Portal:Current events/2007 March 2

• Italian leader Romano Prodi is reinstated as prime minister after winning his second and final confidence vote in the parliament, ending a political crisis that began last week when Prodi resigned after losing a foreign policy vote. (CNN)
• Cuban foreign minister Perez Roque claims Cuban leader Fidel Castro is recovering from his illness and could come back to lead Cuba again. (CNN)
• The Bush administration selects a design from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a new generation of nuclear warheads that could replace the Trident missile on submarines by 2012. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Prices at the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange continue to plummet after a massive sell-off earlier in the week. (CBC)
• The Parliament of Chechnya appoints Ramzan Kadyrov as the President of Chechnya after his nomination by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. (BBC)
• The United States Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey resigns over poor conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. President Bush later orders a full review of health care available to returning soldiers. (New York Times)
• A bus carrying the baseball team of Bluffton University plunges off a ramp onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta, Georgia killing at least six. (AP via Yahoo!)
• Puerto Rico institutes a smoking ban in all public places. Smoking will only be allowed in homes, places dedicated to tobacco sales, and open and ventilated places. (El Nuevo Día)
• A bomb explodes near a car carrying a judge of the Pakistani anti-terrorist court, Mian Bashir Bhatti, wounding him and killing at least three others. (AP via IHT)
• Indonesia declares the deaths of the Balibo Five to be a closed case despite a New South Wales coronial inquest into their deaths in Balibo, East Timor in 1975. (News Limited)
• The Communist Party of China expels nine senior officials and business leaders over a Shanghai corruption scandal related to misuse of Government pension funds. The nine people will also face criminal charges. (BBC)

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