Portal:Current events/2007 March 27
March 27, 2007 (Tuesday)
- More than ninety people are burnt to death after a fire following a petrol spill in Kaduna State, Nigeria. (All Africa)
- The village of Um el-Nasser in the Gaza Strip is flooded with sewage after the wall of a sewage pond gives way resulting in at least four deaths. (Washington Post)
- Heavy flooding after several days of heavy rain in Hispaniola have resulted in 11 people dying and thousands of people being evacuated in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (BBC)
- A 12-km stretch of the Rhine near Cologne, Germany is closed to shipping following the loss of 31 containers from a container ship with 200 ships backed up. (Washington Post)
- Iraq War:
- Suicide car bombings kill at least 55 people and injure 120 in Tal Afar. (ABC News Australia)
- The United States Senate votes 50-48 to set a deadline for withdrawal from the war in Iraq as part of a measure providing continuing funding. (CBC)(AFP via New Straits Times)
- United States district court judge Thomas Hogan dismisses a case of alleged torture against former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld brought by nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. (USA Today)
- Taiwan unveils an upgraded version of their Ching-kuo fighter aircraft called the Hsung Ying made by the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation. (AFP via News Limited)
- The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert and the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas agree to limited biweekly peace talks. (New York Times)
- The Blair Government introduces legislation into the Parliament of the United Kingdom to facilitate a power-sharing agreement in Northern Ireland between Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin. (BBC)