Portal:Current events/2007 July 25

• UK Prime minister Gordan Brown decides to make a new force who will guard UK borders from Terrorists trying to enter the country.
• Le Tour de France 2007
  • Italian rider Christian Moreni fails a doping test in the 2007 Tour de France and is led away for questioning by French police. (Fox News)
  • Danish rider Michael Rasmussen, the wearer of the maillot jaune, is pulled from the race by Team Rabobank after winning Stage 16 for "violating internal rules" of the team by apparently lying about his whereabouts and missing several team-administered doping tests prior to the competition. (ESPN)
• The President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fires the Defense Minister (also responsible for civil aviation) Waldir Pires and replaces him with former Justice Minister Nelson Jobim after two major crashes in ten months. (New York Times)
• The United States House Committee on the Judiciary votes 22-17 to approve a report citing former White House counsel Harriet Miers and current Chief of Staff for President Bush Joshua Bolten for failing to comply with subpoenas regarding the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. (CNN)
• A car bomb in the Mansour district of Baghdad kills at least 30 Iraqis celebrating victory in an Asian Cup match against South Korea. Another suicide attack in East Baghdad kills another 20. (BBC), (Reuters)
• 8 of the 23 South Koreans held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan are released. One of the hostages has been executed with the Taliban warning that the remaining hostages will be killed. (AndhraNews.net), (CNN)
• The first delegation from the Arab League comprising the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan visits Israel. (BBC)
• Iraq's largest Sunni Arab bloc, The Iraqi Accordance Front, suspends its membership in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition government. (Fox News)
• Pratibha Patil is sworn-in as the First woman President of India. (AndhraNews.net)
• A Russian subcontractor advises that Iran's first nuclear power reactor will be ready in August 2008. (Reuters)
• The Australian Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions reviews the case against Mohamed Haneef accused of giving material support to terrorism following concerns being raised about the strength of the case. (Sydney Morning Herald)
• More houses are evacuated in Oxford as the River Thames breaks its banks. (Reuters via News Limited)
• North and South Korea conduct high-level talks to resolve a border dispute. (BBC)
• The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy travels to Libya following the release of the medical workers sentenced to death in the HIV trial in Libya. (Reuters via CNN)

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