Portal:Current events/2007 May 9
May 9, 2007 (Wednesday)
- The Times and Phoenix TV reports that Huang Ju, Executive Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China and a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, has died in Beijing. However, the State Council of the People's Republic of China denies these reports.(Stratfor) (IOL)
- At least nine Colombian policeman are killed and six others injured from a bomb planted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Santander Department. (BBC)
- The Shanghai Composite Index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange reaches a record high 4,000 points. (New York Times)
- Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf is re-elected as the Mayor of Tehran, Iran. (BBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Brazil on his first visit to Latin America to reaffirm Catholicism in the region. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- The first named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Andrea, forms off the southeastern United States. (CNN)
- Four people in the United Kingdom are arrested in connection with the 7 July 2005 London bombings. (BBC)
- Iraq War:
- Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, travels to Baghdad to encourage reconciliation amongst factions. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- At least 12 people die as a truck bomb explodes in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. (Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald)
- People in East Timor finish voting in the second round of the country's first presidential election since it gained independence from Indonesia in 2002. (BBC)
- The United Kingdom Home Office is restructured with a new Ministry of Justice being formed to handle prisons, probation and the sentencing of offenders. (UK Home Office) (BBC)
- An international genetic research program identifies a group of genes which may cause bipolar disorder. (Daily Telegraph)