Portal:Current events/2007 June 26
June 26, 2007 (Tuesday)
- Bolivia reclaims two oil refineries from Brazilian state-owned energy company Petrobras. (BBC)
- The militant group Army of Islam, holding BBC Middle East correspondent Alan Johnston captive, renews its threat to kill him. (CNN)
- The Central Intelligence Agency releases the "family jewels," secret documents detailing illegal activities—including a plot to hire members of the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro—and domestic spying. (Reuters)
- On the eve of Gordon Brown's assuming office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Conservative Member of Parliament Quentin Davies defects to the Labour Party. (Financial Times)
- An International Atomic Energy Agency team heads to North Korea to see if Pyongyang's nuclear reactor has been shut down. (Reuters)
- Tony Blair and Arnold Schwarzenegger hold talks at 10 Downing Street on Blair's last day as Prime Minister; the environment and climate change are the primary issue. (Guardian UK) (Guardian UK)
- In the United Kingdom, hundreds of people are evacuated from villages in South Yorkshire, and a section of the M1 motorway is closed amid fears of an imminent collapse of the dam at the Ulley reservoir following heavy rainfall and widespread flooding across the UK. (BBC)