Portal:Current events/2007 December 12

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Current events of December 12, 2007 (2007-12-12) (Wednesday) edit history watch

United States President George W. Bush vetos an expansion of the federally funded, State Children's Health Insurance Program for the second time. (CNN) The International Olympic Committee strips sprinter Marion Jones of five medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics after she admits to having taken banned substances. (Reuters) Merck & Co. recalls a million doses of a childhood vaccines after tests show a sterilization problem at a Pennsylvania factory. (AP via Google News) The Lebanese armed forces' chief of operations, General François al-Hajj, is killed in a bomb attack in Beirut. (BBC News) Russia orders the British Council to suspend the majority of its Russian operations by January 2008. (BBC News) Christoph Blocher, the leading figure of the right-wing People's Party, is voted out of office in the elections to the Swiss Federal Council. (Swissinfo.org)