Portal:Current events/2007 October 27
October 27, 2007 (Saturday)
- War in Afghanistan:
- United States led coalition forces kill 80 Taliban fighters outside Musa Qala in Helmand province. (AP via Fox News)
- A suicide bomber explodes a bomb outside a United States base in eastern Afghanistan killing four Afghan soldiers and a civilian. (AP via CNN)
- Curlin wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at the Monmouth Park racecourse. In the same race, European star George Washington is euthanized after breaking down in the stretch. (Reuters)
- At least 30 people are killed and 100 injured in flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC)
- California wildfires:
- Some fires are reported in the Mexican state of Baja California, south of the U.S. border, but these are generally brought fairly swiftly under control. (CalFires.com)
- The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger vows to personally "hunt down" those responsible for starting the fires. (CNN)
- Yu Zhengsheng leaves his post as CPC party chief of Hubei to replace newly promoted Politburo Standing Committee member Xi Jinping as Shanghai party chief. (Xinhua)