Current events of 10 May 2007 (2007-05-10) (Thursday) edit history watch

The United States House of Representatives passes a $96 billion war spending measure which sets benchmarks for achievements in the War in Iraq in return for funding. (CNN) Pope Benedict XVI urges tens of thousands of young Brazilian Catholics packing the Pacaembu stadium in São Paulo to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other "snares of evil," and tells them to promote life from "its beginning to natural end." (CNN) Military officers from North Korea and South Korea agree on the first cross-border rail link over their heavily fortified border since the Korean War. (BBC) President Bashar al-Assad states that Syria will not cooperate with a United Nations tribunal to try suspects in the suspected assassination of former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafiq al-Hariri. (The Guardian) The Grand National Assembly of Turkey votes overwhelmingly in favour of a proposal for the direct election of the President of Turkey. (AP via CNN) Syrian dissident Kamal Labwani is jailed for 12 years for allegedly undermining national security by visiting the United States. (BBC) The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair announces he will step down on June 27, once the Labour Party has elected a successor. (BBC)