Portal:Current events/2007 December 5

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Current events of December 5, 2007 (2007-12-05) (Wednesday) edit history watch

Swedish National Television reveals systematic food safety irregularities at ICA, the leading grocery store chain in Sweden. (Sveriges Television) Two British citizens are arrested in Lithuania after trying to ship 14 kg (31 pounds) of khat out of Vilnius. (The Baltic Times) Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis resigns. (The Baltic Times) Car bombs in Baghdad and three northern Iraqi cities kill at least 22 people and injure more than 60 others. (The New York Times) A man opens fire at a mall in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States, killing eight before committing suicide. (Reuters) A suicide bomber rams a car into a minibus containing Afghan soldiers on a highway south of Kabul. Thirteen, including six Afghan soldiers, are killed in the incident. (AP via Google News)