Portal:Current events/2007 March 22
March 22, 2007 (Thursday)
- An arms depot explodes in Maputo, Mozambique, killing at least 93 people and injuring hundreds more. CNN (AP via CNN)
- French space agency CNES releases its UFO files to the public via its website. (Washington Post)
- Jamaican Police announce that Bob Woolmer, the coach of the Pakistan national cricket team, was murdered on Sunday, and proceed to question all members of the team. (This is London), (IOL (S. Africa))
- NBC, News Limited, AOL, MSN and Yahoo! join forces to develop an ad-supported online video network to compete with YouTube. (Business Week)
- 2007 Zimbabwean political crisis: The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo Pius Ncube calls for mass protests to force President Robert Mugabe from power. (BBC)
- Fighting erupts in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, between Government troops and the personal militia of Jean-Pierre Bemba, defeated presidential candidate in 2006 and recently elected Senator. The Spanish embassy is caught in the crossfire, leading to its evacuation under United Nations guard. (Reuters via CNN)
- Bemba seeks refuge with the South African embassy. (BBC)
- The European Union agrees to open the trans-Atlantic air market to greater competition. (New York Times)
- A senior U.S. District Judge, Lowell Reed Jr., strikes down the Child Online Protection Act, which made it an offence for commercial website operators to allow minors to access "harmful" material. (The Times)
- Police arrest three men in England in relation to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. (Bloomberg)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is left shocked, but uninjured at a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in Baghdad as a nearby bomb explodes. (BBC)
- Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton claims the United States deliberately resisted calls for an immediate ceasefire during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. (BBC)
- Amnesty International calls on governments not to co-operate with U.S. military in trials of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. (BBC)
- The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is identified as the part of the human brain that combines logic and emotion in order to make moral decisions. (The Times)
- Insurgency in Somalia:
- Clashes flare up in Mogadishu between the interim government forces and local militiamen. (Shabelle.net)
- Heavy fighting between interim government forces from Puntland and local militia erupts in Adado, 500 km north of Mogadishu. (Shabelle.net)