Events in March 2007
March 1: India formally seeks extradition of Ottavio Quattrochi the prime accused in the Bofors kickbacks case from Argentina.
March 2: The Chechen Parliament elects Ramzan Kadyrov President.
Ivan Safronov, a senior Russian journalist is found dead outside his Moscow flat.
March 4: The Kuwaiti Cabinet quits after being in power for just eight months to avoid a no-confidence vote against a senior Minister.
March 7: Voters cast ballot to elect a new 108-member Provincial Assembly in Northern Ireland.
Israeli Air Force unveils the world’s largest spy drone called Heron in English and Mahatz in Hebrew.
March 9: The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, ousts the Chief Justice Ifthikar Mohammed Chaudhary. Justice Javed Iqbal is sworn in as acting Chief Justice.
Northern Ireland’s electorate gives a thumping mandate to Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party.
Nepal’s Interim Parliament passes a bill to amend the interim statute paving the way for establishing a federal structure of governance.
March 12: India’s latest communications satellite, INSAT-4B is launched successfully by Arianespace’s Ariane-5 vehicle from the Kourou island in French Guiana.
BBC journalist Alan Johnston is kidnapped at gunpoint while driving home from work in Gaza City.
March 14: The British House of Lords throws out reform plans, votes for fully appointed chamber, shunning elections.
March 16: China’s Parliament passes a landmark property rights bill that gives private and public property equal protection under law.
March 17: A Hamas-Fatah coalition Palestinian Government is installed and a 25-member Cabinet sworn in.
March 20: The former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan is hanged for crimes against humanity. Eleven Iraqis are killed in a series of attacks in Baghdad.
March 23: The U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill to bring most combat troops home from Iraq by September 1, 2008.
March 24: Justice Rana Bhagwandas is sworn in Pakistan acting Chief Justice at the Supreme Court’s Karachi registry.
The U.N. Security Council passes a resolution to expand sanctions against Iran imposed last year following Tehran’s failure to suspend uranium enrichment.
March 25: Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan (55) dies of a heart attack at his home.
Chinese-backed leader Donald Tsang is re-elected Hong Kong’s Chief Executive for a third term.
March 26: The LTTE launches the first-ever air strike targeting the main military base of the Sri Lanka Air Force on the outskirts of Colombo.
Northern Ireland’s rival party leaders reach a landmark deal to restore self-rule in Belfast on May 8.
David Hicks an Australian trained by the Al-Qaeda pleads guilty in the first conviction of a Guantanamo detenu in a military commission.
March 27: The LTTE lunches a suicide attack on an Army camp in Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka leaving eight persons dead.
At least 152 people are killed and 347 injured in a suicide bomb attack and car bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar.
March 28: The United Kingdom freezes contact with Iran.
March 29: At least 125 persons are killed in twin bomb blasts at a market in the Shiite Shaab district of Baghdad and a bomb attack in the eastern Shia town of Khalis.
The U.S. Senate passes a bill calling for troops pullout from Iraq by March 31, 2008.
March 30: David Hicks, an Australian detenu is found guilty of providing material support for terrorism, the first conviction at a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
Eighty countries sign a U.N. convention enshrining the rights of the disabled.
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