Portal:Current events/2007 February 26

February 26, 2007 (Monday)

Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye becomes the new Prime Minister of Chad, replacing interim PM Adoum Younousmi who stood in for Pascal Yoadimnadji since Yoadimnadji's death on 23 February 2007 in Paris. (IHT)
Guinean general strike, 2007: President of Guinea Lansana Conté appoints Lansana Kouyaté as the new Prime Minister of Guinea after reaching an agreement with the trade union movement and the Opposition. (BBC)
Talpiot Tomb: Film director James Cameron claims to have found ossuaries that once contained the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, his disciple Mary Magdalene, and their son, named Judah. (CNN)
Insurgency in Saudi Arabia: At least three French citizens have been shot dead in an attack near the historical site of Madain Saleh. (Al Jazeera)
Iraq:
- The Iraqi Government has come to an agreement to divide oil revenue and encourage foreign investment in the country. (CNN)
- A bomb inside the Iraqi Ministry of Public Works kills at least five people. It also injures Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi and the Minister for Public Works Reyad Ghareeb in a possible assassination attempt. (New York Times)
The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in a case brought forth by Bosnia and Herzegovina. (The Guardian)
The Daily Telegraph reports that Israel is negotiating with the United States for an air corridor over Iraq to carry out an air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Efraim Sneh calls the information "baseless." (The Daily Telegraph) Archived 2007-11-05 at the Wayback Machine (Persian Journal)^{[permanent dead link]} (United Press International) (Chicago Tribune)^{[permanent dead link]} (The Guardian)
The preliminary inquiry by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch into the Grayrigg rail crash finds that a key part of the set of points was missing. (The Daily Telegraph) Archived 2008-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
Scientists find over 20 new species of animals as the Larsen Ice Shelf breaks in the Antarctic. (The Times)
Four Guatemalan police officers jailed for the 19 February slaying of three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament are shot dead inside a maximum security prison; a riot ensues. (BBC)
Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney makes surprise visits to Pakistan and Afghanistan to encourage President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai to increase border security between the two countries and to take further action against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. (Bloomberg)
United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne announces the deployment of an additional 1,400 troops to Afghanistan. (BBC)