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- The Congress of France (the National Assembly and the Senate meeting together) passes a bill that would make major changes to the Constitution of France, with a margin of only one vote; this bill is designed to strengthen Parliament, while establishing a two-term presidential term limit and allowing the President to speak before Parliament. And if by some really akward chance this doesn't work they could also develop a more sophisticated margin symbol to be added into grammar, and be used by all non carciture forms of writing forever.(BBC News)
- Russia and China sign a pact demarcating their 4,300-kilometer border, bringing an end to more than 40 years of negotiations. (BBC News)
- Fugitive Radovan Karadžić, indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, is arrested in Serbia. (BBC News)
- The United States Food and Drug Administration finds the same salmonella strain responsible for the 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak in Mexican-grown jalapeño peppers. (AP via Google News)
- The first terrorism trial of a Guantanamo Bay inmate begins with Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty. (CBC)
- Yahoo! reaches a deal with Carl Icahn giving him three seats on its board of directors. (Bloomberg)
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- Nepal's presidential election concludes with Ram Baran Yadav winning with a majority. (China Daily)
- At least three people die and 14 are injured in deliberate explosions on buses in the city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province in the People's Republic of China. (Reuters)
- A United States Air Force B-52 bomber crashes near Guam in the western Pacific Ocean. (AP via MSNBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI holds a special mass in Sydney for victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy. (Al-Jazeera)
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- Golfer Pádraig Harrington of Ireland wins his second successive Open Championship (British Open). (AP via Google News)
- The Dark Knight sets a new record for box office receipts for an opening weekend in the United States with US$158.4 million earned between Friday and Sunday. (Entertainment Weekly)
- The Colombian diaspora celebrates Colombia's Independence Day with concerts and marches against violence, kidnapping and the FARC in Bogotá, Leticia, the country's other 1,119 cities and municipalities, and events in cities around the world including Paris (attended by Ingrid Betancourt), London, Washington, New York City and Miami. (BBC News) (El Tiempo)
- At least 13 Afghan police and civilians are killed in an airstrike by NATO forces two weeks after an airstrike killed 52 civilians at a wedding. (BBC News)
- Beijing introduces traffic restrictions and factory closures in an effort to reduce air pollution for the 2008 Summer Olympics. (Reuters)
- 500,000 people attend the closing mass of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, who announces Madrid as the host city for the next World Youth Day in 2011. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- 1,600,000 people attend the Loveparade in Dortmund, Germany. (AFP via Google News)
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