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Current events of
March 26, 2008
(
2008-03-26
)
(Wednesday)
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The
Space Shuttle
Endeavour
lands at
Cape Canaveral
,
Florida
in a rare nighttime landing ending a
16-day mission
to the
International Space Station
.
(
The New York Times
)
Ford Motor Company
announces it will sell its
British
luxury-car
brands
Jaguar
and
Land Rover
to
India
's
Tata Motors
for
$
2.3 billion.
(MarketWatch)
The
United States
embassy in
Cairo
confirms that the crew of a
United States Navy
-contracted ship killed an
Egyptian
when it opened fire on a small boat near the
Suez Canal
.
(AFP via Google News)
2008 unrest in Tibet
:
The first foreign journalists allowed in
Tibet
since the outbreak of the unrest arrive in
Lhasa
.
(AP via Google News)
The
President of the United States of America
George W. Bush
calls the
President of the People's Republic of China
Hu Jintao
to raise concerns about events in Tibet.
(AP via Fox News)
Iraq war
:
The death toll from the
Battle of Basra (2008)
rises to 40 dead and 200 injured in two days of fighting between
Shiite
militias and the
Iraqi military
.
(UK Press via Google News)
A federal
indictment
of a former official of
Life for Relief and Development
claims that
Saddam Hussein
's
Iraqi Intelligence Service
paid for a U.S. congressional delegation's trip to the country during the buildup to the war. A spokesman for the
Department of Justice
said the congressmen on the
State Department
-approved trip were not aware of this, and that "[n]one of the congressional representatives are accused of any wrongdoing."
(CNN)
The
South Korean
government decides to vote for a resolution on
North Korean
human rights
violations in the
United Nations Human Rights Council
.
(Chosun Ilbo)
A 41 km × 2.5 km
chunk of ice
(102.5 km²,
see size comparisons
) breaks away from the
Antarctic
Wilkins ice shelf
, heralding the disintegration of the remaining 14,000 km
2
.
(BBC News)
(CNN)
A Californian
federal
judge has ruled that the heirs of
Jerry Siegel
have a valid claim to a share in the
United States
copyright which
Time Warner
holds in the
Superman
character.
(NY Times)
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