Portal:Current events/2007 June 16
June 16, 2007 (Saturday)
- Tupua Tamasese Tupuola Tufuga Efi is chosen as the O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa by the Fono. (AAP via News Limited)
- Mike Nifong is disbarred in the U.S. state of North Carolina for his role in the prosecution of the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case. (AP via WRAL)[permanent dead link]
- Police in Zimbabwe confiscate opposition leader Arthur Mutambara's passport as he tries to leave for South Africa and the United Kingdom. (VOA)
- The Chinese Ministry of Labour and Social Security undertakes an investigation into claims that up to 1,000 minors worked as slave labour in central China. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Iraq War: U.S. soldiers find the Common Access Card ID cards of two captured U.S. soldiers; Iraqi insurgents had previously released a video containing images of the IDs. (CNN)