Portal:Current events/2007 December 18
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December 18, 2007 (Tuesday)
- Jacob Zuma is elected president of South Africa's ANC party. (Sky News)
- An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude hits the Aleutian Islands 125 miles west of Adak, Alaska. (AP via The Houston Chronicle)
- United States District Judge Henry Kennedy orders a hearing on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of two Al-Qaeda suspects. (AP via MSNBC)
- The Orange Revolution advocate Yulia Tymoshenko wins parliament's backing to return as prime minister of Ukraine. (Reuters)