Portal:Current events/2007 July 12
Appearance
- The Archive-It
- 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)[permanent dead link]
- 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)
- 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 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:
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- 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)
- July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike
- An airstrike is carried out by two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, in the district of New Baghdad in Baghdad, during the occupation of Iraq. The helicopters carried out three airstrikes, killing several men—including Reuters news staff Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen—and wounding two children. (The Washington Post)
- 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 November 2006. (NYT)
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- 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 Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center after the shipment arrives. (BBC)
- The Prime Minister Guillaume Soro. (BBC)
- The Thoppigala. (BBC)
- The 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)