Portal:Current events/2007 September 20

September 20, 2007 (Thursday)

A police officer in Warren, Ohio, is caught on camera using a taser on a woman while she was handcuffed. (ABC7 Chicago)
The Election Commission of Pakistan sets October 6, 2007 as the date for the Presidential Election.
Iran:
- The New York Police Department denies a request by the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Ground Zero of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City. (Jerusalem Post)
- The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy states that he will seek tougher United Nations sanctions against Iran for the nuclear program of Iran. (CNN)
American cyclist Floyd Landis is officially stripped of his win in the 2006 Tour de France and banned from competition for two years after an arbitration panel finds him guilty of doping during the 2006 Tour. He has 30 days to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AP via ESPN.com)
Osama bin Laden calls on the people of Pakistan to rise up in a "holy war" and overthrow President Pervez Musharraf. (BBC)
Tens of thousands of people, including Howard University students and NAACP members, arrive in the U.S. city of Jena, Louisiana, to protest in support of six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl. (Washington Post)
CNN reports that Iran has released Iranian-American social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh. (CNN)
Al Qaeda's Deputy Leader Ayman al-Zawahri claims that the United States is being defeated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and North Africa. (AP via Topix)
Qian Xun Xue case: Questions are asked in the New Zealand parliament as to why Nai Yin Xue was able to leave the country with his daughter despite a court order. (News Limited)
A total of 24 people are arrested after a riot in Aurukun, Queensland, Australia. (News Limited)
A fire breaks out at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata, Japan, which has been closed since a fire in July. (BBC)
The Canadian dollar briefly reaches parity with the American dollar for the first time since 1976. (CBC)