Portal:Current events/2007 June 26
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Current events of
June 26
,
2007
(
2007-06-26
)
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Bolivia
reclaims two
oil refineries
from
Brazilian
state-owned energy company
Petrobras
.
(BBC)
The militant group
Army of Islam
, holding
BBC
Middle East
correspondent
Alan Johnston
captive, renews its threat to kill him.
(CNN)
The
Central Intelligence Agency
releases the "
family jewels
," secret documents detailing illegal activities—including a plot to hire members of the
Mafia
to assassinate
Fidel Castro
—and domestic spying.
(Reuters)
On the eve of
Gordon Brown
's assuming office as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
,
Conservative
Member of Parliament
Quentin Davies
defects to the
Labour Party
.
(Financial Times)
An
International Atomic Energy Agency
team heads to
North Korea
to see if
Pyongyang's
nuclear reactor
has been shut down.
(Reuters)
Tony Blair
and
Arnold Schwarzenegger
hold talks at
10 Downing Street
on Blair's last day as
Prime Minister
; the environment and
climate change
are the primary issue.
(Guardian UK)
(Guardian UK)
In the
United Kingdom
, hundreds of people are evacuated from villages in
South Yorkshire
, and a section of the
M1 motorway
is closed amid fears of an imminent collapse of the dam at the
Ulley reservoir
following heavy rainfall and
widespread flooding across the UK
.
(BBC)
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