Portal:Current events/2007 December 2

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Current events of December 2, 2007 (2007-12-02) (Sunday) edit history watch

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's constitutional amendments are rejected by a margin of 51% to 49% in a popular vote. He concedes the vote. (AP via Yahoo! News) Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party wins 62.8% of the votes in Russia's parliamentary elections. (Reuters) Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the fourth time in a row, a feat only so far accomplished by Tommi Mäkinen. (Reuters) Brazil starts free-to-air digital television transmissions in São Paulo, but broadcasting companies must transmit signals in both analogue and digital formats until June 2016. (Folha de S. Paulo) Four people are killed at the Zasyadko coal mine in eastern Ukraine where 101 people were killed twelve days earlier in the country's worst mining accident. (BBC)