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)