Portal:Current events/2007 June 17
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June 17, 2007 (Sunday)
- Air strikes in Afghanistan on a suspected Al Qaeda headquarters kill several militants as well as civilians, including children. (Reuters)(BBC)
- Ángel Cabrera wins the 2007 U.S. Open Golf Championship at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. (NZPA)
- Linate Airport in Milan, Italy is closed for three hours at dawn to allow wildlife experts to trap 80 hares that have bred in recent months and are confusing ground radar. (BBC)
- Audi wins their seventh 24 Hours of Le Mans in eight years, including their second straight win with a diesel R10 prototype. (SpeedTV) (BBC)
- A Canadian pilot and five British passengers die in a plane crash in Malawi. (Channel 4 UK)
- Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority, outlaws armed factions of Hamas. (CTV) Archived 2013-10-19 at archive.today
- At least 35 people die in Kabul, Afghanistan as the result of a bombing of a police bus. (Newswire) (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- French voters go to the polls to elect a new French National Assembly. The centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UPM) wins a comfortable majority; however, the left did make some gains, with senior minister Alain Juppe losing his seat in Bordeaux. (BBC) (Canada East) (Reuters via CNN)