Portal:Current events/2007 January 9
January 9, 2007 (Tuesday)
- YouTube is unblocked in Brazil as a São Paulo state court revises its ruling for Daniela Cicarelli video clips. (Reuters)
- North Korea and weapons of mass destruction:
- A top U.S. general says that he believes North Korea may conduct another nuclear test in the future. (AP via ABC News)
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls for closer international co-operation against a nuclear North Korea. (BBC News)
- Mohammad Tavakoli, an Iranian legislator, announces the arrest of an alleged spy and suspected member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq. Tavakoli said the man leaked information about Iran's nuclear program. (RFE/RL)
- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev nominates Deputy Prime Minister Karim Masimov for Prime Minister. The Parliament will convene on 10 January to vote on the nomination. (UPI)
- The ÖVP, the future minority partner in the grand coalition government that will be sworn in in Austria on 2007-01-11, announces its future ministers. (IHT)
- The European Parliament undergoes mid-term changes in advance of its first 2007 session:
- Far right parliamentarians increase their influence within the European Parliament by founding a new transnational caucus. (EUObserver)
- Alsatian farmer Joseph Daul, an MEP from France's UMP party, is elected chairman of the largest caucus in the European Parliament, EPP–ED. He succeeds Hans-Gert Pöttering, widely anticipated to be elected President of the European Parliament next week. (EUX.TV)
- Hindu holy men in India threaten to boycott the Ganges River Festival because of pollution. (AP via ABC News)
- CIA kidnap case: Hearings begin in Italy on whether to charge 25 CIA agents with kidnapping for the "extraordinary rendition" of Osama Nasr in 2003. The named agents have left the country. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
- Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone and changes the company name to Apple Inc. at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco. (Bloomberg) (CNN) (Wired News) (InfoWorld)