Portal:Current events/2007 January 18

• Al Arabiyah reports that a fire at Kuwait's Shuaiba Port has stopped oil exports and refining in that country. (Dow Jones via NASDAQ)
• French newspaper Le Monde reports that Spanish cyclist Óscar Pereiro has produced two positive urine samples for salbutamol during the 2006 Tour de France. Pereiro had finished second in the Tour. The contested winner, Floyd Landis, had tested positive for testosterone during the Tour. (Le Monde)
• Two killed in Jumeirah Lake Towers fire in Dubai. (BBC)
• The European windstorm Kyrill sweeps across Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany, killing at least nine in Britain and three in the Netherlands. A container ship has to be abandoned in the English channel because of the wind. British and French rescue services pick up 26 crew members. (BBC News)
• Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki suggests that if the United States better armed the Iraqi armed forces, they would be able to dramatically draw back U.S. troops "in three to six months". (BBC)
• Western U.S. Freeze of 2007:
  • 65 deaths have been attributed to blizzards, sleet and freezing rain since Friday (January 12) in nine U.S. states, including 23 in Oklahoma and 10 in Texas. (CNN)
  • Interstate 10 in Texas and Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles, California, remain closed due to snow and ice. (CNN)
  • California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asks for his state to be declared a federal disaster area after agricultural damage is estimated over $1 billion USD. (CNN)
  • Snow is recorded at Los Angeles International Airport for the first time since 1962. (KNBC)

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