NationMaster - Encyclopedia: March 2007

Switzerland accidentally invades Liechtenstein after 171 infantrymen get lost and cross the Liechtenstein border. (Fox News) (BBC)
A human case of bird flu is confirmed in China. (USA Today)
Pakistani authorities capture Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, a former Defense Minister of Afghanistan under the Taliban. (Voice of America)
India requests the extradition of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi from Argentina in relation to the Bofors scandal. (NDTV)
Ten French tourists are kidnapped in northern Ethiopia. (AP via CNN)
The Spanish Government moves hungerstriking ETA prisoner Iñaki de Juana Chaos from a cell in Madrid to one in the Basque Country. (AP via the Houston Chronicle)
A boat carrying Haitian migrants catches fire off the coast of the Dominican Republic resulting in the death of at least eight people and 44 people missing. (AP via Fox News)
Dozens of people are arrested in Copenhagen as the police evict squatters from The Youth House in the centre of the city. (AP via IHT)
The Turkish government orders an investigation into claims that the Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Öcalan was poisoned. (BBC)
A tornado strikes southern Missouri killing a seven-year-old girl. Tornadoes in Alabama kill at least ten people including eight students at Enterprise High School. In Georgia, at least nine people die in storms. It is part of a larger tornado outbreak. (The Birmingham News) (AP via Houston Chronicle) (KDKA CBS)
Senegalese election officials confirm that Abdoulaye Wade has been re-elected as the President of Senegal. (Voice of America)
The United States formally charges David Hicks with aiding the Taliban. He will be the first person tried under the new law for military commissions. (AP via CNN)
Eight people die in a landmine explosion in Chhattisgarh, India. (BBC)
A New South Wales coroner issues a warrant for the arrest of Indonesian politician Yunus Yosfiah for failure to appear to give evidence in the coronial inquest into the death of the Balibo Five in Balibo, East Timor in 1975. (News Limited)
The fourth International Polar Year, a $1.5 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole is launched in Paris, France. (BBC)
Greek archaelogists announce that a 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera has been found during excavations in the ruins of ancient Dion, a city under Mount Olympus. (AP)

March 2, 2007 (Friday)

Protestors set cars and barricades on fire in Copenhagen over evictions. (Fox News)
Italian leader Romano Prodi is reinstated as prime minister after winning his second and final confidence vote in the Parliament, ending a political crisis that began last week when Prodi resigned after losing a foreign policy vote. (CNN)
Cuban foreign minister Felipe Pérez Roque claims leader Fidel Castro is recovering from his illness and could come back to lead Cuba again. (CNN)
The Bush administration selects a design from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a new generation of nuclear warheads that could replace the Trident missile on submarines by 2012. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Prices at the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange continue to drop after a massive sell-off earlier in the week. (CBC)
The Parliament of Chechnya appoints Ramzan Kadyrov as the President of Chechnya after his nomination by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. (BBC)
The United States Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey resigns over poor conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. President Bush later orders a full review of health care available to returning soldiers. (New York Times)
A bus carrying the baseball team of Bluffton University plunges off an overpass onto Interstate 75 near Atlanta, Georgia, killing six including four students. (CNN)
Puerto Rico institutes a smoking ban in all public places. Smoking will only be allowed in homes, places dedicated to tobacco sales, and open and ventilated places. (El Nuevo Día)
A bomb explodes near a car carrying a judge of the Pakistani anti-terrorist court, Mian Bashir Bhatti, wounding him and killing at least three others. (AP via IHT)
Indonesia declares the deaths of the Balibo Five to be a closed case despite a New South Wales coronial inquest into their deaths in Balibo, East Timor in 1975. (News Limited)
The Communist Party of China expels nine senior officials and business leaders over a Shanghai corruption scandal related to misuse of Government pension funds. The nine people will also face criminal charges. (BBC)
The Attorney General for England and Wales, Lord Goldsmith, obtains an injunction from the High Court preventing the BBC from broadcasting an item about investigations into an alleged cash for honours political scandal. (BBC)

March 3, 2007 (Saturday)

The eviction of Ungdomshuset by Danish police results in more rioting in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, leading to about 100 arrests during a second night of protests. (BBC)
United States President Bush declares Coffee County, Alabama, hit by a tornado last Thursday, to be a federal disaster area. (CTV Canada)
A total lunar eclipse is visible from the Midwestern United States to Southeast Asia from 22:44 to 23:58 GMT. (BBC)
The Cherokee Nation has voted to exclude the descendants of freed slaves from Cherokee citizenship, reversing a decision of the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. (BBC)

March 04, 2007 (Sunday)

Estonian parliamentary election, 2007:
- Andrus Ansip's Reform Party wins 27% of the vote raising its mandate in the Riigikogu to 31 seats from 19.
- Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting, becoming the first nationwide election where part of the votecasting was allowed via the Internet. (BBC)
Abkhazian parliamentary election, 2007: Separatists in the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia hold elections. The Government of Georgia claims that the elections are not legitimate. (UPI)
Sunil Kumar Mahato, an Indian member of parliament from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, is killed by suspected Maoist rebels while watching football in Jharkand. (The Hindu)
China raises its defense budget by 17.8 percent, while cutting the budget deficit to 1.1 percent of GDP. (People's Daily) (Reuters)
A memorial service is held at St Mary's Church in Dover, United Kingdom, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster. (BBC)
War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
- U.S. troops open fire after a suicide bomb attack on a convoy and kill 8 or more civilians on the main road linking Jalalabad with the Pakistan border. Local people protest at the soldiers' actions. (BBC)
- Taliban insurgency: Two British soldiers serving with the NATO International Security Assistance Force force are killed in Helmand province during clashes with Taliban forces. (BBC)
Australian troops enter the town of Same in East Timor where fugitive East Timorese army officer Alfredo Reinado was located with orders to arrest Reinado from the President of East Timor Xanana Gusmão. Reinado evades capture but four of his men are killed. (ABC News Australia) (AAP and AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)

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March 05, 2007 (Monday)

The United States and North Korea commence talks in New York City to establish diplomatic relations following the abandonment of the North Korean nuclear weapons program. (AP via CNN)
Ramush Haradinaj, the former Prime Minister of Kosovo, goes on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague for war crimes allegedly committed while he was a regional leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army. (The Independent)
Iraq War:
- A car bomb in Baghdad kills at least 26 people. (CNN)
- Two car bombs kill at least 9 United States Army soldiers north of Baghdad. (AP via IHT) (BBC)
Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, is demolished to prevent it from being re-occupied. (AP via CNN)
The government of Vanuatu declares a state of emergency in Port Vila following ethnic clashes. (AP via Washington Post) (Radio New Zealand)
The 2007 National People's Congress opens at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. In his report to the nation, Premier Wen Jiabao focuses on environmental concerns, narrowing the wealth gap, controlling housing prices, and "resolute opposition" to Taiwan independence. (BBC) (Reuters) (CNN) (China Daily)

March 6, 2007 (Tuesday)