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2007
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame, who was demanding money from Bush administration officials she blamed for leaking her agency identity.
2007
A 30-minute gunbattle rocked Mogadishu in the hours before a long-awaited Somali peace conference was set to begin. At least two people were killed.
2007
A UN-backed court sentenced three former rebel leaders to prison, the first punishments handed down by the war crimes tribunal since it was set up five years ago after Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict ended. Alex Tamba Brima (35) and Santigie Borbor Kanu (42) were each given 50-year jail terms, while Brima Bazzy Kamara (39) received 45 years.
2007
About 2,000 people protested at the border terminal between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, demanding the crossing be opened to allow thousands of Palestinians trapped in Egypt to return.
2007
In Pakistan 30 elders from several tribal regions in the northwest traveled to North Waziristan in the latest government-backed effort to persuade militants to reverse their decision to end a peace deal. 3 suicide bombings killed at least 51 people. A suicide bomber hit a convoy of Chinese workers passing though the main bazaar in Hub, killing 29 Pakistani bystanders and police, and prompting Musharraf to call for national unity against extremists. A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a mosque in an army cantonment in the northwestern town of Kohat, killing at least 15 people. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives when guards prevented him from entering the parade ground of a police academy in another northwestern town, Hangu. Six bystanders and one policeman died.
2007
In southern Hungary a tourist bus collided with a truck. The truck driver and six bus passengers were killed, and 16 others were injured.
2007
Lawmakers voted in an election widely expected to give India its first female president. Pratibha Patil (72), governor of the northwestern state of Rajasthan, was said to have been selected for her unswerving devotion to Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress party, and Gandhi's powerful family, which has historically controlled the party. Pratibha Patil was elected as the country's first female president in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination. An Indian anti-terror court sentenced three more men to death for their involvement in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai in 1993 which killed 257 people.
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