Current events of 17 April 2007 (2007-04-17) (Tuesday) edit history watch

Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament suspends a former Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden and 29 other Members of Parliament for failing to attend sessions in recent months. (AP via Washington Post) Nineteen people die in Rio de Janeiro in gun battles between police and drug gangs. (BBC) Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-hui Cho is identified as the spree shooter in the attacks. (NPR) U.S. President Bush joins thousands of mourners at a memorial service for the victims. (AFP via ABC News Australia) Iccho Ito, the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, is shot at least twice outside his re-election campaign headquarters. The assassin, Tetsuya Shiroo, is alleged to be a senior member of a local gang affiliated to the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate. (Reuters) (AP via IHT) The Olympic Council of Asia chooses Incheon, South Korea over New Delhi, India, to host the 2014 Asian Games. (BBC) Four Nepalese United Nations workers and their driver are killed in a roadside bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (BBC) Kevin Rudd, the leader of the Australian Labor Party, announces changes to the party's industrial relations policy, including the right to a secret ballot before strike action. (AAP via Melbourne Age)