Portal:Current events/2007 December 12

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• United States President George W. Bush vetos an expansion of the federally funded, State Children's Health Insurance Program for the second time. [http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/12/bush.schip/?iref=mpstoryview (CNN)]
• The International Olympic Committee strips sprinter Marion Jones of five medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics after she admits to having taken banned substances. [https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSL1220829120071212 (Reuters)]
• Merck & Co. recalls a million doses of a childhood vaccines after tests show a sterilization problem at a Pennsylvania factory. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071221021958/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGAbaEn2I-4TEgFdrye5Hx4h9RbwD8TG5LI80 (AP via Google News)]
• The Lebanese armed forces' chief of operations, General François al-Hajj, is killed in a bomb attack in Beirut. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7139809.stm (BBC News)]
• Russia orders the British Council to suspend the majority of its Russian operations by January 2008. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7139959.stm (BBC News)]
• Christoph Blocher, the leading figure of the right-wing People's Party, is voted out of office in the elections to the Swiss Federal Council. [http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/Suspense_builds_over_cabinet_elections.html?siteSect=105&sid=8523720 (Swissinfo.org)]

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