Rico)
July 28 - Independence Day (Peru)

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July 1, 2007 (Sunday)

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Police conduct a controlled explosion of a suspicious car in a carpark of the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where two suspects in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack are being held. (CNN)
Authorities evacuate part of Heathrow Airport while they investigate a suspect package. (Reuters)
An evacuation is made of the American Airlines terminal of JFK airport because of a suspicious package. The package was found at 10:20 AM local time, and bomb squad was sent to the scene. The package turned out to be carrying cologne, so the terminal was cleared and operations returned to normal within an hour. (Newsday) (San Jose Mercury News) (Wikinews)
Avraham Hirschson resigns as the Finance Minister of Israel as an investigation into alleged fraud and embezzlement continues. (JTA)
The Australian government upgrades its travel alert for the United Kingdom following the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs discovery. (Reuters)
A helicopter crash in the Raveau forest near the town La Charité-sur-Loire in central France kills three people involved in the French Grand Prix and injures two. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
The African Union meets in Accra, Ghana, for a summit with attention focussed on a proposal by Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya for a pan-African government. (BBC)
Chinese archaeologists have found a hidden underground chamber within the tomb of Qin Shi Huang. (BBC)
The Concert for Diana occurs at the new Wembley Stadium on what would have been Princess Diana's 46th birthday. (BBC)
Canada celebrates its 140th anniversary. Canada Day marks the creation of the Dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867. (CBC)
Alison Brimelow becomes President of the European Patent Office. (The Lawyer)

July 2, 2007 (Monday)

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Garda Síochána find over 1.5 tonnes of cocaine worth over €105 million off the coast of West Cork after a small ship sinks - the largest cocaine seizure in the history of Ireland. The naval diving squad are continuing the search, as experts believe more of the drug is still in the sea. (RTÉ)
Brahim Déby, heir apparent to President Idriss Déby of Chad, is murdered in Paris, France. (IHT)
U.S. President George W. Bush commutes Scooter Libby's prison sentence with a Grant of Executive Clemency for his role in the Plame Affair. (Reuters) (Whitehouse.gov)
U.S. President George W. Bush holds talks with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Kennebunkport, Maine discussing missile defense and Iran. (AP via NYT)
The Carlyle Group offers somewhere between £4 billion and £5 billion for the purchase of heavily-indebted Virgin Media. (WSJ)
Eight people die in a car bomb explosion at a tourist site in Yemen. (Sky)
The United States accuses Iran of using Hezbollah to train Shia militants in Iraq. The Iranian Defence Minister had earlier called the US the "biggest sponsor of terrorism" in the world. (BBC) (Press TV)
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas K. Mooney, the military attaché at the United States Embassy is found dead in western Cyprus. (AP via IHT)
Wesfarmers buys Coles Group for $A22 billion in Australia's biggest corporate deal. (Sydney Morning Herald)
British detectives continue the hunt for suspects in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs plot. Two doctors are among the seven people currently in custody in the UK in connection with the attacks with another person held in Brisbane, Queensland. (BBC) (BBC) (BBC) (The Melbourne Age)
Corporal Bill Henry "Willie" Apiata of the Special Air Service of New Zealand is awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery under fire in Afghanistan in 2004. (ABC News Australia)
The trial over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink opens in Istanbul, Turkey. (BBC)

July 3, 2007 (Tuesday)

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United States counterterrorism experts say some of the men arrested in connection to terror plots in the United Kingdom had links to al-Qaeda in Iraq. (CNN)
The British government will designate and ban Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh as terrorist organizations. (Nasdaq)
Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor makes a surprise appearance at his trial for military atrocities in The Hague. (Associated Press, via the Washington Post)
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says she will return to Pakistan and is considering contesting the next presidential election. (IHT)
Lal Masjid clashes: At least seven people have been killed in clashes between security forces and militant students at a mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. (BBC)
Ghana redenominates Ghanaian cedi. The new currency starts exchanging at GH¢ 0.92 to the US dollar, the highest valued African currency. (Ghanaweb.com) (MyJoyOnline)
Japan's Minister for Defense Fumio Kyuma resigns over comments he made about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the weekend. (BBC)
Alinghi beats Emirates Team New Zealand in the final race of the 2007 America's Cup, winning the regatta 5-2. (NZ Herald)

July 4, 2007 (Wednesday)

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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)

July 5, 2007 (Thursday)

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Scientists announce the discovery of a new species of cephalopod, dubbed 'octosquid', found off the coast of Hawaii. (Star Bulletin)
A gunman opens fire at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, wounding three before being captured. (Los Angeles Times)
The Nigerian kidnappers of three-year-old British toddler Margaret Hill threaten to kill her, unless her father, Port Harcourt bar owner Mike Hill, takes her place. (Middle East Times)
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hits the southern state of Chiapas in Mexico. (Reuters)
Bahrain will no longer participate in the Arab League boycott of Israel. (GulfNews)
A Belgian court sentences former Rwandan army major Bernard Ntuyahaga to twenty years in jail for the murder of 10 Belgian Army peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the Rwandan genocide. (Reuters via CNN)
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions votes to strike for higher wages as inflation in Zimbabwe rises above 10,000%. (allAfrica)
Nine people are killed at Culiacán International Airport in the Mexican state of Sinaloa as a cargo aircraft fails to take off and careens across a roadway, hitting several vehicles and business premises. (BBC News)
An armed man holds several people hostage at a bank in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil. The situation is resolved without injury. (CTV)
Two die and seven are seriously injured when a small plane crashes after missing the runway at Aerfort na Minna, in County Galway, Ireland. (RTÉ)
12 boats capsize during a junior regatta in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, on the Irish Sea, with 120 children swept out to sea. All have been rescued, according to the Irish Coast Guard, although 15 have been brought to hospital. (RTÉ)
Eleven people are injured when a staircase collapses at the Natural History Museum in Dublin. (RTÉ)
Russia has officially declined a request by the UK to extradite Andrei Lugovoi for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Russia's constitution bars extradition of its citizens. (The Guardian)
A study at the University of Jordan concluded that the country's economic problems are not a result of the 750,000 Iraqi refugees who have sought sanctuary there. Iraqi refugees now comprise over 10% of the Jordanian population. (Press TV)
On the 25th anniversary of their captivity, the Iranian government announces that Iranian diplomats Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam are still alive and being held in Israeli jails. The men were captured in 1982 in Lebanon. (PressTV)
Eleven people are injured after a London Underground train derails, leaving hundreds of passengers trapped in an east London tunnel. (The Telegraph) (thelondonpaper)
Armed residents of the Indian state of Nagaland burn down villages in the neighbouring state of Assam. (BBC)
Pakistani forces demolish the front walls of the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad. (CNN)
Twenty-five people died and 33 are injured in an explosion in a karaoke bar in Tianshifu in northeast China. (AFP via ABC News Australia)

July 6, 2007 (Friday)

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The 6th United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio rejects a lawsuit against George W. Bush's domestic wiretapping program, saying that the plaintiffs did not have the right to sue. (CNET News)
Newly declassified French government documents show that as President François Mitterrand knowingly supported the Rwandan Genocide because he believed it would limit "Anglo-Saxon influence." (The Independent)
Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah is charged for his alleged involvement in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. (BBC)
Australian authorities increase security as the interrogation of Dr. Mohamed Haneef over his possible involvement in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs incidents continues. The Australian Federal Police conducts raids on two hospitals in Perth, Western Australia. (Reuters) (AP via the Houston Chronicle)
The No.1 Intermediate Court in Beijing sentences former State Food and Drug Administration chief Cao Wenzhuang to death with a two-year reprieve on charges of corruption. (NYT)
An investigation concludes that an explosion in Tianshifu, China that killed 25 was caused by improperly stored explosives. (Wikinews)

July 7, 2007 (Saturday)

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Pope Benedict XVI removes restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving an ancient Roman Rite Mass liturgy that was essentially abolished during the Second Vatican Council in 1962. (Wahington Post via AP)
The New Seven Wonders of the World are announced. These are The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil, Machu Picchu in Peru, Mexico's Chichen Itza Mayan site, the Colosseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
A bus crash in Java kills at least 14 people. 48 people were injured, many seriously. (AP via the Guardian)
2007 Amirli bombing: At least 105 people are killed when a suicide truck bomber attacks a market in Amirli in northern Iraq with a majority Shiite Turkmen population. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
The Government of Afghanistan states that it will investigate claims that United States and NATO air strikes caused heavy civilian casualties in Farah Province and Kunar Province. (Reuters)
Live Earth gets underway with concerts in Australia, the United States, Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and China. (Sydney Morning Herald)
King Gyanendra of Nepal celebrates his 60th birthday amid protests by students and youth wings of eight ruling parties.

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July 9, 2007 (Monday)

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A Piper Cherokee fixed-wing single engine airplane crashes during thunderstorms in Tyringham, Massachusetts, killing the two people on the plane. (The Berkshire Eagle)
Andrzej Lepper is sacked as the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland over allegations of corruption involving his Samoobrona party with the prospect of an early election. (Interfax Central Europe)
United States Senator David Vitter of Louisiana apologises after his name is found on a list associated with an escort agency operated by the so-called D.C. Madam. (AP via the Guardian)
Lal Masjid siege: An attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the seven-day standoff at Islamabad's Red Mosque ends without any progress. (Al jazeera)
Four men are found guilty of conspiracy to murder over the failed terror attacks on the London Underground on July 21, 2005. (Sky)
The Election Commission of India issues notification for the election of the next Vice President of India. The election is scheduled to be held on August 10, 2007.
On the country's Independence Day, snow falls in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the first time in 89 years and the second time in recorded history. Two people die of exposure in Argentina while one person dies in Chile. (BBC)
The Arab League agrees to send a delegation to Israel for the first time. (AP via CNN)
The Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell orders a partial shutdown of state government functions following the failure of state legislators to agree on a budget. (AP via the Daily Review)

July 10, 2007 (Tuesday)

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces plans to build a nuclear-powered submarine to patrol the waters off Brazil's coast at a cost of US$500 million. (Reuters Alertnet)
Mexico's Interior Ministry increases security on strategic installations following attacks on pipelines. The People's Revolutionary Army (EPR) has claimed responsibility. (AP via Forbes)
The Gadhafi Foundation announces a deal has been reached with families of more than 400 children infected with HIV in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor. (AP via the Guardian)
The European Union chooses Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its nominee to head the International Monetary Fund, making him the frontrunner to fill the position in October. (AP via the NYT)
All 24 police officers missing after a fight between police and Maoist insurgents in Chhattisgarh central India have been found dead. (Reuters via News Limited)
Amy St. Eve, the judge in the Conrad Black fraud case, orders the jury to go back to work after it advised her that it couldn't reach a verdict on all the counts before it. (Canadian Press via the Edmonton Sun)
Raúl Castro, the interim leader of Cuba, sets a date in late October for local elections. (CBC)
Chester Turner is sentenced to death for the murder of ten women and an unborn child in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s and 1990s. (AP via the IHT)
Pope Benedict XVI approves a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which redeclares the doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, that only the Roman Catholic Church is the true Christian church, and no other Christian denomination has the "means of salvation." (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mortars hit the Green Zone in Baghdad. The Green Zone has been attacked at least 80 times since March, killing 26. (CBS News)
A Cessna 310 registered to the Competitor Liaison Bureau, an arm of NASCAR, attempting an emergency landing at Orlando Sanford International Airport crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida. Three people in one of the homes are critically injured, and a fourth person, a four-year-old girl, died; an off-duty firefighter that first responded to the scene was also injured. Two people in the other house and both the pilot and passenger in the Cessna are killed; the passenger was Dr. Bruce Kennedy, husband of International Speedway Corporation president Lesa Kennedy and brother-in-law of NASCAR chief Brian France. (WESH.com)
Julian Moti is appointed as the Attorney-General of the Solomon Islands despite being wanted in Australia on child sex charges. (AAP via News Limited)
Simón Trinidad, a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is found guilty of conspiracy to hold three Americans hostage by a U.S. court. (BBC)
In observance of Captive Nations Week, there was a brief ceremony and laying of a wreath today at the Victims of Communism Memorial, Massachusetts and New Jersey Avenues, NW, Washington, DC. On 10 July, George W. Bush issued a Proclamation, designating July 15 through 21 as Captive Nations Week and called upon the American people to reaffirm the country's "commitment to all those seeking liberty, justice and self-determination." This year marks the 49th observance of Captive Nations Week. (The White House)
Thailand's highest court rules that a corruption case may proceed against former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra. (ABC News Australia)
China executes the former head of the State Food and Drug Association Zheng Xiaoyu for corruption. (MSNBC)
A Tamil man from Sydney is charged with multiple terrorism charges over alleged links with the Tamil Tigers. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Pakistani forces storm the Lal Masjid Mosque in Islamabad, bringing the Lal Masjid siege to an end. At least 3 soldiers and 40 militants die in the assault. (Reuters) (FOX). Abdul Rashid Ghazi, a top clerics was confirmed dead according to Interior ministry sources.

July 11, 2007 (Wednesday)

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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed the destruction of the entire chemical weapons stockpile in Albania.(AP)
South Dakota executes Elijah Page for murder, the first execution in the state in 60 years.(Reuters)
The British Museum states that the Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet, a clay tablet dating from 695 BC, contains a cuneiform inscription confirming the existence of a figure mentioned in the Old Testament. (The Australian)
The Pakistan Army claims that Operation Silence at the Lal Masjid is in its final stages and that 95% of the complex is under its control. It has found the bodies of 73 militants. (CNN)
Four people who carried out failed suicide bombings in London are jailed for life, with no chance of release for at least 40 years. In passing the sentence, the judge ruled that the plot was "part of an al-Qaida inspired and controlled sequence of attacks", although the British government has always claimed the attacks were "home grown", and not connected to al-Qaida. (Guardian) (Guardian)
Indonesia evacuates thousands of people living near Mount Gamkonora as it appears likely to explode. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
14 Philippines Marines are killed by insurgents in fighting. (BBC)
The Supreme Court of Libya upholds the death penalty for the six Bulgarian medics and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting children with HIV. (AP)
The People's Republic of China bans diethylene glycol as an ingredient in toothpaste. (Reuters)
A Chilean court rejects the extradition of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. (BBC)

July 12, 2007 (Thursday)

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The African kingdom of Lesotho declares a food crisis due to UN report showing a "major food gap" for 20% of the population. (Reuters)
Two British teenagers are arrested at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, for attempting to smuggle 6.5 kg of cocaine worth £300,000 to the UK.(BBC)
An attorney convicted of leaking evidence given by U.S. baseball player Barry Bonds and other athletes from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) Inquiry is sentenced to two and a half years in prison. (AP via San Jose Mercury News)
A Mexican federal court suspends the genocide trial of former President Luis Echeverría. (BBC)
The Spanish Civil Guard raids a boat operated by Odyssey Marine Exploration that it claims may have taken treasure worth hundreds of millions of dollars from a Spanish galleon. (Reuters via ABC News Australia) (BBC)
Cécilia Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, flies to Libya and visits the Bulgarian medics condemned to death for allegedly infecting children with HIV and also the families of the infected children. She will also meet Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, the President of Libya. (BBC)
The Nepalese government introduces a budget that scraps payments to King Gyanendra of Nepal and nationalises royal property. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
The Lebanese army has resumed shelling Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli. All of the refugees have left the camp after recent fighting. (BBC)
A Philippines ferry, the MV Blue Water Princess, sinks off the southeastern coast of Luzon, leading to four deaths and 18 people being declared missing. (News Limited)
Iraq War:
- An interim report says the Iraqi government has made "mixed progress" on the goals set out by the U.S. Congress. (BBC) (NYT) (WSJ)
- The United States House of Representatives votes 223-201 to withdraw United States troops from Iraq. President George W. Bush has threatened to veto the Bill. (Bloomberg)
Al-Qaeda:
- A National Counterterrorism Center report claims that Al-Qaeda has "regrouped to an extent not seen since 2001." (BBC)
- At a press conference, U.S. President George W. Bush denies the report, saying that it is "simply not the case." (BBC)
Six Afghan policemen are killed by an improvised explosive device in the Khost Province. Another IED kills two civilians in the Paktika Province. (BBC)
An Israeli soldier is killed by Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip. It is the first Israeli combat casualty since November 2006. (NYT)
Six Swiss Army recruits are killed by an avalanche on the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland. (BBC)
A false alarm causes the diversion of American Airlines Flight 136. The plane crew was concerned that a passenger of Middle Eastern descent might have bypassed security controls. (BBC)
A ship carrying oil for fuel to North Korea departs from South Korea. The government of North Korea may close the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center after the shipment arrives. (BBC)
The government of Côte d'Ivoire decides to ask the United Nations to probe the failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister Guillaume Soro. (BBC)
President Pervez Musharraf praises the military for ending the Lal Masjid siege and vows to eradicate terrorism from Pakistan. (BBC)
The government of Sri Lanka plans to hold a "victory party" in Colombo after the fall of the last Tamil Tiger base in Thoppigala. (BBC)
The government of Liberia submits a bill to the Parliament which would allow the seizure of the assets of former President Charles G. Taylor, his relatives and associates. (BBC)
At a press conference, U.S. President George W. Bush admits for the first time that someone in his administration may have leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame. (WSJ)

July 13, 2007 (Friday)

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The Fifteenth Pan American Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Official Website)
Conrad Black is found guilty on three charges of fraud and one charge of obstruction of justice in Chicago. (BBC)
The world's third largest optical telescope, the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias on the island of La Palma, starts its commissioning observations. (The Guardian) (BBC)
Indonesia and the Philippines agree to expand intelligence sharing with hopes that it will help track down two suspects in the 2002 Bali bombings. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency reach agreement on resolving the disputes over the Iranian nuclear program. (Reuters)
Typhoon Man-yi:
- The death toll in the sinking of the MV Blue Water Princess of the coast of Luzon in the Philippines rises to 15. (Fox News)
- Okinawa, Japan suffers blackouts and flights are cancelled to and from the island as the typhoon passes through the island prefecture. (Reuters via News Limited)
North Korea's military seeks talks with the United States to discuss "peace and security on the Korean peninsula." (BBC)

July 14, 2007 (Saturday)

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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül asked the US for an explanation of alleged delivery of weapons to the PKK terrorist group. Gül said that ties with Turkey-US would collapse if arms to PKK claims confirmed. (Jerusalem Post) (Today Zeman) (PressTV)
Waziristan conflict (July 2007-present): At least 24 Pakistani soldiers are killed by a suicide attack by militants on a convoy in Waziristan near the Afghanistan border. (AP via Edmonton Sun)
Ten Sri Lankan soldiers die in fighting the Tamil Tigers in the Vavuniya district of northern Sri Lanka. (AP via Washington Post)
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sexual abuse claims against its clergy at a cost of $ 600 million. (Fox News)
Iranian state radio reports that a South Korean flagged ship has sunk in the Sea of Oman off the coast of Iran with 13 crew members missing. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
The President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs a decree suspending Russia's participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) pact. (Reuters)
A shipment of fuel oil arrives in North Korea as part of an agreement to end its nuclear program. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors are monitoring the shutdown of the Yongbyon reactor. North Korea later advises that it has shut the reactor down. (BBC via ABC News Australia) (AP via Jerusalem Post)
The Australian Federal Police charge Dr. Mohamed Haneef with "providing support to a terrorist organization" in relation to the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs. (BBC)
The Royal Malaysian Police obtain a remand order to hold Nathaniel Tan for four days in connection to an investigation of a violation of section 8 of the Official Secrets Act, which pertains to "wrongful communication" of an official secret. (The Star, Malaysia)

July 15, 2007 (Sunday)

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Sudan and a breakaway faction of the Justice and Equality Movement of Darfur sign a peace treaty. (Sudan Tribune)
Two doctors arrested at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, Scotland in connection with 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack were released without any charges.
A law legalising abortion in the first ten weeks of pregnancy comes into effect in Portugal. (Reuters via News Limited)
A Somali peace conference in Mogadishu gets off to a bad start as it is disrupted by mortar shells. (AFP via ABC)
Shimon Peres is sworn in as the President of Israel. (Reuters via News Limited)
Two scientists Gert van der Heijden and Eugene Starostin claim that they have solved a 75-year-old problem related to developable surfaces and the Möbius strip. (Nature)
Australia extradites Antun Gudelj to Croatia for the 1991 murder of Josip Reihl-Kir, the police chief of Osijek and two associates - this event fueled tensions during the Croatian War of Independence. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
Waziristan conflict (July 2007-present):
- Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region say they have ended their truce with the government. (BBC)
- Two suicide bombings in northwestern Pakistan kill at least 31 people. (CNN)
Brazil defeats Argentina 3-0 in the 2007 Copa América final. (Brisbane Times)

July 16, 2007 (Monday)

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Felisa Miceli, the Argentine Economy Minister, resigns over approximately $60,000 found in a bag in her office. (Reuters via the Scotsman)
The President of the United States George W. Bush and the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński agree to proceed with building a missile defense system in Europe despite Russian concerns. (Reuters)
The President of the United States announces a Middle East peace conference in the fall involving Israel, Palestinians and neighboring countries.