Portal:Current events/2007 September 8
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September 8, 2007 (Saturday)
- Ang Lee's spy thriller Lust, Caution wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. (Reuters)
- The Red Cross recovers the bodies of 11 Colombian legislators who were shot while being held hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). (AP via Google)
- Former President of Argentina Carlos Menem is charged with involvement in the illegal sale of weapons to Ecuador and Croatia. (BBC News via ABC News Australia)
- Justine Henin of Belgium wins the U.S. Open women's tennis singles championship defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-1 6-3 in the final. (Associated Press via Google)
- Morocco's conservative Istiqlal Party, a member of the kingdom's ruling coalition, wins most seats in parliamentary elections, according to provisional results released by the government (Reuters)
- At least 18 people are injured in a car bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- Islamic insurgency in Algeria (2002-present):
- At least 16 people are killed and 30 injured in a car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in the town of Dellys, 100km (62km) east of Algiers. (AFP via Google)
- Al Qaeda's North African wing al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb claims responsibility for the bombing and a bombing in Batna less than 48 hours earlier. (Reuters)
- At least 85 Hindu pilgrims have died after a lorry accident in India. (Wikinews) (BBC)
- Subtropical Storm Gabrielle is upgraded to a tropical storm as it approaches the eastern United States coastline. (NOAA)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo:
- The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni and the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila meet in Tanzania to discuss the future of oil-rich Lake Albert. (BBC)
- General Laurent Nkunda, the leader of a rebel movement, claims that Government troops have broken a ceasefire in the east of the country. (BBC via ABC News Australia)
- APEC
- Leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Sydney considers an aspirational climate change target of a 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. (Bloomberg)
- Thousands of people march through central Sydney with the New South Wales Police Force making five arrests with two police officers injured. (ABC News Australia)