Portal:Current events/2007 December 12
December 12, 2007 (Wednesday)
- United States President George W. Bush vetos an expansion of the federally funded, State Children's Health Insurance Program for the second time. (CNN)
- The International Olympic Committee strips sprinter Marion Jones of five medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics after she admits to having taken banned substances. (Reuters)
- Merck & Co. recalls a million doses of a childhood vaccines after tests show a sterilization problem at a Pennsylvania factory. (AP via Google News)
- The Lebanese armed forces' chief of operations, General François al-Hajj, is killed in a bomb attack in Beirut. (BBC News)
- Russia orders the British Council to suspend the majority of its Russian operations by January 2008. (BBC News)
- Christoph Blocher, the leading figure of the right-wing People's Party, is voted out of office in the elections to the Swiss Federal Council. (Swissinfo.org)