Portal:Current events/2007 April 23

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Current events of April 23, 2007 (2007-04-23) (Monday) edit history watch

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin dies at the age of 76. (BBC) (CNN) Iraq Insurgency: Prime Minister Nouri Maliki calls for construction to be halted on the three-mile wall being built by the United States military around the predominantly Sunni district of Adhamiyah, Baghdad. Thousands of Iraqis also protest the wall. (Guardian) (BBC) (CNN) Nine U.S. soldiers are killed by a suicide car bomb near a United States Army patrol base in Diyala. (CNN), (BBC) Three of the six members of the Bali Nine – Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman – who were sentenced to death have launched a judicial review appeal with Denpasar's District Court. (ABC News Australia) Barclays plc agrees to buy ABN Amro in a €67 billion deal. (Bloomberg) Umaru Yar'Adua is declared the winner of Nigeria's presidential election that EU observers said "cannot be considered to have been credible." (Washington Post), (BBC) NASA releases the first 3D images of the Sun acquired by the STEREO spacecraft. (PhysOrg) The United States' 391st National Park Unit, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, is formally established. (NPS) VA allows Wiccan symbols on headstones. (CNN), (Fox)