Portal:Current events/2008 February 7

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• A gunman kills five and wounds two people at city hall before being shot and killed by police in Kirkwood, Missouri. [http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/C9F47E8DFBA0B871862573E90007E20F?OpenDocument (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0743157520080208 (Reuters)]
• Four people die and dozens are hurt in an explosion at a sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia. [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/07/sugar.plant.explosion/index.html (CNN)]
• The United States Congress approves a $168 billion economic stimulus package and sends it to President George W. Bush for his approval. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/washington/07cnd-fiscal.html (The New York Times)]
• The Slovakian Parliament vote on the Lisbon Treaty ratification is indefinitely postponed. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080213010743/http://www.sktoday.com/content/1197_slovakia-039-s-vote-lisbon-treaty-ratification-postponed-indefinitely (SkToday.com)]
• The National Assembly of France approves the Treaty of Lisbon by 336 votes to 52. [http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hLDOR1F7xeyNdlzDXl0HzskwZkuA (AP via Google News)]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Space Shuttle Atlantis launches successfully on its STS-122 mission. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329069,00.html (Fox News)]
• British Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri will be extradited to the United States to face terror charges. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7233671.stm (BBC News)]
• There are mass arrests in the United States and Italy in an anti-Mafia sweep including three suspected senior members of the Gambino crime family. [https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0790481820080207 (Reuters)]
• 2008 United States presidential election: Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney suspends his campaign. [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.html (CNN)]
• The Orthodox Church of Greece elects a new leader, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens. [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/07/greek.orthodox/index.html (CNN)]
• NATO meets in Vilnius, Lithuania.
• No agreement on Afghanistan ahead of NATO meeting. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110520121229/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghw0b8kmbA8iuyMyapW8LeRALRdg (AFP via Google News)]
• Robert Gates will discuss the need to boost NATO forces in Afghanistan. [http://presszoom.com/story_143339.html (Presszoom)]
• The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband visit Afghanistan. [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijDA5bgxiHlTvS_r-SSjskS1Tq1wD8UL9GC00 (AP via Google News)]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Rio Tinto rejects BHP Billiton's $147 billion hostile takeover bid. [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12f7e4c6-d51e-11dc-9af1-0000779fd2ac.html (Financial Times)]
• WHO declares global tobacco control efforts and an approach to avoid tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century. [http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr04/en/index.html (WHO)]

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