Portal:Current events/2007 April 30: Difference between revisions

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• General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British Army, confirms that Prince Harry will deploy with the Blues and Royals regiment on a six-month tour of duty in Iraq. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
• The Governor of Virginia Timothy Kaine tightens gun laws after the Virginia Tech massacre. (Radio New Zealand)
• Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is criticised in a high-level report for taking Israel to war in Lebanon last year "hastily". (BBC)
• A smoking ban comes into effect in Northern Ireland, three years after the Republic of Ireland; this now means the entire island of Ireland is smoke-free. (RTÉ)
• A meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change starts in Bangkok to discuss approaches to climate change. (BBC)
• The US-led Coalition claims to have killed scores of Taliban forces in Afghanistan. (Reuters Alertnet)
• Five men arrested in 2004 as part of Operation Crevice are convicted at the Old Bailey of a plot to explode fertilizer bombs in the UK. (BBC) (Guardian)

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