Portal:Current events/2007 February 14

February 14, 2007 (Wednesday)

The United States redeploys the 173rd Airborne Brigade to Afghanistan to prepare for an anticipated spring offensive by the Taliban. (CNN)
Bombay Stock Exchange sells 5 percent stake to Germany's Deutsche Börse. (International Herald Tribune) (Reuters) (Forbes)
The Parliament of Serbia rejects a United Nations plan for the independence of Kosovo. (BBC)
United States Senate election, 2008: Author and comedian Al Franken announces his candidacy for Senator of Minnesota. (CNN)
Vodafone's Chief Executive, Arun Sarin, says the company will spend US$2 billion to enhance its investments in India. (Forbes) (BusinessWeek)
Mid-February winter storm: A major weather system reaches the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada and hammers the region with snow and ice. The same system is responsible for severe weather in the Midwest and a tornado in New Orleans, Louisiana. (AP via CBS News)
Iraq War:
- Operation Imposing Law: U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell announces that Muqtada Al Sadr fled Iraq several weeks ago and is in Iran. (Washington Post) (Alertnet)
- White House Press Secretary Tony Snow confirmed that the White House believes Iran is equipping Shia insurgents in Iraq. (BBC)
- Iraq War troop surge of 2007: The U.S. House of Representatives debates the proposed non-binding resolution to oppose President Bush's surge plan. (BBC)
- The U.S. military confirms that a United States Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter that crashed on 7 February 2007 was shot down by insurgents. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
- French counterterrorism police arrest 11 people who were allegedly part of a network to recruit Islamic radicals to work with Al-Qaeda in Iraq. (Fox)
The European parliament has approved a report on secret CIA flights which condemns member states that allowed the operations. (BBC)
Tens of thousands rally in Beirut, Lebanon to mark the second anniversary of the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (BBC )
Leaders of the Anglican Church meet in Tanzania with a possibility of a schism over the issue of homosexual clergy. (BBC)
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is sworn in as President of Turkmenistan. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
The foreign ministers of China, India and Russia meet in New Delhi, India to discuss greater cooperation between the three Asian countries on issues including terrorism, drug trafficking and Afghanistan. (BBC) (Forbes)
A bus belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has been hit by a car bomb in Zahedan killing 18 people. (Reuters via ABC Australia)
The World Food Program predicts that 285,000 people in Mozambique will require food aid after severe flooding. (BBC)
Georgina Beyer, the world's first transgendered member of parliament, resigns from the Parliament of New Zealand. (NZ Herald)