Portal:Current events/2007 August 6

August 6, 2007 (Monday)

Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer gave a mandate to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to form his second cabinet following a landslide victory for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the general elections. (Turkish Daily News)
Mexico and Brazil sign an agreement on developing technology for oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation involving co-operation between Pemex and Petrobras. (AP via IHT)
The Lebanese government claim that the police have killed Abu Hureira, the second in command of Fatah al-Islam. (AP via Forbes)
Trinidad Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls orders the extradition of three men to the United States to face charges of involvement in a terrorist attack on John F. Kennedy Airport. (New York Times)
United States District Court judge Ronald Whyte strikes down a California law aiming to prohibit minors from buying or renting violent video games on First Amendment grounds. (IGN)
An Arizona judge rules that a United States Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett must stand trial for murder for shooting dead a Mexican immigrant. (Reuters)
The United States Food and Drug Administration approves Pfizer's AIDS drug Selzentry. (Reuters via National Post)
50 feared dead when a boat carrying 130 passengers overturned in the midstream of River Ganges in Bihar, India.
Five members of the Iraqiya coalition led by former Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi suspend their participation in the current Cabinet led by Nouri al-Maliki. (New York Times), (BBC)
NASA reports that three galaxies the size of the Milky Way are colliding with another galaxy three times the size of the Milky Way in galaxy cluster CL0958+4702. The eventual galaxy could be up to ten times the size of the Milky Way. (BBC)
A second case of foot and mouth disease is reported in Surrey, England, resulting in the culling of more cattle. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
Six miners are trapped in a coal mine 15 miles west of Huntington, Utah. A 3.9 to 4.5 (USGS) magnitude earthquake was reported in the area around the time of the cave-in. (Reuters)
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina files petitions challenging government move to try her in connection with an extortion case.
North Korea and South Korea exchange gun fire over the border, the first such incident in a year. (CNN)
José Ramos-Horta, the President of East Timor, selects Xanana Gusmão as the Prime Minister of East Timor. (BBC)
A truck bomb in Tal Afar in northern Iraq kills at least 25 people and destroys 10 homes. (Reuters)
Sir Michael Somare's National Alliance Party forms a coalition with six partners which will be the next government of Papua New Guinea. (Radio New Zealand)
Flooding in Lagos, Nigeria, leads to thousands of people being forced from their homes and six people going missing. (Reuters via Press TV)
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors examine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
Japan marks the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Reuters via Washington Post) Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
A state of emergency is declared in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik due to a forest fire. (BBC)
The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert and the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas meet to discuss the establishment of a Palestinian state. (Reuters)