Portal:Current events/2007 December 5
December 5, 2007 (Wednesday)
- Swedish National Television reveals systematic food safety irregularities at ICA, the leading grocery store chain in Sweden. (Sveriges Television)
- Two British citizens are arrested in Lithuania after trying to ship 14 kg (31 pounds) of khat out of Vilnius. (The Baltic Times)
- Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis resigns. (The Baltic Times)
- Car bombs in Baghdad and three northern Iraqi cities kill at least 22 people and injure more than 60 others. (The New York Times)
- A man opens fire at a mall in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States, killing eight before committing suicide. (Reuters)
- A suicide bomber rams a car into a minibus containing Afghan soldiers on a highway south of Kabul. Thirteen, including six Afghan soldiers, are killed in the incident. (AP via Google News)