2007 Review: September

RIA Novosti looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month by month review of 2007 continues, with September

September 2

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran has installed and is running more than 3,000 nuclear centrifuges used for enriching uranium

* Greece's fire service says the death toll in the country's worst forest fires for decades has risen to 64

September 4

* An Iraqi appeals court upholds a death sentence imposed on Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as 'Chemical Ali,' according to the Iraqi TV station Al-Iraqiya

September 5

* Aeroflot's shareholders have approved a deal to buy 22 Airbus 350 and 22 Boeing 787 airliners

September 6

* Russian long-range Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic bombers begin patrolling the country's remote areas

* Italian opera legend Luciano Pavarotti dies at his villa in Modena at the age of 71, after battling cancer for over a year

* A Russian Proton-M booster rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite explodes shortly after lift-off

September 8

* The leaders of 21 nations participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum adopt a draft declaration on greenhouse gases, accepting for the first time concrete global goals to reduce CO2 emissions

September 11

* Russia tests a vacuum bomb that is the most powerful in the world

September 14

* President Vladimir Putin signs a decree to appoint Viktor Zubkov prime minister after he dismissed the government over growing ineffectiveness and the lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly to back his candidacy

September 16

* A passenger plane crash in Thailand kills some 90 people  

September 24

* Russian President Vladimir Putin announces Russia's new Cabinet, including new ministers of health, economics, and regional development

September 25

* Yasuo Fukuda is chosen as Japan's new prime minister by parliament's lower house

September 26

* Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi's first SuperJet 100 aircraft officially goes on public display

* The Prosecutor General's Office rules that family members of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II are not subject to rehabilitation

September 27

* Nine people are killed in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, in a crackdown by security forces during anti-government protests

* China completes the delivery of 50,000 metric tons of fuel oil to North Korea as part of a package of economic incentives in exchange for Pyongyang's denuclearization

September 28

* Serbia and its breakaway province of Kosovo hold the first round of their first direct talks with international mediators participating but fail to reach any agreement

September 30

* Early parliamentary elections designed to end a protracted political crisis fueled by rivalry between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych are held in Ukraine