Portal:Current events/2007 August 6

{{Current events|year=2007|month=08|day=6|content=

• Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer gave a mandate to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to form his second cabinet following a landslide victory for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the general elections. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165102/http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=80247 (Turkish Daily News)]
• Mexico and Brazil sign an agreement on developing technology for oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation involving co-operation between Pemex and Petrobras. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/07/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Brazil-Energy.php (AP via IHT)]
• The Lebanese government claim that the police have killed Abu Hureira, the second in command of Fatah al-Islam. [https://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/06/ap3992797.html (AP via Forbes)]
• Trinidad Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls orders the extradition of three men to the United States to face charges of involvement in a terrorist attack on John F. Kennedy Airport. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/nyregion/07jfk.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (New York Times)]
• United States District Court judge Ronald Whyte strikes down a California law aiming to prohibit minors from buying or renting violent video games on First Amendment grounds. [http://au.games.ign.com/articles/811/811021p1.html (IGN)]
• An Arizona judge rules that a United States Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett must stand trial for murder for shooting dead a Mexican immigrant. [https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0645298420070807?feedType=RSS (Reuters)]
• The United States Food and Drug Administration approves Pfizer's AIDS drug Selzentry. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110917123344/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=0fc48006-5e42-42c2-b6aa-ac629c3254e4&k=26234 (Reuters via National Post)]
• 50 feared dead when a boat carrying 130 passengers overturned in the midstream of River Ganges in Bihar, India.
• Five members of the Iraqiya coalition led by former Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi suspend their participation in the current Cabinet led by Nouri al-Maliki. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html?ex=1344139200&en=86a447ff33580026&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (New York Times)], [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6934031.stm (BBC)]
• NASA reports that three galaxies the size of the Milky Way are colliding with another galaxy three times the size of the Milky Way in galaxy cluster CL0958+4702. The eventual galaxy could be up to ten times the size of the Milky Way. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6933566.stm (BBC)]
• A second case of foot and mouth disease is reported in Surrey, England, resulting in the culling of more cattle. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/07/1998164.htm (AFP via ABC News Australia)]
• Six miners are trapped in a coal mine 15 miles west of Huntington, Utah. A 3.9 to 4.5 [https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/uu00007535.php (USGS)] magnitude earthquake was reported in the area around the time of the cave-in. [https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0641764920070806?src=080607_1406_TOPSTORY_coal_mine_collapses (Reuters)]
• Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina files petitions challenging government move to try her in connection with an extortion case.
• North Korea and South Korea exchange gun fire over the border, the first such incident in a year. [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/06/korea.shooting.reut/index.html?eref=rss_world (CNN)]
• José Ramos-Horta, the President of East Timor, selects Xanana Gusmão as the Prime Minister of East Timor. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6932860.stm (BBC)]
• A truck bomb in Tal Afar in northern Iraq kills at least 25 people and destroys 10 homes. [https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSGRA62190420070806?feedType=RSS (Reuters)]
• Sir Michael Somare's National Alliance Party forms a coalition with six partners which will be the next government of Papua New Guinea. [http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=34182 (Radio New Zealand)]
• Flooding in Lagos, Nigeria, leads to thousands of people being forced from their homes and six people going missing. [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=18613§ionid=3510205 (Reuters via Press TV)]
• International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors examine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/06/1997618.htm (AFP via ABC News Australia)]
• Japan marks the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501670.html (Reuters via Washington Post)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102185706/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501670.html |date=2012-11-02 }}
• A state of emergency is declared in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik due to a forest fire. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6932578.stm (BBC)]
• The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert and the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas meet to discuss the establishment of a Palestinian state. [https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0542035220070806?feedType=RSS (Reuters)]

}}