News -01-02-07 Oprah Opens School in South Africa (CSB News) "Oprah Winfrey headed a celebrity lineup that included Tina Turner and Spike Lee at the opening of her school for poor South African girls." 01-07 -01-09-07 Chavez to Nationalize Electric and Telecom Firms (USA Today) "President Hugo Chavez announced plans Monday to nationalize Venezuela's electrical and telecommunications companies, pledging to create a socialist state in a bold move with echoes of Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba." 01-07 -01-09-07 International Court in Crisis (Guardian Unlimited) "The newly established international criminal court risks being 'fatally damaged' by demands that it cancel its first ever war crimes indictment because it is an obstacle to ending Uganda's 20-year civil war." 01-07 -03-12-07 Swiss Man Faces 75 Years in Prison for Defacing Picture of Thai King (CBS News) " 'In every Thai constitution, the king is revered and worshipped, and he cannot be insulted,' [prosecutor] Bhanu said. 'Thai people cannot accept this act of insulting the king.' 03-07 -04-13-07 Controversy Grows for Wolfowitz at the World Bank (New York Times) "Paul D. Wolfowitz’s tenure as president of the World Bank was thrown into turmoil on Thursday by the disclosure that he had helped arrange a pay raise for his companion at the time of her transfer from the bank to the State Department, where she remained on the bank payroll." "The events injected a new ugliness into what had already been a bitter rift between Mr. Wolfowitz and many of the bank’s employees, who have questioned his suitability for the job as a former deputy secretary of defense and architect of the Iraq war, and have challenged many of his policies at the bank, especially those cracking down on corruption in which he suspended aid to several countries without consulting the board." 04-07 -04-16-07 U.S. Soldier to Be Tried in Italy for Murder (BBC News) "A US soldier is due to be tried in a Rome court with the murder of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq in March 2005." "The agent, Nicola Calipari, was shot dead on his way to Baghdad airport." "He was escorting Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist who had just been freed by kidnappers." 04-07 -05-13-07 Taliban Military Leader in Afghanistan Killed (MSNBC News) "The Taliban’s most prominent military commander, a one-legged fighter who orchestrated an ethnic massacre and a rash of beheadings, was killed in a U.S.-led military operation in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday." 05-07 -06-17-07 Palestinian Split Poses Quandary for USA (New York Times) "With the two Palestinian territories increasingly isolated from each other by a week of brutal warfare between rival factions, Israel and the United States seem agreed on a policy to treat them as separate entities to support Fatah in the West Bank and squeeze Hamas in the Gaza Strip." 06-07 -06-27-07 British Prime Minister Resigns (CBS News) "Tony Blair has resigned from his post as British prime minister, and his long-time political ally and Treasury chief Gordon Brown has assumed the country's top office. 06-07 -06-27-07 China Becomes Leader in Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Wikipedia.org) "On June 19, 2007, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency announced that a preliminary study indicated that China's greenhouse gas emissions for 2006 had exceeded those of the United States for the first time." 06-07 -09-13-07 UN Aopts Treaty on Native Rights (BBC News) "The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples after 22 years of debate. The treaty sets down protections for the human rights of native peoples, and for their land and resources. It passed despite opposition from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. They said it was incompatible with their own laws." "There are estimated to be up to 370 million indigenous people in the world." 09-07 -Editorial: The Wolfowitz Controversy Has a Subplot (New York Times) "When President Bush appointed Paul D. Wolfowitz as the president of the World Bank two years ago, the White House had to put down an insurrection among European nations that viewed the administration’s best-known neoconservative as a symbol of American unilateralism and arrogance." 04-07 01-15-07 Kuwaiti Royal Sentenced to Death (MSNBC News) "A court has convicted a member of Kuwait’s ruling family for drug trafficking and it condemned him to death, according to a ruling obtained Monday." "It is believed to be the first time that a member of a ruling family in one of the Persian Gulf Arab states has received the death sentence for a drug offense." 01-07 01-27-07 Melinda Gates in the Spotlight (MSNBC News) "Melinda Gates has traveled the world with her husband, meeting with the rich and powerful and visiting its poorest in remote African villages. She and her husband share top billing at the world’s richest foundation, but Bill Gates always dominated the spotlight — until this year." 01-07

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