Events in September 2007
Sept. 2: British and U.S. scientists announce uncovering the first gene that helps explain common differences in height among humans.
U.K. troops begin pullout from Basra city in Iraq.
Sept. 3: The former Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khalida Zia, and her younger son Afarat Rahman Coco are arrested in a corruption case.
Sept. 4: The opposition Jamaica Labour Party wins election ousting the first woman Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.
An Iraqi appeals court upholds the death sentence against Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan-al-Majeed known as “Chemical Ali”, for masterminding a genocidal campaign against the Kurds in the 1980s.
Sept. 6: A South Korean appeals court suspends the three year jail sentence of Hyundai Motor Group Chief Chung Mong-Koo for fraud.
Sept. 8: The APEC summit in Australia adopts the Sydney Declaration on climate change, the centrepiece of the “APEC Action Agenda.”
Sept. 9: Taiwanese director Ang Lee’s film Lust, Caution (Se, Jie) bags the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Sept. 10: The former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is arrested on corruption charges and deported to Saudi Arabia soon after arrival from London at the Islamabad airport.
Kumaran Pathmanathan Chief LTTE overseas arms procurer and second most wanted man in Sri Lanka is arrested in the Thailand capital Bangkok.
Sept. 11: Russia announces successful testing of a new lethal thermobaric bomb described as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear weapon.
Sept. 12: An 8.4 magnitude earthquake off Indonesia’s Sumatra island leaves 10 dead and triggers 3 metre high small tsunami, followed by a series of powerful aftershocks. Serangai village is badly hit.
Viktor Zubkov is named new Russian Prime Minister.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigns after holding office for just about a year citing failure to secure the people’s trust to pursue reforms.
The former Philippines President, Joseph Estrada, is sentenced to life after an anti-graft court finds him guilty of plunder.
Sept. 14: Russian State Duma votes overwhelmingly to confirm Viktor Zubkov’s nomination as Prime Minister.
Sept. 17: The European Court of First Instance upholds the European Commission’s 2004 record fine of £ 497 million against software giant Microsoft for abusing its Windows monopoly.
Sept. 18: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) quits the five-month-old coalition government.
Sept. 19: Nuon Chea, a key architect of the Khmer Rouge bloody rule, known as Brother No. 2 is arrested by Cambodian police for crimes against humanity.
Antoine Ghanem, a Lebanese MP and eight others are killed in a car bombing in a Christian suburb of Beirut.
Sept. 21: Chile’s Supreme Court rules that the former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, be extradited to face human rights and corruption charges in Peru.
Sept. 22: The former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, flies to his home country after being extradited by Chile.
Sept. 24: The Nepali Congress and its breakaway faction NC — Democratic agree to reunite after a five-year split.
Sept. 25: Yasuo Fukuda takes office as Japanese Prime Minister after Shinzo Abe formally resigns after just a year at the helm.
Fiftythousand Buddhist monks and as many civilians swarm the streets of Myanmar capital Yangon to protest economic hardships.
The Nepali Congress and the Nepali Congress Democratic seal unification deal.
Sept. 26: Three Buddhist monks are killed in an attack by security forces on protestors near the iconic Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.
Sept. 28: The Pakistan Supreme Court clears the way for President General Pervez Musharraf to contest the October 6 presidential polls while remaining Army Chief, dismissing petitions challenging his eligibility.
Sept. 30: The Bangladesh High Court orders freeing of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on bail and halting further prosecution on corruption charges.
Ukraine holds snap parliamentary elections.
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