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Six members of the
Iranian
security forces are killed in a
helicopter
crash near the town of
Piranshahr
close to the
Iraqi
border.
(Daily Times, Pakistan)
Five people are killed when the top floor of a building in South
Mumbai
,
India
, collapses on an adjoining building.
A dozen
Taliban
die in an attempted
ambush
of a joint patrol of
Afghan
police and Coalition troops in
Helmand
province.
(Times of India)
France
circulates a draft
United Nations Security Council
resolution extending the mandate of the 13,600
United Nations
peacekeeping force in
Lebanon
.
(AP via the Washington Post)
Archived
2012-11-02 at the
Wayback Machine
Interpol
issues warrants for the arrest of
Saddam Hussein
's eldest daughter
Raghad Hussein
and his first wife
Sajida Khairalla Tulfa
for providing support to
Iraqi
insurgents.
(NYT)
Texas
oil
executive
David B. Chalmers, Jr
pleads guilty to
wire fraud
connected with the
United Nations
oil-for-food
program associated with the
United Nations
.
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
Russia
,
China
and four
Central Asian
members of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
conduct
war games
in the southern
Ural Mountains
area of
Russia
with
Vladimir Putin
, the
President of Russia
, proposing that they be held regularly.
(The Hindu)
A
Nile
boat sinks off the northern
Egyptian
town of
Beni Suef
with dozens feared missing.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
172
coal miners
are trapped in a
flooded
mine in
Shandong
province in eastern
China
.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
(ChinaDaily)
The search for six miners trapped in the
Crandall Canyon mine
in
Utah
is suspended indefinitely after the death of three rescue workers.
(AP via Forbes)
Vladimir Putin
announces that
Russia
will resume patrols over the
Atlantic
and
Pacific Oceans
by its nuclear-capable
Tu-160
and
Tu-95
bombers after a 15-year hiatus.
(NYT)
Ashley Mote
, a
Member of the European Parliament
for
South East England
, is convicted on 21 counts of
fraud
.
(BBC)
Hurricane Dean
:
Hurricane Dean intensifies into a Category 4
hurricane
after hitting the
Lesser Antilles
.
(Reuters)
The
Prime Minister of Jamaica
Portia Simpson-Miller
convenes an emergency
cabinet
meeting as it is likely to cross
Jamaica
on Sunday.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
BP
starts evacuating its
oil
and
gas
workers from the
Gulf of Mexico
ahead of Hurricane Dean.
(The Scotsman)
The
Governor of Louisiana
Kathleen Blanco
declares a
state of emergency
as a precaution.
(Governor's Office)
Stock prices in the
United States
and
Europe
rally after the
Federal Reserve
cuts its discount lending rate to restore confidence in the banking sector after the
subprime mortgage crisis
.
(Bloomberg)
2007 Peru earthquake
The death toll from the
2007 Peru earthquake
rises to 510 with another 1,500 people being injured. Aid reaches affected areas with
President
Alan García
appealing for calm after reports of
looting
.
(AP via Forbes)
A powerful
aftershock
earthquake
of 5.9 magnitude hits the
Huancavelica
region.
(The Scotsman)
Over 600 inmates escape from the
Tambo de Mora Prison
in
Chincha
, 25 miles from the
epicentre
of the earthquake, after it collapses.
(AP via the International Herald Tribune)
The
International Atomic Energy Agency
and the
United States Government
advises that
North Korea
is co-operating with plans to shut down its nuclear program.
(AP via Forbes)
Four people die as a
United States Marine Corps
helicopter
crashes on a training flight north of
Yuma, Arizona
.
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
Australian
Prime Minister
John Howard
says the country has decided to
export
Uranium
to
India
.
Adriaan Vlok
,
South African
Police Minister during the
apartheid
era, pleads guilty to one charge of attempted
murder
of black activist
priest
Frank Chikane
by
poisoning
his
underwear
. He is given a
suspended sentence
of ten years in
jail
.
(Reuters via the Age)
The
Parliament of Australia
passes the
Northern Territory
Indigenous Bill
making changes to the
Australian
welfare
system and
land rights
.
(ABC News Australia)
2007 Pacific typhoon season
: Southeast
China
and
Taiwan
prepare for
typhoon Sepat
.
(Xinhua)
Six
Islamic
militants involved in planning the
2002 Bali bombings
have their sentences reduced by five months due to good behaviour.
(News Limited)
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