Portal:Current events/2007 February 16

• Palestinians clash with Israeli police in East Jerusalem over archaelogical excavations near the al-Aqsa mosque. (Reuters via ABC Australia Online)
• Jundallah militants set off a second bomb in Zahedan. Firefights with Iranian police ensue. Casualties are unknown. (CBS News)
• A Turkish court hands down life sentences to seven Al Qaeda associates for their involvement in the 2003 Istanbul bombings. (AFP via ABC Australia Online)
• Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari is charged in Manhattan with financing terrorism and material support of terrorism for allegedly passing on money for a training camp in Afghanistan. (AP via IHT)
• General Motors is in talks to buy DaimlerChrysler AG's struggling Chrysler Group in its entirety. (CNN)
• The United States House of Representatives passes House Concurrent resolution 63; a non-binding resolution criticising U.S. President George W. Bush's Surge Plan in Iraq. (BBC) (Clerk.House.gov
• An Italian judge has ordered 26 U.S. citizens—most of them CIA agents—to stand trial over the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. (BBC)
• Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the current leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has been wounded in fighting in Baghdad according to Arab TV stations. (BBC)
• The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai meets with the Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi to discuss Italian contributions to the fight against the Taliban and drug traffickers in Afghanistan. (BBC)

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