Portal:Current events/2007 December 2
December 2, 2007 (Sunday)
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's constitutional amendments are rejected by a margin of 51% to 49% in a popular vote. He concedes the vote. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party wins 62.8% of the votes in Russia's parliamentary elections. (Reuters)
- Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the fourth time in a row, a feat only so far accomplished by Tommi Mäkinen. (Reuters)[permanent dead link]
- Brazil starts free-to-air digital television transmissions in São Paulo, but broadcasting companies must transmit signals in both analogue and digital formats until June 2016. (Folha de S. Paulo)
- Four people are killed at the Zasyadko coal mine in eastern Ukraine where 101 people were killed twelve days earlier in the country's worst mining accident. (BBC)