Portal:Current events/2007 October 27

• At least 30 people are killed and 100 injured in flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC)
• California wildfires:
  • Some fires are reported in the Mexican state of Baja California, south of the U.S. border, but these are generally brought fairly swiftly under control. (CalFires.com)
  • The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger vows to "hunt down" those people responsible for starting some of the fires. (CNN)
• Yu Zhengsheng leaves his post as party chief of Hubei to replace newly promoted Politburo Standing Committee member Xi Jinping as Shanghai party chief. (Xinhua)

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