Portal:Current events/2007 July 2: Difference between revisions

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• The President of the United States George W. Bush holds talks with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Kennebunkport, Maine discussing missile defense and Iran. (AP via the New York Times)
• Carlyle Group offers somewhere between £4 billion and £5 billion for the purchase of heavily-indebted Virgin Media. (Wall Street Journal)
• Eight people have been killed by a 2007 car bomb explosion at a tourist site in Yemen. (Sky)
• The United States accuses Iran of using Hezbollah to train Shia militants in Iraq. The Iranian Defence Minister had earlier called the US the "biggest sponsor of terrorism" in the world. (BBC) (Press TV)
• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Mooney, the military attaché at the United States Embassy is found dead in western Cyprus. (AP via IHT)
• Wesfarmers buys Coles Group for $A22 billion in Australia's biggest corporate deal. (Sydney Morning Herald)
• British detectives continue the hunt for suspects in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs plot. Two doctors are among the seven people currently in custody in connection with the attacks. (BBC), (BBC)
• Corporal Bill Henry "Willy" Apiata of the Special Air Service of New Zealand is awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery under fire in Afghanistan in 2004. (ABC News Australia)
• The trial over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink opens in Istanbul, Turkey. (BBC)

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