- Cyclone Favio makes landfall in Mozambique and is expected to worsen flooding in the Zambezi River valley.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair (pictured) announces that 1,600 British troops will be withdrawn from the multinational force in Iraq.
- In the Netherlands, the fourth Balkenende cabinet is sworn in by Queen Beatrix.
- Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi tenders his government's resignation after its foreign policy statement fails by two votes in the Senate.
- Sixty-eight people are killed in bombings on the Samjhauta Express train traveling between India and Pakistan.
- A Turkish court gives life sentences to seven al-Qaeda associates for their involvement in the 2003 Istanbul bombings.
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