Portal:Current events/2007 April 9
April 9, 2007 (Monday)
- The Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer signs legislation changing the date of the New York primary election to February 5, 2008. (AP via Herald News Daily)
- Thirteen detainees at Guantanamo Bay are conducting a hunger strike to protest against harsher conditions in a new prison unit and are being force fed. (AP via CNN)
- The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence bans any more of the 15 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines held captive by Iran from selling their stories to the media reversing a previous decision following widespread criticism. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)[permanent dead link]
- Tim Montgomery, a former 100-metre world record holder, pleads guilty to charges of bank fraud and money laundering. (BBC)
- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran announces that his country can now produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale. (BBC), (CNN)
- Ministers from natural gas exporting countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan and Iran meet in Doha, Qatar, prompting speculation that they might be looking at transforming the Gas Exporting Countries Forum into a cartel similar to OPEC. (BBC)
- Iraq War: Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr calls for an anti-American protest on the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of thousands of Shias gather in Najaf for a demonstration calling for U.S.-led troops to leave Iraq. (Reuters via Gulf Times), (BBC)
- East Timorese voters go to the polls to elect a new President of East Timor to replace Xanana Gusmão.(New York Times)
- Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina protest against the death of Carlos Fuentealba, a school teacher having been severely injured by a tear gas canister fired by police during a protest the previous week over pay and working conditions. (BBC)