world current affairs 2007

• Sudan president - Omar al-Bashir


• first snowfall in 89 years - Buenos Aires(argentina)


• murder of some 1.5 million Armenians during World War I - by turkey


• Winter Olympics in 2014 - Sochi, Russia


• Cyclone Sidr - Bangladesh


• Askariya Shrine - Samarra


• The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, massacred between 1 million and 2 million people in what country in the 1970s? - Cambodia


• Ukrainian President - Viktor Yushchenko


• Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative candidate,


• Ségolène Royal, of the Socialist Party


• Earthquake and Tsunami Strike the Solomon Islands


• Rev. Ian Paisley - Northern Ireland executive government.


• Robert Zoellick as the president of the World Bank


• crimes against humanity for supporting rebel troops in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war that claimed the lives of about 300,000 people in the 1990s. - Former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor


• G8 Conference - Heiligendamm, agree to consider ways to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.new global climate policy by 2009, a potential successor to the Kyoto Protocol.spend $60 billion to treat AIDS and other diseases in the third world.


• Israeli Prime Minister - Ehud Barak


• Chemical Ali - Ali Hassan al-Majid


• Israeli President in Rape Case - Moshe Katsav


• News Corporation - Rupert Murdoch, Wins Approval to Buy Dow Jones ( previously owned by The Bancroft family)


• Xanana Gusmão as prime minister - East Timor


• new constitution - Thailand


• President of Turkey - Abdullah Gul


• Barbara Morgan - former teacher , Endeavour to the International Space Station


• Quake Near Lima, Peru


• Hurricane Dean - Mexico


• Viktor Zubkov - Russian PM


• Yasuo Fukuda - Japanese PM


• Three Earthquakes Strike Indonesia


• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - president argentine


• Wildfires Devastate Southern California


• Discovery - space shuttle


• President Mikheil Saakashvili - Georgia


• Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch - Khmer Rouge Leader


• Prime Minister Fouad Siniora - Lebanon