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September 21, 2007 (Friday)
- The Nelson Mandela Foundation is assuring the public that the former South African president is still alive, after comments by U.S. President George Bush that "...Mandela is dead." (The Independent)
- Two students are shot at Delaware State University. (NYT)
- NASA releases new plans for moon base in 2020. (NYT)
- Buddhist monks stage a brief demonstration in Myanmar making it the fourth successive day of protests. (CNN)
- Angolan police arrest Jomo Gbomo, the head of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a rebel organization in Nigeria. (The Times)
- At least 27 people have died in the Karachi area of Pakistan after drinking poisonous alcohol. (AP via Fox News)
- War in Afghanistan:
- NATO's alliance forces say that its warplanes killed an unspecified number of civilians during a battle with Taliban forces. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- A suicide bomber attacks a convoy of soldiers killing a French soldier and several Afghans. (BBC)
- The Dutch Cabinet meets to decide whether to hold a referendum on the European Union's Reform Treaty. (BBC)
- Chilean Supreme Court approves extradition of Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori on numerous charges, including the massacres of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. (BBC)
- Mattel admits that most of the toys recalled in recent safety scares had "design flaws" and that Chinese manufacturers were not to blame. (BBC)
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