Portal:Current events/2007 October 2
October 2, 2007 (Tuesday)
- 2007 Summer Special Olympics opens in Shanghai, China. (Wall Street Journal)
- Citigroup buys out minority shareholders of Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial for $4.6 billion. (Reuters via CNBC)
- Five workers are trapped underground in an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, Colorado, United States due to a chemical fire. They are later found dead. (Reuters) (Fox News)
- At least 27 people are killed when a bus catches fire in Chongqing, southwest China. (News Limited)
- Pakistan:
- The Pakistani cabinet announces plans to drop all corruption charges against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.[citation needed]
- The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf appoints General Ashfaq Kiyani to succeed him as the head of the Pakistan Army after Saturday's election. (Washington Post)
- Israel confirms it conducted an airstrike on Syria on September 6. (Ynet)
- Iraq War: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown makes his first visit to Iraq, where he announces the withdrawal of 1,000 troops. (BBC) (AP via Topix)
- War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blows himself up near a bus carrying policemen killing at least 11 in Kabul. (BBC)
- The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun walks across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in travelling to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. (BBC) (CNN)
- Manhattan Community Board 5 voted to add the Hotel Pennsylvania to the list of NYC Historic buildings. (CB5)
- 2007 Burmese anti-government protests:
- United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari meets with Burmese General Than Shwe to tell him to stop the killing of dissidents. (The Guardian)
- Gambari later meets with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with growing fear about the wellbeing of approximately 1000 dissidents held in a warehouse in the Government Technical Institute in Rangoon. (AFP, Reuters via The Melbourne Age)