Portal:Current events/2007 May 18
May 18, 2007 (Friday)
- A bomb in a market place in Juliaca in southern Peru kills 6 people and injures about 50. (BBC)
- Black Swan Project: Deep sea explorers retrieve 17 tons of colonial era silver and gold coins with an estimated value of US$500 million. (CNN)
- Two ABC News employees are killed by unknown assailants in Baghdad. (Reuters via the Australian)
- 9 people are killed in a bomb blast at the Mecca Masjid mosque in the Indian city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. [1]
- The Parliament of Kazakhstan votes to allow the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to stand for an unlimited number of terms. (BBC)
- A home-made bomb explodes in a bus terminal in Cotabato in the southern Philippines, killing 3 people and injuring 15. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- Rioting breaks out in Guangxi province, China, in protest at the government imposing fines for breaches of its strict one-child policy. (BBC)