Current Events, July 1-15, 2008
- July 14
- Syria’s leader Bashar Assad welcomed in France [2]
- Dozens charged with Turkish coup plot [3]
- Barack Obama to meet with Palestinians [4]
- July 13
- Mediterranean Union is launched [5]
- The New Yorker cover, too close to the truth? [6]
- Iran to target "32 US bases" if attacked [7]
- President George Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran [8]
- July 12
- Russian royal pushes fight for Tsar's exoneration [9]
- Oil sets new record near $147 a barrel [10]
- Israeli jets practice bombing raids in the skies over Iraq [11]
- Two people found dead at music festival in Norway [12]
- Presidential race dead even [13]
- Cynthia McKinney, Green Party presidential nominee [14]
- Russia comes to the aid of Mugabe [15]
- Folk singer Pete Seeger to do benefit for New England farmers [16]
- Protestant marches sparks violence in Catholic areas of Northern Ireland [17]
- Lebanon and Syria to renew diplomatic ties [18]
- July 11
- Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed to join the Obama road trip in Iraq [19]
- Obama’s backlash from the left [20]
- Green Party members meet to pick a presidential candidate [21]
- Lebanon forms unity government with Hezbollah [22]
- Former US diplomat get prison term for threats against Arab American Institute [23]
- Obama still leads McCain in fund-raising [24]
- Russia, China veto U.N. Zimbabwe sanctions [25]
- Israel rejects Iraqi claims Israeli fighters are exercising at American air bases in planned attack on Iran.[26]
- Israeli opinion maker supports the vandalism of Hitler wax figure [27]
- July 10
- July 9
- Edit your DNA: 'Gene wiki' to debut on Wikipedia [30]
- Media moguls meet at annual Sun Val retreat [31]
- Ruth Greenglass, member of Jewish Soviet spy ring dead at 84 [32]
- Israel’s enemies no longer fear her [33]
- Israel’s nuclear secrets revealed [34]
- Jesse Jackson says Obama "talking down" to blacks [35]
- Iran ready to retaliate with thousands of missiles if war comes [36]
- Kremlin fingered in Litvinenko's murder [37]
- July 8
- Hebrew tablet suggests a Jewish messiah before Jesus Christ [38]
- Swiss People's Party asks for referendum to ban minarets [39]
- France asks Italy to pardon ex-Red Brigades member [40]
- Pakistani intelligence service ISI suspected in Indian embassy bombing in Afghanistan.
- Builder discovers "priceless" Tolkien postcard [41]
- US and Czechs sign missile defense deal [42]
- Egypt asks Israel to reopen Gaza border crossings [43]
- July 7
- July 6
- Israel burying nuclear waste in Golan Heights [48]
- Protesters attack Hungarian homosexuals [49]
- Lord's Resistance Army rebel leader now says he wants peace [50]
- Oil will skyrocket if Iran is attacked [51]
- Ron Paul says the US is moving toward 'soft fascism' [52]
- July 5
- Obama to ape Kennedy and Reagan in Berlin [53]
- Blacks and Browns can’t get along [54]
- Their game: Obama poker, McCain craps [55]
- Identity of ‘Hitler’ attacker kept secret in the press [56][57][58]
- Magna Carta to be displayed in NYC [59]
- Hitler wax figure attacked [60]
- If attacked, Iran vows retaliation [61]
- July 4
- Ron Paul says US Congress wants a war with Iran [62]
- Hundreds of Zimbabweans seek refuge at US embassy [63]
- Wax figure of Hitler goes on display in Germany, but no pictures please [64]
- Israel plans collective punishment against 20 innocent dwellers [65]
- Italy tries to save the ruins of Pompeii [66]
- Conspiracy theories surround the collapse of WTC 7 [67]
- Mysterious collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11 now ‘solved’ [68]
- Southern conservative Senator Jesse Helms dies at 86 [69]
- Poland rejects U.S. missile shield offer [70]
- Who planned the anthrax attacks? [71]
- Bomb explodes at Belarus independence day concert [72]
- July 3
- July 2
- Jonathan Pollard may not get his presidential pardon this year [77]
- Press TV: Iran’s English language news service first anniversary [78]
- Palestinians attempt to breakout of Gaza [79]
- Georgia authorities probe unsolved lynchings [80]
- Singer substitutes “Star Spangled Banner” with “Black National Anthem” [81]
- Democrats: the party of Satan [82]
- Oil rich Gulf states turn to burning coal [83]
- Hezbollah agrees to prisoner swap with Israel [84]
- Iran willing to negotiate nuclear issues [85]
- Bush responds saying first option is diplomacy [86]
- Battered White farmers vow to battle on against Robert Mugabe [87]
- Russian scientists in bid to solve Tunguska event [88]
- NRA campaigns to keep Obama out of White House [89]
- Top U.S. military officer suggests Israeli strike on Iran would be high-risk [90]
- July 1
- How to stop the Great Crash of '08 [91]
- Denmark is the world's happiest country [92]
- More charges for Jewish oligarch Khodorkovsky [93]
- DCRI: new French domestic security agency created [94]
- Sarkozy to hold talks in Paris with President Bashar Assad of Syria [95]
- Turkey arrests 21 Islamic nationalists [96]
