Portal:Current events/2007 February 11
- Hutch Essar, for $11.1 billion. (BBC) (Economic Times)
- Nine people are shot dead in Rio de Janeiro as police battle drug gangs and private militias for control of the favelas or shanty towns. (BBC)
- The Queen wins the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Film of 2006 with Helen Mirren winning the award as Best Actress. Forest Whitaker wins the Best Actor award for his role in the The Last King of Scotland which won the Best British Film Award. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Grammy Awards). (Billboard) (Yahoo Music).
- Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates to say abortion will be legalized through the parliament. (BBC)
- Islamist insurgency in Somalia:
- An explosion at a ceremony in Kismayo kills at least four people and injures 24 others, including senior military officers and regional leaders. General Abdi Mahdi, the recently appointed Somali military chief, is among the injured. (Aljazeera)
- Mortar attacks in two areas of PRMLTM said it increase attacks. (Aljazeera)
- Two people die in protests in
- Iran:
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- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed calls by Western countries for Iran to suspend its nuclear program. (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
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- Voters in first presidential election to select a successor to former President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov. Interim leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is widely expected to win the election. (BBC)
- kidnapping and murdering of two Nurbank officials. (EurasiaNet)
- A top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been suspended from her job for six months while a corruption inquiry is conducted, officials say. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- The National Court of Spain finds five out of six Algerianmen guilty of membership in a terrorist organization and document forgery for terrorist purposes, sentencing each of them to 13 years imprisonment. All six were acquitted of conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack