Template:In the news

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, is released worldwide.

• TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 (wreckage pictured) crashes with 186 people on board after skidding off a runway at Congonhas International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil.

• The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that North Korea has shut down all five of the facilities at the Yongbyon nuclear center as the six-party talks resume in Beijing.

• Shimon Peres is sworn in as the ninth President of Israel.

• The Japanese government orders the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant closed pending safety checks after an earthquake caused a leak.

• Russia announces its intended suspension of observance of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

• The Fifteenth Pan American Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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