Portal:Current events/2007 May 8
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May 8, 2007 (Tuesday)
- U.S. police arrest six Islamic men from the Republic of Macedonia and the Middle East based on a tip from a Mount Laurel, NJ resident who discovered their plot to attack Fort Dix, New Jersey, and "kill as many soldiers as possible." (New York Times) (BBC) (AP via Trentonian.com)
- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton announces a deal with drug companies to lower the price of anti-AIDS drugs in Third World countries. (AP via Fox News)
- André Boisclair resigns as the leader of Canada's Parti Québécois. (International Herald Tribune)
- The Treasurer of Australia Peter Costello delivers his twelfth budget with significant tax cuts and increases in government spending on education and health. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta blows up three oil pipelines in the Niger delta in the south of Nigeria. (Reuters Alertnet)
- Home rule returns to Northern Ireland. DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness take office as First Minister and Deputy First Minister, respectively. (BBC)
- Iraq War:
- The U.S. Department of Defense announces plans to deploy 35,000 troops in Iraq starting from August 2007. (Washington Post)
- Tomislav Nikolić, the temporary leader of the Serbian Radical Party, is elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia. (AP via CTV) Archived 2013-10-19 at archive.today (BBC)
- Former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam gives evidence to the coronial inquest into the death of the Balibo Five in Balibo, East Timor in October 1975. (Sydney Morning Herald with AAP)
- Scotland's John Higgins beats England's Mark Selby in the World Snooker Championship 2007 final by 18-13 frames. (BBC Sport)
- Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer claims to have discovered the tomb of Herod the Great in Herodium. (CNN)