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February 7, 2008 (Thursday)
- A gunman kills five and wounds two people at city hall before being shot and killed by police in Kirkwood, Missouri. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) (Reuters)
- Four people die and dozens are hurt in an explosion at a sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia. (CNN)
- The United States Congress approves a $168 billion economic stimulus package and sends it to President George W. Bush for his approval. (The New York Times)
- The Slovakian Parliament vote on the Lisbon Treaty ratification is indefinitely postponed. (SkToday.com)
- The National Assembly of France approves the Treaty of Lisbon by 336 votes to 52. (AP via Google News)
- Space Shuttle Atlantis launches successfully on its STS-122 mission. (Fox News)
- British Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri will be extradited to the United States to face terror charges. (BBC News)
- There are mass arrests in the United States and Italy in an anti-Mafia sweep including three suspected senior members of the Gambino crime family. (Reuters)
- 2008 United States presidential election: Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney suspends his campaign. (CNN)
- The Orthodox Church of Greece elects a new leader, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens. (CNN)
- NATO meets in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- No agreement on Afghanistan ahead of NATO meeting. (AFP via Google News)
- Robert Gates will discuss the need to boost NATO forces in Afghanistan. (Presszoom)
- The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband visit Afghanistan. (AP via Google News)
- Rio Tinto rejects BHP Billiton's $147 billion hostile takeover bid. (Financial Times)
- WHO declares global tobacco control efforts and an approach to avoid tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century. (WHO)
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