Portal:Current events/2007 April 17
April 17, 2007 (Tuesday)
- Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament suspends a former Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden and 29 other Members of Parliament for failing to attend sessions in recent months. (AP via Washington Post) Archived 2012-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Nineteen people die in Rio de Janeiro in gun battles between police and drug gangs. (BBC)
- Virginia Tech massacre:
- Seung-hui Cho is identified as the spree shooter in the attacks. (NPR)
- U.S. President Bush joins thousands of mourners at a memorial service for the victims. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- Iccho Ito, the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, is shot at least twice outside his re-election campaign headquarters. The assassin, Tetsuya Shiroo, is alleged to be a senior member of a local gang affiliated to the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate. (Reuters) (AP via IHT)
- The Olympic Council of Asia chooses Incheon, South Korea over New Delhi, India, to host the 2014 Asian Games. (BBC)
- Four Nepalese United Nations workers and their driver are killed in a roadside bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (BBC)
- Kevin Rudd, the leader of the Australian Labor Party, announces changes to the party's industrial relations policy, including the right to a secret ballot before strike action. (AAP via Melbourne Age)