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2007
In Denmark 7 people who raised money for Colombian guerrillas and Palestinian militants through T-shirt sales were charged under Denmark's anti-terror law.
2007
In Egypt a published decree said Mukbil Shakir, head of the Supreme Judicial Council, has named the country's first female judges despite opposition from conservative Muslims. Shakir appointed 31 women to judge or chief judge positions in Egypt's courts.
2007
Lucie Aubrac
2007
Farmers in eastern India angered by government plans to build an industrial park on their land fought police with rocks, machetes and pickaxes. At least 14 people were killed in Nandigram, West Bengal state.
2007
In northern Iraq suicide bombers struck a market and an Iraqi military checkpoint in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people. An Iraqi general warned extremists that they will be "smashed under the foot of the Iraqi people" if they resist efforts to end the violence in the country. A US soldier was killed in fighting in Anbar province. A Marine assigned to Multi National Force-West also died in Anbar in a non-combat-related incident.
2007
A Japanese court overturned a landmark ruling ordering the Japanese government and a company to compensate Chinese who were forced to work as slave laborers in Japan during World War Two. The Tokyo High Court acknowledged that the state and the firm had violated the human rights of the 11 Chinese, but rejected the plaintiffs' demand for compensation because a 20-year statute of limitation had expired.
2007
Israeli and Palestinian envoys said that improving the economy can revive the peace process as they got to work on a Japanese initiative to create jobs in the West Bank.
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