Portal:Current events/2007 January 9

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• YouTube is unblocked in Brazil as a São Paulo state court revises its ruling for Daniela Cicarelli video clips. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070320180517/http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN (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. [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2780621 (AP via ABC News)]
• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls for closer international co-operation against a nuclear North Korea. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6241191.stm (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. [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/01/629E9CF9-9348-4811-86EB-E64A4281BFAA.html (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. [http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070109-092709-1103r (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. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/09/europe/EU-POL-Austria-New-Government.php (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. [http://euobserver.com/9/23223 (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. [http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=2106 (EUX.TV)]
• Hindu holy men in India threaten to boycott the Ganges River Festival because of pollution. [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2780018&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (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. [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5BE47410-D116-4168-BDC7-C4EF701F108E.htm (Al Jazeera)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6243991.stm (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. [https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDENdA6FCxQg&refer=home (Bloomberg)] [http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/09/technology/apple_jobs/index.htm?cnn=yes (CNN)] [https://www.wired.com/news/culture/mac/0,72447-0.html (Wired News)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20070111062742/http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/09/HNiphoneappletv_1.html (InfoWorld)]

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