Current events of 16 June 2007 (2007-06-16) (Saturday) edit history watch

Tupua Tamasese Tupuola Tufuga Efi is chosen as the O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa by the Fono. (AAP via News Limited) Mike Nifong is disbarred in the U.S. state of North Carolina for his role in the prosecution of the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case. (AP via WRAL) Police in Zimbabwe confiscate opposition leader Arthur Mutambara's passport as he tries to leave for South Africa and the United Kingdom. (VOA) The Chinese Ministry of Labour and Social Security undertakes an investigation into claims that up to 1,000 minors worked as slave labour in central China. (Reuters via ABC News Australia) Iraq War: U.S. soldiers find the Common Access Card ID cards of two captured U.S. soldiers; Iraqi insurgents had previously released a video containing images of the IDs. (CNN)