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class="external text" href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/233443/1/.html">(Channel News Asia)</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Super_bug_(bacteria)" class="mw-redirect" title="Super bug (bacteria)">superbug</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Clostridium_difficile_(bacteria)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clostridium difficile (bacteria)">Clostridium difficile</a></i>, is said to have killed at least 49 people at hospitals in <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, according to a <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Service</a> investigation. Another 29 similar cases are being investigated by <a href="/wiki/Coroner" title="Coroner">coroners</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/5396800.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The last <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> troops leave <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a> in accordance with <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1701" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701">UN Resolution 1701</a>, two months after <a href="/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict">occupying the territory</a>. <a href="/wiki/UNIFIL" class="mw-redirect" title="UNIFIL">UNIFIL</a> officials, however, claim that they still occupy the border village of <a href="/wiki/Ghajar" title="Ghajar">Ghajar</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070216050529/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne">(Reuters)</a></li> <li>New laws against <a href="/wiki/Age_discrimination" class="mw-redirect" title="Age discrimination">age discrimination</a> in the workplace - officially titled the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 - come into force in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396252.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>In the Australian <a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">National Rugby League</a>'s <a href="/wiki/2006_NRL_Grand_Final" title="2006 NRL Grand Final">premiership-deciding game for season 2006</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Broncos" title="Brisbane Broncos">Brisbane Broncos</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Storm" title="Melbourne Storm">Melbourne Storm</a> by 15–8 to win its sixth premiership title. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/international_and_australian/5392958.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_02"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 2" id="2006_October_2" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 2, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-02</span>)</span> (Monday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_2&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_2&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_2&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>'s Foreign Minister, <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a>, wins a crucial informal poll for the next <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Secretary-General">United Nations Secretary-General</a> with no opposition from any of the five veto-bearing <a href="/wiki/Security_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Security Council">Security Council</a> members. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061025044729/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews">(Reuters)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/President_of_Zambia" title="President of Zambia">President</a>, <a href="/wiki/Levy_Mwanawasa" title="Levy Mwanawasa">Levy Mwanawasa</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Zambian_presidential_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Zambian presidential election, 2006">re-elected</a>, according to the Zambian Electoral Commission. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5400840.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>At least five pupils, a teacher's aide, and a gunman are dead after an <a href="/wiki/West_Nickel_Mines_School_shooting" title="West Nickel Mines School shooting">Amish school shooting</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nickel_Mines,_Pennsylvania" title="Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania">Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. Some reports have the number of dead at six. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6120379,00.html">(The Guardian)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2517550">(ABC)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/02/amish.shooting/index.html">(CNN)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5400570.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Kom%C5%A1i%C4%87" title="Željko Komšić">Željko Komšić</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neboj%C5%A1a_Radmanovi%C4%87" title="Nebojša Radmanović">Nebojša Radmanović</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haris_Silajd%C5%BEi%C4%87" title="Haris Silajdžić">Haris Silajdžić</a> are elected new members of the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>, the country's collective head of state. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2516517">(ABC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia-Russia_spying_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia-Russia spying dispute">Georgia-Russia spying dispute</a>: <ul><li>Four <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> officers arrested as spies in Georgia leave for Moscow after being released. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5398384.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> suspends all transport and postal links with <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/world/europe/03russia.html?_r=1&ref=asia&oref=slogin">(The New York Times)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Two schools in the <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Valley" title="Las Vegas Valley">Las Vegas Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, are locked down, after a former student reportedly brought an <a href="/wiki/AK-47" title="AK-47">AK-47</a> or other automatic weapons to school. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_schools_on_lockdown" class="extiw" title="n:Las Vegas schools on lockdown">(Wikinews)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5484603">(KVBC)</a></li> <li>Casino company <a href="/wiki/Harrah%27s_Entertainment" title="Harrah's Entertainment">Harrah's Entertainment</a> receives an $81-per-share cash offer from private-equity firms Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group.</li> <li>Former <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">Rep.</a> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley" title="Mark Foley">Mark Foley</a>, under <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> investigation for <a href="/wiki/E-mail" class="mw-redirect" title="E-mail">e-mail</a> exchanges with teenage <a href="/wiki/Congressional_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Congressional page">congressional pages</a>, has checked himself into rehabilitation facility for <a href="/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">alcoholism</a> treatment.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Fire" title="Andrew Fire">Andrew Fire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Craig_Mello" title="Craig Mello">Craig Mello</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine">Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine</a> for their work in controlling the activity of <a href="/wiki/Gene" title="Gene">genes</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2515870&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(ABC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Meteorological_Service_of_Canada" title="Meteorological Service of Canada">Meteorological Service</a> issues a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_storm_warning" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropical storm warning">tropical storm warning</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Avalon_Peninsula" title="Avalon Peninsula">Avalon Peninsula</a> in southeastern <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a>, including the cities of <a href="/wiki/Cape_Race" title="Cape Race">Cape Race</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._John%27s,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador">St John's</a>, due to Hurricane Isaac. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/10/02/tropical.weather.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_03"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 3" id="2006_October_3" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 3, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-03</span>)</span> (Tuesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_3&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_3&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_3&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Khristenko" title="Viktor Khristenko">Viktor Khristenko</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> Industry and Energy Minister, and Baktykozha Izmukhambetov, the <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakh</a> Energy and Mineral Resources' Minister, sign an intergovernmental agreement creating a joint venture to process gas from the <a href="/wiki/Karachaganak_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Karachaganak field">Karachaganak field</a> in West Kazakhstan. <a href="/wiki/Russian_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian President">Russian President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> said the agreement was the solution to "the energy problems of key partners, including those in Western Europe." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.interfax.com/5/199018/news.aspx">(Interfax)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board" title="National Labor Relations Board">National Labor Relations Board</a> determines that workers normally assigned as shift supervisors should not be covered by a federal law ensuring a right to union membership. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4232844.html">(AP via Houston Chronicle)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EADS" class="mw-redirect" title="EADS">EADS</a> delays delivery of the <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A380" title="Airbus A380">Airbus A380</a> jet for the third time in 16 months, due to wiring problems, with the first plane now expected in late 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=a1W.kcJTBF5Y">(Bloomberg)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> announces plans to conduct a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear test">nuclear test</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5402018.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> scientists <a href="/wiki/John_C._Mather" title="John C. Mather">John C. Mather</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Smoot" title="George Smoot">George Smoot</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_physics" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize in physics">Nobel Prize in physics</a> for research into cosmic <a href="/wiki/Microwave" title="Microwave">microwave</a> background <a href="/wiki/Radiation" title="Radiation">radiation</a> that helps explain the origins of <a href="/wiki/Galaxy" title="Galaxy">galaxies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aQwqjcSQZSWA&refer=europe">(Bloomberg)</a></li> <li>Deposed <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Thailand" title="Prime Minister of Thailand">Prime Minister of Thailand</a> <a href="/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra" title="Thaksin Shinawatra">Thaksin Shinawatra</a> has resigned as head of his <a href="/wiki/Thai_Rak_Thai" class="mw-redirect" title="Thai Rak Thai">Thai Rak Thai</a> party due to "changing circumstances". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070518134541/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews">(Reuters)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_1476" title="Turkish Airlines Flight 1476">Turkish Airlines Flight 1476</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Airlines" title="Turkish Airlines">Turkish Airlines</a> plane carrying 113 people from <a href="/wiki/Tirana" title="Tirana">Tirana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> to <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, was <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking" title="Aircraft hijacking">hijacked</a>, but lands at Italy's <a href="/wiki/Brindisi_Airport" title="Brindisi Airport">Brindisi Airport</a>. The hijackers surrendered and were arrested by Italian police. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217398,00.html">(Fox News)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_04"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 4" id="2006_October_4" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 4, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-04</span>)</span> (Wednesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_4&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_4&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_4&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> reaches another record high close, rising above 11,850 for the first time. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/04/business/main2060310.shtml">(CBS News)</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Sixth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit">Appeals Court</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati, Ohio</a> rules that the U.S. government can continue to use its warrantless domestic <a href="/wiki/Telephone_tapping" class="mw-redirect" title="Telephone tapping">wiretap</a> program pending the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a>'s appeal of a federal judge's ruling outlawing the program. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005124301/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews">(Reuters)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration">Food and Drug Administration</a> searches two <a href="/wiki/Spinach" title="Spinach">spinach</a> packaging companies in the <a href="/wiki/Salinas_Valley" title="Salinas Valley">Salinas Valley</a> in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> for evidence related to a recent <a href="/wiki/2006_North_American_E._coli_outbreak" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 North American E. coli outbreak">outbreak</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Escherichia_coli" title="Escherichia coli">E. coli</a></i> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> that made 200 people sick. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/04/BAGH5LI2OC15.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea">(San Francisco Chronicle)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> imposes an anti-dumping tariff on leather shoe imports from the Far East - 16.5% on imports from <a href="/wiki/Peoples%27_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Peoples' Republic of China">China</a> and 10% on imports from <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>. China supplies about 1.25 billion pairs of shoes to the EU each year. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://euobserver.com/9/22568">(EUobserver.com)</a></li> <li>American <a href="/wiki/Roger_Kornberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger Kornberg">Roger Kornberg</a> wins the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> for describing the essential process of <a href="/wiki/Gene" title="Gene">gene</a> copying in <a href="/wiki/Cell_(biology)" title="Cell (biology)">cells</a>, research that can give insight into illnesses such as <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heart_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart disease">heart disease</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/10/04/kornberg_wins_2006_nobel_prize_for_chemistry">(Boston Globe)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal" title="Mark Foley scandal">Mark Foley scandal</a>: <ul><li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Drudge_Report" title="Drudge Report">Drudge Report</a></i> alleges that one teen with whom Mark Foley engaged in cybersex during a House vote was 18 years old at the time of the communications. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061012133710/http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmfa.htm">(<i>Drudge Report</i>)</a></li> <li>A former <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Page" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House of Representatives Page">page</a> states that he was warned of <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley" title="Mark Foley">Representative Foley's</a> advances by a departing page in <a href="/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a>. Among his claims are that Foley made him uncomfortable and offered to buy him ice cream on several occasions. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0610040086oct04,1,3952805.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed">(Chicago Tribune)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">House Speaker</a> <a href="/wiki/J._Dennis_Hastert" class="mw-redirect" title="J. Dennis Hastert">J. Dennis Hastert</a> states that he will not resign from his position in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal" title="Mark Foley scandal">scandal</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070327064629/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/82527,CST-NWS-pageside04.article">(Chicago Sun-Times)</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_05"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 5" id="2006_October_5" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 5, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-05</span>)</span> (Thursday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_5&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_5&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_5&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> closes at a record high for the third day in a row. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061024071855/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1756737.htm">(ABC News Australia Online)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> authorities uncover 51 skeletons from a <a href="/wiki/Mass_grave" title="Mass grave">mass grave</a> at the village of Menden-Barge in the <a href="/wiki/Sauerland" title="Sauerland">Sauerland</a> region of the country, thought to be remains of victims of <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> atrocities during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5410834.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal" title="Mark Foley scandal">Mark Foley scandal</a> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Standards_of_Official_Conduct" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct">House Ethics Committee</a> issued four dozen subpoenas to members of Congress and aides to discover who was aware of explicit exchanges between former representative <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley" title="Mark Foley">Mark Foley</a> and underage Congressional pages. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://msnbc.msn.com/id/15145785/">(MSNBC)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Reports indicate that <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ayyub_al-Masri" title="Abu Ayyub al-Masri">Abu Ayyub al-Masri</a>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Abu_Hamza_al-Muhajir" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Hamza al-Muhajir">Abu Hamza al-Muhajir</a>, the leader of <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq" title="Al-Qaeda in Iraq">Al-Qaeda in Iraq</a> who succeeded <a href="/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi" title="Abu Musab al-Zarqawi">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi</a> after his death, may have been killed in <a href="/wiki/Haditha" title="Haditha">Haditha</a>. A body initially tentatively identified as his is undergoing DNA analysis but most government sources are skeptical. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/5408924.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/European_Central_Bank" title="European Central Bank">European Central Bank</a> raises its <a href="/wiki/Interest_rate" title="Interest rate">interest rate</a> from 3% to 3.25% representing the fifth rise in eleven months. The <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a> decides to leave interest rates in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> unchanged. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B3E569DC9%2D852B%2D4DE5%2D8C74%2DF29B15E07D11%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw&rss=1">(Marketwatch)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Daukoru" title="Edmund Daukoru">Edmund Daukoru</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigerian</a> <a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a> minister and president of the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_Petroleum_Exporting_Countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries">Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries</a> (OPEC) flags that the organization will hold an emergency meeting to cut output. The <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i> reports that OPEC has informally agreed to cut output 4% to defend the oil price. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2006-10-05-opec_x.htm?csp=34">(USA Today)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-Soviet">Post-Soviet</a> <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> holds the <a href="/wiki/Georgian_local_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian local elections, 2006">municipal elections</a> seen as a crucial test for the country’s current government amid the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Georgia-Russia_spying_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia-Russia spying dispute">tensions</a> with <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/05/europe/EU_POL_Georgia_Elections.php">(International Herald Tribune)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NTV_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="NTV Turkey">NTV</a> television in <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> reports that 260 Turkish soldiers will join the peacekeeping force in <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/10/05/report_turkey_to_deploy_troops_in_lebanon/">(The Boston Globe)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> expands its security mission to the whole of <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, taking command of more than 13,000 U.S. troops in the east of the country. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/nato.afghan.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest">(CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thai</a> authorities take steps to hold peace talks with two <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> insurgencies, the <a href="/wiki/Patani_United_Liberation_Organisation" title="Patani United Liberation Organisation">Patani United Liberation Organisation</a> (PULO) and <a href="/wiki/Bersatu_(separatist_organisation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bersatu (separatist organisation)">Bersatu</a>, who are fighting the Government in the <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>-majority southern provinces of <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20529226-1702,00.html?from=public_rss">(News Limited)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_of_England_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Court of Appeal of England and Wales">Court of Appeal of England and Wales</a> determines that a merchant ship, <a href="/wiki/SS_Storaa" title="SS Storaa">SS Storaa</a>, is eligible for consideration for protection as a <a href="/wiki/War_grave" title="War grave">war grave</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Protection_of_Military_Remains_Act_1986" title="Protection of Military Remains Act 1986">Protection of Military Remains Act 1986</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5409732.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_06"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 6" id="2006_October_6" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 6, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-06</span>)</span> (Friday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_6&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_6&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_6&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>President Bush has declared space to be essential to US defence in a new National Space Policy document. Not only has the United States declared that it has rights in space, but, if necessary, it will deny its adversaries access to space if those adversaries seek to impede those rights. The new policy was agreed upon in August but the document<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/18_10_06_usspace.pdf">[1]</a> was not released until 6 October. See Wikinews<a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_declares_vital_interest_in_space" class="extiw" title="n:US declares vital interest in space">n:US declares vital interest in space</a></li> <li>A truce is called in <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> after a <a href="/wiki/Dynamite" title="Dynamite">dynamite</a> battle between rival groups of tin miners kills 16 people in the department of <a href="/wiki/Oruro_Department" title="Oruro Department">Oruro</a>, with another 60 people injured. <a href="/wiki/President_of_Bolivia" title="President of Bolivia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Evo_Morales" title="Evo Morales">Evo Morales</a> sacks his mining minister for not anticipating the violence. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1757867.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li>Some 18,000 people are evacuated from the <a href="/wiki/Apex,_North_Carolina" title="Apex, North Carolina">Apex</a> area of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> and 13 are reported injured after a blast and fire at an <a href="/w/index.php?title=Environmental_Quality_Industrial_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Environmental Quality Industrial Services (page does not exist)">Environmental Quality Industrial Services</a> chemical plant. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/06/plant.fire/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>Negotiators from the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> reach a deal on sharing trans-Atlantic passenger data used in anti-terrorism investigations. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061025124308/http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1814583.ece">(The Independent)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a>'s Theological Commission are reviewing the teaching of <i><a href="/wiki/Limbus_patrum#The_Limbo_of_Children_(limbus_infantium)" class="mw-redirect" title="Limbus patrum">limbus infantium</a></i> (limbo for infants who died before being <a href="/wiki/Baptised#Catholic_baptism_and_salvation" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptised">baptised</a>) and may recommend to <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a> that it be amended. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5412166.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The new <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Swedish</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sweden" title="Prime Minister of Sweden">Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Reinfeldt" title="Fredrik Reinfeldt">Fredrik Reinfeldt</a>, presents his new <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Fredrik_Reinfeldt" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt">cabinet</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5413080.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Southeast_Asian_haze" title="2006 Southeast Asian haze">2006 Southeast Asian haze</a>: Smoke from <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fires</a> in western <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> causes air quality and visibility to plummet to unhealthy levels in neighboring <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/asia.fires.ap/index.html">(AP via CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> releases close-up photos taken by the <a href="/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter</a> of the planet <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> revealing its hidden, oceanic past. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2393113,00.html">(The Times (UK))</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_07"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 7" id="2006_October_7" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 7, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-07</span>)</span> (Saturday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_7&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_7&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_7&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea">New Guinea</a> volcano <a href="/wiki/Rabaul_caldera" title="Rabaul caldera">Rabaul caldera</a> erupts. Two hundred people are evacuated but favourable winds help protect nearby towns from the impact. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080420100334/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1758072.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> journalist <a href="/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya" title="Anna Politkovskaya">Anna Politkovskaya</a>, famous for her criticism of <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> and his government's actions in <a href="/wiki/Chechnya" title="Chechnya">Chechnya</a>, is found murdered in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11600925">(Interfax)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5416218.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>Sixty warning shots are fired by <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> soldiers at the <a href="/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone" title="Korean Demilitarized Zone">Korean Demilitarized Zone</a> after they observe five <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korean</a> soldiers crossing part of the boundary. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/07/nkorea.shotsfired.ap/index.html">(AP via CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_parliamentary_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Latvian parliamentary election, 2006">Latvian parliamentary election</a>: The governing coalition led by <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Latvia" title="Prime Minister of Latvia">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Aigars_Kalv%C4%ABtis" title="Aigars Kalvītis">Aigars Kalvītis</a> wins re-election, the first <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvian</a> administration to be re-elected since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5416778.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_08"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 8" id="2006_October_8" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 8, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-08</span>)</span> (Sunday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_8&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_8&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_8&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>The results of the <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> <a href="/wiki/Belgian_municipal_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgian municipal elections, 2006">municipal elections</a> show losses for the <a href="/wiki/Vlaamse_Liberalen_en_Democraten" class="mw-redirect" title="Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten">liberals</a> and progress for the <a href="/wiki/Christen-Democratisch_en_Vlaams" class="mw-redirect" title="Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams">conservatives</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vlaams_Belang" title="Vlaams Belang">nationalists</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/09/belgium.right.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>Iraq's Environmental Secretary claims that 11 police officers have died of <a href="/wiki/Food_poisoning" class="mw-redirect" title="Food poisoning">food poisoning</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Wasit_Governorate" title="Wasit Governorate">Wasit province</a> of that country. The <a href="/wiki/Governor" title="Governor">governor</a> of the Wasit province claims that no officers have died, but that several are in critical condition. It is unclear whether or not the poisonings were intentional. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_poisoning;_ylt=ApLAldX.T94nSvPD5NuCFMGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--">(Associated Press)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"><div id="2006_October_09"></div> <div role="region" aria-label="October 9" id="2006_October_9" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 9, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-09</span>)</span> (Monday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_9&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_9&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_9&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Islamic_Courts_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Islamic Courts Council">Supreme Islamic Courts Council</a> of <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> declare '<a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">jihad</a>' against <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> following the Ethiopian military incursions into <a href="/wiki/Bur_Haqaba" class="mw-redirect" title="Bur Haqaba">Bur Haqaba</a> close to the shared border. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L09256177">(Reuters)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6032907.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> lawmakers introduce a bill to criminalize <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Genocide">Armenian Genocide</a> denial. The legislation would imprison offenders for one year and fine them up to <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">€</a>45,000. <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> calls upon French legislators to vote against the bill. The Turkish Parliament is considering a bill that would criminalize denial of French <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> violations in <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061121020514/http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=145901">(TurkishPress)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> officially announces that they will buy video sharing website <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> for <a href="/wiki/USD" class="mw-redirect" title="USD">US$</a>1.65 billion. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6034577.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> is nominated to succeed <a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a> as the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Secretary-General">Secretary-General</a> in an affirmation vote by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">Security Council</a>. A confirmation vote by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">General Assembly</a> is expected within the next <a href="/wiki/Fortnight" title="Fortnight">fortnight</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/un.vote.reut/index.html">(Reuters via CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">2006 North Korean nuclear testing</a> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Korean_Central_News_Agency" title="Korean Central News Agency">Korean Central News Agency</a> of <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> reports that the nation has tested its first <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapon</a> in an underground facility at <a href="/wiki/Gilju" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilju">Gilju</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_Hamgyong" class="mw-redirect" title="North Hamgyong">North Hamgyong</a> province. This report was at least somewhat confirmed by a seismic event that was measured around the world. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/08/korea.nuclear.test.ap/index.html">(AP)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20548728-5006301,00.html">(Adelaide Now)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a> says it detected an <a href="/wiki/Earthquake" title="Earthquake">earthquake</a> of 4.2 in <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> suspected to be caused by the effects of the underground blast. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=52607">(AFP via ABS_CBN)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> expresses its "resolute opposition" to what it described as <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>'s "brazen" nuclear test. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070527011345/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20549542-23109,00.html">(The Australian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">United States President</a> <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>, <a href="/wiki/UK_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Prime Minister">UK Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> President <a href="/wiki/Roh_Moo-Hyun" class="mw-redirect" title="Roh Moo-Hyun">Roh Moo-Hyun</a>, are among world leaders to condemn North Korea's nuclear testing, calling it "provocative", "irresponsible" and "a serious threat to peace", respectively. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6034873.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Edmund_S._Phelps" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund S. Phelps">Edmund S. Phelps</a> wins the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences" title="Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences">Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences</a> for work on the trade-offs between inflation and unemployment. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2544473">(ABC News)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 10" id="2006_October_10" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 10, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-10</span>)</span> (Tuesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_10&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_10&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_10&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>A passenger bus plunges into a ravine near the city of <a href="/wiki/Chiantla" title="Chiantla">Chiantla</a> in northwestern <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, killing 42 people. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6035797.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BP" title="BP">BP</a> shuts down the <a href="/wiki/Prudhoe_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Prudhoe Bay">Prudhoe Bay</a> oil fields due to losing power as a result of high winds. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2549851&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(AP via ABC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>'s Supreme Leader <a href="/wiki/Ayatollah" title="Ayatollah">Ayatollah</a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Khamenei" title="Ali Khamenei">Ali Khamenei</a> states that the country would pursue its right to develop <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_technology" title="Nuclear technology">nuclear technology</a> and will not suspend <a href="/wiki/Uranium_enrichment" class="mw-redirect" title="Uranium enrichment">uranium enrichment</a> as the West demands, declaring: "Our policy is clear, progress with clear logic and insisting on the nation's right without any retreat." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061025044729/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews">(Reuters)</a></li> <li>A chartered <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Airways_Flight_670" title="Atlantic Airways Flight 670">Atlantic Airways Flight 670</a> skids off the runway at <a href="/wiki/Stord_Airport,_S%C3%B8rstokken" class="mw-redirect" title="Stord Airport, Sørstokken">Stord Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>, killing four people. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6036321.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_insurgency" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Iraq insurgency">Iraq insurgency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraqi</a> police announce they have found a total of 110 corpses at locations across <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> in the previous 48 hours, thought to be more victims of insurgent death squads. In addition, a bomb planted under a car explodes in the city's southern district of Doura, killing 10 people. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/10/iraq.main/index.html">(CNN)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061025044729/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews">(Reuters)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_military" class="mw-redirect" title="United States military">United States military</a> sources state that a total of 30 militants and 4 US soldiers have been killed since the weekend. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4801705.stm">(BBC)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061025044729/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews">(Reuters)</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)" title="Mortar (weapon)">mortar</a> fired by insurgents landed on an ammunition dump at <a href="/wiki/Camp_Falcon" class="mw-redirect" title="Camp Falcon">Camp Falcon</a> U.S. military base on the outskirts of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, causing a huge fire. At least 30 explosions were reported. There were no reported casualties. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070216050529/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne">(Reuters)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Six people die in a <a href="/wiki/2006_Central_Mindanao_bombings" title="2006 Central Mindanao bombings">bomb attack</a> on a festival in the town of <a href="/wiki/Makilala" title="Makilala">Makilala</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>. Two others are killed and four injured in a blast at a market in <a href="/wiki/Tacurong_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Tacurong City">Tacurong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat" title="Sultan Kudarat">Sultan Kudarat</a>. Officials blame Muslim extremist groups. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070311125310/http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061010/1/43yni.html">(AFP)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070311015146/http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2006/10/11/14.killed.24.wounded.in.bomb.attacks.html">(Sun Star)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6037828.stm">(BBC)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/10/philippines.bomb.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>A naval base and oil facility in <a href="/wiki/Bayelsa" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayelsa">Bayelsa</a> State, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>, are captured by armed attackers who are now thought to be holding 60 people hostage. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/10/nigeria.oil.unrest.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>Hundreds of thousands of people <a href="/wiki/Million_Voices_for_Chen_Shui-bian_to_step_down" class="mw-redirect" title="Million Voices for Chen Shui-bian to step down">made a protest</a> against <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Republic_of_China" title="President of the Republic of China">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Chen_Shui-bian" title="Chen Shui-bian">Chen Shui-bian</a> in <a href="/wiki/Taipei" title="Taipei">Taipei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, surrounding <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Building_(Taiwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidential Building (Taiwan)">Office of the President</a>, where Chen took part in ceremony marking <a href="/wiki/National_Day_of_the_Republic_of_China" title="National Day of the Republic of China">Double Tenth Day</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6036189.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 11" id="2006_October_11" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 11, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-11</span>)</span> (Wednesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_11&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_11&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_11&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>A small <a href="/wiki/October_11,_2006_New_York_City_plane_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="October 11, 2006 New York City plane crash">aircraft crashes</a> into a building at <a href="/wiki/524_East_72nd_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="524 East 72nd Street">524 East 72nd Street</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan Island">Manhattan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Upper_East_Side" title="Upper East Side">Upper East Side</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> killing 2 people. FBI states that there is so far no reason to suspect terrorism, and the alert level hasn't been raised. The plane was registered to New York Yankees pitcher <a href="/wiki/Cory_Lidle" title="Cory Lidle">Cory Lidle</a>. Lidle is reported to have been the pilot, and along with his flight instructor, was killed in the crash. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061011222107/http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_284145842.html">(CBS 2 New York)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/11/plane.crash.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nyregion/11wire-plane.html?hp&ex=1160625600&en=12537f67b1ec2ff5&ei=5094&partner=homepage">(The New York Times)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2621860">(ESPN)</a></li> <li>Minutes from the United States <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> meeting held on September 20 predict a "modestly better <a href="/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a> outlook" due to a softening economy and lower energy prices. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219897,00.html">(Fox News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>: <ul><li>An estimated 655,000 <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraqis</a> have died since <a href="/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> who might still be alive but for the US-led <a href="/wiki/Invasion" title="Invasion">invasion</a>, according to a survey by <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_Bloomberg_School_of_Public_Health" title="Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a>. The study is in dispute though since The Iraqi Ministry of Health places the death toll at 50,000. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6040054.stm">(BBC)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061011/iraq_deaths_061011/20061011?hub=World">(CTV News)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061013080542/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061011/iraq_deaths_061011/20061011?hub=World">Archived</a> 2006-10-13 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-10-11T123341Z_01_L11717456_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-DEATHS-COL.XML">(Reuters)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li></ul></li> <li>Twelve people have died following a <a href="/wiki/Train_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="Train crash">train crash</a> at <a href="/wiki/Zoufftgen" title="Zoufftgen">Zoufftgen</a> in north-east <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, near the <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a> border. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6040398.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">2006 North Korean nuclear testing</a> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korean</a> official stationed in <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a> tells the <a href="/wiki/Yonhap" class="mw-redirect" title="Yonhap">Yonhap</a> news agency that "If all out <a href="/wiki/Economic_sanctions" title="Economic sanctions">sanctions</a> are implemented, we will take it as a declaration of war". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20562334-1702,00.html?from=public_rss">(News Limited)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Yong-nam" title="Kim Yong-nam">Kim Yong-nam</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>'s number two leader, tells the <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> news agency <a href="/wiki/Kyodo" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyodo">Kyodo</a> that North Korea will have no choice but to take physical steps if the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> continues to adopt a hostile attitude towards it. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071210033043/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1762667.htm">(AFP via ABC Australia)</a></li></ul></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> report declares that abuse of children is "widespread and tolerated" in many parts of the world. A separate report by charity <a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children" title="Save the Children">Save the Children</a> states that more than a million children around the world are in prison. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6039178.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Eureka_Tower" title="Eureka Tower">Eureka Tower</a> residential building is officially opened. At 297.5m (976ft), the structure is the second tallest <a href="/wiki/Skyscraper" title="Skyscraper">skyscraper</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Hemisphere" title="Southern Hemisphere">Southern Hemisphere</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_residential_buildings" title="List of tallest residential buildings">second tallest</a> residential building in the world.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a> Gyro Failures may spell doom if focus of next <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Shuttle</a> mission is not changed.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/061010cmg/">[2]</a></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, It is officially declared "Final Fantasy XII" day. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://au.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/finalfantasy12/news.html?sid=6157536">(Gamespot)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 12" id="2006_October_12" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 12, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-12</span>)</span> (Thursday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_12&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_12&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_12&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> finds that <a href="/wiki/Economic_growth" title="Economic growth">economic growth</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> is "moderate or mixed" with "widespread cooling" in the <a href="/wiki/Real_estate_economics" title="Real estate economics">housing market</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220278,00.html">(Fox News)</a></li> <li>Members of the <a href="/wiki/Janjaweed" title="Janjaweed">Janjaweed</a> <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> attack <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudanese</a> refugees from the <a href="/wiki/Darfur" title="Darfur">Darfur</a> region in eastern <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6042096.stm">(BBC)</a>.</li> <li>Nine <a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a> have been killed during an <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> raid in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>, reports say. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6043042.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of France">French parliament</a> adopts a bill criminalizing <a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a> denial, despite significant lobbying efforts by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Turkey" title="Government of Turkey">Government of Turkey</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6043730.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The New Zealand Auditor-General's report into <a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_election_funding_controversy" title="2005 New Zealand election funding controversy">2005 election funding</a> is released. <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_dollar" title="New Zealand dollar">NZ$</a>1.17 million dollars was unlawfully spent during the election by seven parties, more than half of it by <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a>. Labour immediately promises to repay the money. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10405610">(NZ Herald)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_insurgency" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Iraq insurgency">Iraq insurgency</a>: <ul><li>A gun attack on the office of a satellite TV station in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> kills 11 people. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6043158.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dannatt,_Baron_Dannatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt">Richard Dannatt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_General_Staff_(United_Kingdom)" title="Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)">Chief of the General Staff</a> and head of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>, gives an interview stating that <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> forces should "get out some time soon" from <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> as their presence "exacerbates the security problems". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6046332.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Workers begin demolishing the one-room <a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Amish</a> schoolhouse in <a href="/wiki/Nickel_Mines,_Pennsylvania" title="Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania">Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania</a> where five girls were shot to death and five others were injured. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/10/12/ap3085378.html">(Forbes)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkish</a> writer <a href="/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk" title="Orhan Pamuk">Orhan Pamuk</a>, whose novels discover "new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures", wins the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200315.html">(The Washington Post)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121024194550/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200315.html">Archived</a> 2012-10-24 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 13" id="2006_October_13" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 13, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-13</span>)</span> (Friday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_13&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_13&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_13&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>Record Snowfall in <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a> and surrounding metro area leaves up to two feet of heavy wet snow, three people dead, damaged trees, and over 400,000 residents without power. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.buffalonews.com">[3]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharp_Corporation" title="Sharp Corporation">Sharp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> begin to recall <a href="/wiki/Laptop" title="Laptop">laptop</a> <a href="/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithium ion battery">Lithium ion batteries</a> made by <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/4256981.html">(Associated Press via Houston Chronicle)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Kramnik" title="Vladimir Kramnik">Vladimir Kramnik</a> beats <a href="/wiki/Veselin_Topalov" title="Veselin Topalov">Veselin Topalov</a> in a <a href="/wiki/FIDE_World_Chess_Championship_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="FIDE World Chess Championship 2006">World Chess Championship reunification match</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/crosswords/chess/13cnd-chess.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1160798400&en=7596b78508c4dbf2&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin">(NY Times)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cellulose_plant_conflict_between_Argentina_and_Uruguay" class="mw-redirect" title="Cellulose plant conflict between Argentina and Uruguay">Cellulose plant conflict</a>: Demonstrators again block border crossings between <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a> after the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> announces its decision to continue funding the disputed <a href="/wiki/Paper_mill" title="Paper mill">paper mills</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6050542.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abimael_Guzm%C3%A1n" title="Abimael Guzmán">Abimael Guzmán</a>, leader of <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Sendero_Luminoso" class="mw-redirect" title="Sendero Luminoso">Sendero Luminoso</a></i> guerrillas, is sentenced to life imprisonment at the conclusion of his retrial on <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a> charges. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4283902.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Boulus_Iskander&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boulus Iskander (page does not exist)">Boulus Iskander</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraqi</a> priest of the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church">Syriac Orthodox Church</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Kidnap" class="mw-redirect" title="Kidnap">kidnapped</a> and <a href="/wiki/Decapitation" title="Decapitation">beheaded</a> by <a href="/wiki/Islamist_terrorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamist terrorist">Islamist terrorists</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061017064041/http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061013-100904-9498r">(MET)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aciprensa.com/noticia.php?n=14463">(ACI)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> is elected to be the eighth <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Secretary-General">Secretary-General</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, to succeed <a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a> in January 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6049890.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a> bans <a href="/wiki/Fixed-wing_aircraft" title="Fixed-wing aircraft">fixed-wing aircraft</a> from the <a href="/wiki/East_River" title="East River">East River</a> corridor in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> unless they are in contact with <a href="/wiki/Air_traffic_control" title="Air traffic control">air traffic control</a>. The change follows a crash of a plane into an apartment building earlier in the week. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927182223/http://cbs2.com/national/topstories_story_286183730.html">(AP via CBS)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wal-Mart" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart">Wal-Mart</a> is ordered to pay $78 million in compensation to current and former employees for breaking labor laws in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> by forcing its employees to work through rest breaks and off clock. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2006-10-13-walmart-labor-violations_x.htm?csp=34">(USA Today)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/US" class="mw-redirect" title="US">US</a> government has rebuffed <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a> calls to close its controversial detention centre at <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Guantanamo Bay detainment camp">Guantánamo Bay</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6046684.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>: <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Coroner" title="Coroner">coroner</a> has recorded a verdict of <a href="/wiki/Unlawful_killing" title="Unlawful killing">unlawful killing</a> on <a href="/wiki/ITN" title="ITN">ITN</a> reporter <a href="/wiki/Terry_Lloyd" title="Terry Lloyd">Terry Lloyd</a>, who was shot dead by <a href="/wiki/US" class="mw-redirect" title="US">US</a> forces in southern <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> in March 2003. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6046950.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> has said he agrees with "every word" the new head of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> said on the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraq war">Iraq war</a> that UK troops "exacerbated" security problems and should withdraw "sometime soon". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6049126.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Two people protesting the impeachment of <a href="/wiki/Plateau_State" title="Plateau State">Plateau State</a> governor <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Dariye" title="Joshua Dariye">Joshua Dariye</a> are killed by riot police in <a href="/wiki/Jos" title="Jos">Jos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6048286.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/British_government" class="mw-redirect" title="British government">British</a> and <a href="/wiki/Irish_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish government">Irish</a> governments set a provisional date of 26 March 2007 for restoring <a href="/wiki/Devolution" title="Devolution">devolution</a> to <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> through the <a href="/wiki/St_Andrews_Agreement" title="St Andrews Agreement">St Andrews Agreement</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6046302.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus" title="Muhammad Yunus">Muhammad Yunus</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Grameen_Bank" title="Grameen Bank">Grameen Bank</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> for working to advance economic and social development among the poor. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a85ws9TxWiUA">(Bloomberg)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/index.html">(Nobel Foundation)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">2006 North Korean nuclear test</a> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> is encouraging a vote on a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> resolution, which currently would impose an arms embargo and freezing of <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korean</a> funds connected to <a href="/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="North Korea and weapons of mass destruction">North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs</a>, despite opposition from the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a>, which has <a href="/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">veto</a> power. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070331061726/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews">(Reuters)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Veterinarians are reported to use <a href="/wiki/Vasectomy" title="Vasectomy">vasectomies</a> to control <a href="/wiki/Elephant" title="Elephant">elephant</a> overpopulation in Africa. At Kruger National Park, their numbers have doubled in the last decade. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/10/14/news/inland/22_24_5210_13_06.txt">(North County Times)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 14" id="2006_October_14" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 14, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-14</span>)</span> (Saturday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_14&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_14&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_14&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>Six <a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a> from the armed wing of the militant group <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> have been killed in an <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> incursion into the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>, Palestinian officials say. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6050266.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>Thousands of people have been attending mass ceremonies in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> at which hundreds of low-caste <a href="/wiki/Hindus" title="Hindus">Hindus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dalits" class="mw-redirect" title="Dalits">Dalits</a>) converted to <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6050408.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">2006 North Korean nuclear testing</a> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a> adopts <a href="/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_1718" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security Council Resolution 1718">Resolution 1718</a>, imposing sanctions on <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> in response to its <a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">recent nuclear test</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6051704.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>'s ambassador to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pak_Kil-yon" title="Pak Kil-yon">Pak Kil-yon</a>, says <a href="/wiki/Pyongyang" title="Pyongyang">Pyongyang</a> "totally rejects" <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1718" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718">United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718</a> sanctioning his country, calling the measure "gangster-like". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kbcitv.com/x51828.xml?URL=http://10.56.1.26/APWIREFEED/d8koj2p00.xml&NewsSection=BreakingNewsHeadlines">(AP via KCBI)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> says the <a href="/wiki/UN_Security_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security Council">UN Security Council</a> has taken "swift and tough" action and sent a clear message to <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> about its <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear weapons">nuclear weapons</a> program.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UN_Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Secretary-General">UN Secretary-General</a> Designate <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> says the vote represents a "strong and clear message" and promises, if necessary, to visit <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> to discuss the situation. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_6050000/newsid_6052300/bb_rm_6052304.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></li> <li>A re-enactment of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings" title="Battle of Hastings">Battle of Hastings</a> takes place in <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a>, <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a> to mark the 940th anniversary of the event which saw <a href="/wiki/William_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="William I of England">William</a> of <a href="/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a>'s forces defeat the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Saxon</a> army of <a href="/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" title="Harold Godwinson">King Harold II</a>, and began the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest">Norman conquest</a> of <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6047026.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Borelius" title="Maria Borelius">Maria Borelius</a>, Minister for Foreign Trade in the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Fredrik_Reinfeldt" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt">Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>, resigns after one week in office following allegations of tax evasion. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6051220.stm">(BBC)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/14/sweden.minister.reut/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelsea_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="Chelsea FC">Chelsea FC</a> goalkeepers <a href="/wiki/Petr_%C4%8Cech" title="Petr Čech">Petr Čech</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Cudicini" title="Carlo Cudicini">Carlo Cudicini</a> both suffered serious injuries in a game against <a href="/wiki/Reading_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="Reading FC">Reading FC</a>. Cech suffered a <a href="/wiki/Skull_fracture" title="Skull fracture">depressed fracture of the skull</a> after colliding with Reading midfielder <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Hunt_(footballer_born_1981)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Hunt (footballer born 1981)">Stephen Hunt</a>. The injury kept him out of action until January 20, 2007. <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Cudicini" title="Carlo Cudicini">Cudicini</a> suffered <a href="/wiki/Concussion" title="Concussion">concussion</a> after colliding with Reading defender <a href="/wiki/Ibrahima_Sonko" title="Ibrahima Sonko">Ibrahima Sonko</a> as the ball curled in from a corner. <a href="/wiki/John_Terry" title="John Terry">John Terry</a> took the position as goalkeeper for the remainder of the game.</li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 15" id="2006_October_15" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 15, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-15</span>)</span> (Sunday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_15&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_15&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_15&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ecuadorian_general_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecuadorian general election, 2006">presidential election</a> goes to a second-round run-off between <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Correa" title="Rafael Correa">Rafael Correa</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Noboa" title="Álvaro Noboa">Álvaro Noboa</a>, to be held on <a href="/wiki/26_November" class="mw-redirect" title="26 November">26 November</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6052370.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Hawaii_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Hawaii earthquake">Hawaii earthquake</a>: A 6.7-<a href="/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">magnitude</a> <a href="/wiki/Earthquake" title="Earthquake">earthquake</a> and a series of aftershocks hit the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> at 7:07am local time, with an <a href="/wiki/Epicentre" class="mw-redirect" title="Epicentre">epicentre</a> 9 miles (14 km) NNW of <a href="/wiki/Kalaoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalaoa">Kalaoa</a>. 95% of power was lost throughout the state. Widespread structural damage on <a href="/wiki/Hawaii_(island)" title="Hawaii (island)">the Big Island</a> is being reported, but no major injuries and no fatalities as of yet. Airports are only accepting incoming flights. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/15/hawaii.quake.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/ustwbh.php">(USGS)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> police recommend charging <a href="/wiki/President_of_Israel" title="President of Israel">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Moshe_Katsav" title="Moshe Katsav">Moshe Katsav</a> with <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sexual_assault" title="Sexual assault">sexual assault</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fraud" title="Fraud">fraud</a>. The final decision on bringing charges is up to Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Meni_Mazuz" class="mw-redirect" title="Meni Mazuz">Meni Mazuz</a>. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500301.html">The Washington Post</a>)</li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 16" id="2006_October_16" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 16, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-16</span>)</span> (Monday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_16&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_16&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_16&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_Nations_Security_Council_election" title="2006 United Nations Security Council election">UN Security Council election</a>: The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/UNGA" class="mw-redirect" title="UNGA">General Assembly</a> elects <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> to two-year terms on the <a href="/wiki/UNSC" class="mw-redirect" title="UNSC">Security Council</a>, commencing 1 January 2007. The fifth seat remains deadlocked after ten rounds of voting between <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> and <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> and may be thrown open to other candidates from <a href="/wiki/Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean" title="Latin America and the Caribbean">Latin America and the Caribbean</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6053984.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Secretary-General">United Nations Secretary-General</a> <a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a> condemns movement by <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a> of 1,500 troops and 14 tanks into the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Mission_in_Ethiopia_and_Eritrea" title="United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea">UNMEE</a>-monitored <a href="/w/index.php?title=Temporary_Security_Zone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Temporary Security Zone (page does not exist)">Temporary Security Zone</a> with <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> as a "major breach" of the ceasefire agreement that ended the <a href="/wiki/Eritrean-Ethiopian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Eritrean-Ethiopian War">Eritrean-Ethiopian War</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2573493&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(ABC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">2006 North Korean nuclear test</a>: The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> confirms that <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> conducted a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear test">nuclear test</a> on October 9, 2006. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,221182,00.html">(FOX News)</a></li> <li>The government of <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(Sudan)" title="Eastern Front (Sudan)">Eastern Front</a> rebels sign a <a href="/wiki/Peace_treaty" title="Peace treaty">peace treaty</a> in <a href="/wiki/Asmara" title="Asmara">Asmara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55962">(IRIN)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Industrial_and_Commercial_Bank_of_China" title="Industrial and Commercial Bank of China">Industrial and Commercial Bank of China</a> starts its dual <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a> (IPO) in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Stock_Exchange" title="Hong Kong Stock Exchange">Hong Kong Stock Exchange</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Stock_Exchange" title="Shanghai Stock Exchange">Shanghai Stock Exchange</a>, in what would be the world's largest ever IPO. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/16/business/AS_FIN_China_ICBC.php">(AP via International Herald Tribune)</a></li> <li>Suspected <a href="/wiki/LTTE" class="mw-redirect" title="LTTE">Tamil Tiger</a> rebels detonate a truck packed with explosives amongst a convoy of buses carrying <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Navy">Sri Lankan Navy</a> personnel in the country's northeast. Approximately 102 people are killed, and 150 people are wounded. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061016/ts_afp/srilankaunrest_061016140027">(AFP via Yahoo! News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Swedish</a> Minister for Culture <a href="/wiki/Cecilia_Steg%C3%B6_Chil%C3%B2" title="Cecilia Stegö Chilò">Cecilia Stegö Chilò</a> resigns after 11 days in office, the second resignation within the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Fredrik_Reinfeldt" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt">Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6054814.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The government of <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> will not appeal a court ruling striking down the territory's <a href="/wiki/Sodomy_law" title="Sodomy law">sodomy law</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061019013529/http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/10/101606hongKong.htm">(365gay.com)</a></li> <li>American and Russian scientists announce the discovery of a new <a href="/wiki/Chemical_element" title="Chemical element">chemical element</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Atomic_number" title="Atomic number">atomic number</a> 118, <a href="/wiki/Systematic_element_name" title="Systematic element name">temporarily designated</a> as <a href="/wiki/Ununoctium" class="mw-redirect" title="Ununoctium">Ununoctium</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2574354">(ABC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzbek_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Uzbek President">Uzbek President</a> <a href="/wiki/Islam_Karimov" title="Islam Karimov">Islam Karimov</a> fires Saidullo Begaliev, Governor of <a href="/wiki/Andijan_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Andijan Province">Andijan</a>, for "short-sighted policies" and "lack of attention to the people's needs" that led to the <a href="/wiki/Andijan_massacre" title="Andijan massacre">Andijan massacre</a> in 2005. Karimov appoints Ahmad Usmonov as Begaliev's replacement. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/c1119594-cdda-4dfc-a1db-a4c6d3c161f1.html">(RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 17" id="2006_October_17" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 17, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-17</span>)</span> (Tuesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_17&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_17&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_17&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>: The <a href="/wiki/United_States_military" class="mw-redirect" title="United States military">United States military</a> in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> says a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">marine</a> and nine soldiers have been killed in Iraq, including four in a roadside bombing near <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6061488.stm">(BBC NEWS)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_Nations_Security_Council_election" title="2006 United Nations Security Council election">UN Security Council election</a>: The contest between <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> and <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> for a seat on the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/UNSC" class="mw-redirect" title="UNSC">Security Council</a> remains stalemated after a second day of voting. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6059990.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States" title="Demographics of the United States">population of the United States</a> reaches 300 million people. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/17/300.million.over/index.html">(CNN)</a> <ul><li>Married couples are now in the minority of the nation. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6284154">(NPR: Talk of the Nation)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> says the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> effectively declared war on the country when it imposed sanctions through <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1718" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718">United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718</a> in response to <a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">North Korea's nuclear test</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070311123817/http://cbs3.com/national/topstories_story_290022639.html">(AP via CBS)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">military of Fiji</a> issues an ultimatum to the government to drop legislation which would give an amnesty to the leaders of the <a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">2000 coup</a>, or resign. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/fiji-military-to-government-resign-or-else/2006/10/17/1160850913127.html">(SMH)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whaling_in_Iceland" title="Whaling in Iceland">Whaling in Iceland</a> is to resume, in contravention of a 20-year <a href="/wiki/Moratorium_(law)" title="Moratorium (law)">moratorium</a> passed by the <a href="/wiki/International_Whaling_Commission" title="International Whaling Commission">International Whaling Commission</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6059564.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapper" class="mw-redirect" title="Rapper">Rapper</a> <a href="/wiki/Fabolous" title="Fabolous">Fabolous</a> is shot at a <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> parking garage, spurring a sequence of events that left him both hospitalized in stable condition and under arrest.</li> <li>Two <a href="/wiki/Rome_Metro" title="Rome Metro">metro</a> trains <a href="/wiki/2006_Rome_metro_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Rome metro crash">collide</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, killing at least two people and injuring about 120 others. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6057876.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>It is reported that former <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Blunkett" title="David Blunkett">David Blunkett</a> ordered prison staff to machine gun prisoners during a 2002 riot regardless of loss of life. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6057528.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">United States Secretary of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a> arrives in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> for talks with <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> officials amid fears <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> could be readying for a second <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear test">nuclear test</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-10-18-rice-japan_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA">(USA Today)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Tiger" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil Tiger">Tamil Tiger</a> rebels are suspected to be responsible for attacks on a <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lankan</a> navy base and an adjoining port in the southern city of <a href="/wiki/Galle" title="Galle">Galle</a>, police and military officers claim. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/17/sri.lanka.galle.reut/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chilean</a> police detain 366 high school student protestors in <a href="/wiki/Santiago,_Chile" class="mw-redirect" title="Santiago, Chile">Santiago</a>, and use tear gas and water cannons to disperse their one day strike which called on the government to reform the education law, originally enacted under <a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Augusto Pinochet</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070312032230/http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1212504.php/Chilean_police_detain_366_demonstrating_students">(Deutsche Presse-Agentur)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> Corporation released version 7 of its <a href="/wiki/Internet_Explorer" title="Internet Explorer">Internet Explorer</a> <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">internet</a> <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">browser</a> <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a>.</li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 19" id="2006_October_19" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 19, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-19</span>)</span> (Thursday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" 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class="mw-redirect" title="Death penalty">death sentence</a> over the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in <a href="/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a> around <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/world/middleeast/19citizen_wire.html">(AP via New York Times)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> Maj. Gen. <a href="/wiki/William_B._Caldwell_IV" title="William B. Caldwell IV">William B. Caldwell IV</a> states that <a href="/wiki/Operation_Together_Forward" title="Operation Together Forward">Operation Together Forward</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_coalition_counter-insurgency_operations" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi coalition counter-insurgency operations">coalition operation</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(Iraq_War)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)">Iraqi insurgency</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, has not met expectations. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101900891.html">(Washington Post)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tan_D._Nguyen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tan D. Nguyen (page does not exist)">Tan D. Nguyen</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party of the United States">Republican</a> candidate for <a href="/wiki/California%27s_47th_congressional_district" title="California's 47th congressional district">California's 47th congressional district</a> in <a href="/wiki/Orange_County,_California" title="Orange County, California">Orange County</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, denies authorizing a letter warning <a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a> immigrants that they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a mailing that prompted an investigation by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_California" title="Government of California">state government</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/19/politics/main2108717.shtml">(CBS News)</a></li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Uzbekistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Uzbekistan">Uzbek military</a> <a href="/wiki/Antonov_An-2" title="Antonov An-2">Antonov An-2</a> aircraft crashes near <a href="/wiki/Tashkent" title="Tashkent">Tashkent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>, killing all of the 15 people on board. The Uzbek Emergency Ministry says the pilots lost control of the plane while trying to land. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6067436.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>Scientists at <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a> have created a device out of <a href="/wiki/Metamaterials" class="mw-redirect" title="Metamaterials">metamaterials</a> that makes objects harder to detect at microwave frequencies. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061019/sc_space/scientistscreatecloakofpartialinvisibility">(LiveScience)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> index closes at a record high just above 12,000 points in today's trading, as investors welcome the latest batch of corporate earnings. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070527105229/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20613890-1702,00.html">(The Australian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jendayi_Frazer" title="Jendayi Frazer">Jendayi Frazer</a>, U.S. <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_African_Affairs" title="Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs">Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs</a>, accuses <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a> of arming the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Courts_Union" title="Islamic Courts Union">Islamic Courts Union</a> in <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> and of attacking <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ft.com/cms/s/9a41bd38-5f97-11db-a011-0000779e2340.html">(Financial Times)</a></li> <li>A spokesman for <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a> Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" title="Eliot Spitzer">Eliot Spitzer</a> says that a judge has ordered former <a href="/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange">New York Stock Exchange</a> Chairman and Chief Executive <a href="/wiki/Richard_Grasso" title="Richard Grasso">Richard Grasso</a> to repay part of his deferred compensation pay package. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kiplingerforecasts.com/apnews/XmlStoryResult.php?storyid=250129">(AP via Kiplinger)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> has adopted a document that rejects any proposals to ban <a href="/wiki/Space_weapon" title="Space weapon">space weapons</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6063926.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nissan_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Nissan Motors">Nissan Motor Co.</a> begins recalling over 130,000 vehicles globally including 80,000 in <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a> because of an <a href="/wiki/Ignition_key" class="mw-redirect" title="Ignition key">ignition key</a> defect. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2584928&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(ABC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Prime_minister" title="Prime minister">prime minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Meles_Zenawi" title="Meles Zenawi">Meles Zenawi</a> tells the parliament that he had sent military trainers to help <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>'s struggling government, but had not deployed a fighting force. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4271231.html">(AP via <i>Houston Chronicle</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">2006 North Korean nuclear testing</a>: <ul><li>former Chinese Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Tang_Jiaxuan" title="Tang Jiaxuan">Tang Jiaxuan</a> has met North Korea's reclusive leader <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-il" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Jong-il">Kim Jong-il</a> as tensions mount over the <a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">North's nuclear test</a>, according to Chinese officials. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6065168.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a>, also the incoming <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Secretary-General">United Nations Secretary-General</a>, has warned that a second nuclear test by <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> will bring "grave consequences." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/19/nkorea.sanctions/index.html">(CNN)</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 20" id="2006_October_20" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 20, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-20</span>)</span> (Friday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_20&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_20&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_20&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a> agrees to reduce its output by 1.2 million barrels per day (190,000 m<sup>3</sup>/d), its first cut for more than two years, to halt falling oil prices. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2006-10-19-opec_x.htm?csp=34">(USA Today)</a></li> <li>The Indian conglomerate <a href="/wiki/Tata_Group" title="Tata Group">Tata Group</a> agrees to buy Anglo-Dutch <a href="/wiki/Steel" title="Steel">steel</a> firm <a href="/wiki/Corus_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Corus Group">Corus</a> in the largest ever Indian <a href="/wiki/Takeover" title="Takeover">takeover</a> of a foreign company. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?slug=Tata+buys+UK+steelmaker+Corus&id=34193">(NDTV)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> expels two <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> diplomats for allegedly trying to smuggle two fugitives into <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>. The European Union criticises the expulsions as "totally unacceptable." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6068854.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>United States authorities charge a <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> man with making a hoax threat against seven <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> stadiums that said they would be targeted by <a href="/wiki/Terrorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist">terrorists</a> with <a href="/wiki/Radiological" class="mw-redirect" title="Radiological">radiological</a> <a href="/wiki/Dirty_bomb" title="Dirty bomb">dirty bombs</a> on the weekend. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wcbs880.com/pages/111550.php?contentType=4&contentId=226942">(AP via WCBS)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Kazakhstan" title="Government of Kazakhstan">Government of Kazakhstan</a> is building a <a href="/wiki/Security_fence" class="mw-redirect" title="Security fence">security fence</a> on its border with <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a> to prevent <a href="/wiki/Terrorism_in_Kazakhstan" title="Terrorism in Kazakhstan">terrorist attacks in the country</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/world/asia/20briefs-008.html">(The New York Times)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clare_Short" title="Clare Short">Clare Short</a>, the former British cabinet minister, has left the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> to sit as an <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> Labour MP. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6069710.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a> police and members of the <a href="/wiki/Regional_Assistance_Mission_to_the_Solomon_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands">Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands</a> (RAMSI) raid the office of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Manasseh_Sogavare" title="Manasseh Sogavare">Manasseh Sogavare</a> in <a href="/wiki/Honiara" title="Honiara">Honiara</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1769985.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> leaders gather in <a href="/wiki/Lahti" title="Lahti">Lahti</a>, Finland, for a summit with Russian <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6068386.stm">(BBC)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/20/eu.summit.reut/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>Newly <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_population" title="United Kingdom prison population">convicted prisoners</a> in the United Kingdom are to be <a href="/wiki/Operation_Safeguard" title="Operation Safeguard">held in police cells</a> rather than prisons, as the nation's <a href="/wiki/HM_Prison_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="HM Prison Service">prison service</a> faces chronic overcrowding in <a href="/wiki/List_of_prisons_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of prisons in the United Kingdom">its jails</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6071454.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 21" id="2006_October_21" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 21, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-21</span>)</span> (Saturday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_21&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_21&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_21&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Uganda" title="President of Uganda">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Yoweri_Museveni" title="Yoweri Museveni">Yoweri Museveni</a> of <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a> meets <a href="/wiki/Rebellion" title="Rebellion">rebels</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army" title="Lord's Resistance Army">Lord's Resistance Army</a> for the first time in an attempt to revive the <a href="/wiki/Juba_talks" class="mw-redirect" title="Juba talks">Juba talks</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6072994.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dariga_Nazarbayev" class="mw-redirect" title="Dariga Nazarbayev">Dariga Nazarbayeva</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Kazakh_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Kazakh President">Kazakh President</a> <a href="/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev" title="Nursultan Nazarbayev">Nursultan Nazarbayev</a>, says it is time for <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> to "stop behaving like an obedient colony that bows to a foreign gentleman," referring to <a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_Mittal" title="Lakshmi Mittal">Lakshmi Mittal</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arcelor_Mittal" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcelor Mittal">Arcelor Mittal</a>, "whose name appears on the <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a></i> magazine list." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070310223122/http://www.rferl.org/features/features_Article.aspx?m=10&y=2006&id=E6D03F65-19D6-481E-8D8C-C27473F2D624">(RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)</a></li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/Earthquake" title="Earthquake">earthquake</a> of <a href="/wiki/Richter_scale" title="Richter scale">magnitude 5.2</a> hits the central <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>. The quake struck at 10:30 p.m. with its <a href="/wiki/Epicenter" title="Epicenter">epicenter</a> some 35 kilometers south of <a href="/wiki/Boac,_Marinduque" title="Boac, Marinduque">Boac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marinduque" title="Marinduque">Marinduque</a>. The temblor was felt at intensity 4 in the capital <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/metroregions/view_article.php?article_id=27949">(Philippine Daily Inquirer)</a></li> <li>Tropical Storm Paul forms off <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>'s west coast and forecasters predict it could strengthen into a <a href="/wiki/Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane">hurricane</a> and reach land within days. The storm is over the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> about 315 miles (500 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Cabo_Corrientes,_Jalisco" title="Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco">Cabo Corrientes</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Jalisco" title="Jalisco">Jalisco</a> coast. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=nation_world&id=4682378">(AP via ABC Chicago)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(Iraq_War)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)">Iraqi insurgency</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> confers with his top <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> commanders. The meeting is met with a surge in <a href="/wiki/Civil_war_in_Iraq_(2006%E2%80%9307)" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil war in Iraq (2006–07)">sectarian violence</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=at9X1Z7oilgY">(Bloomberg)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)" title="Mortar (weapon)">Mortar</a> fire on a crowded outdoor market in <a href="/wiki/Mahmoudiyah,_Iraq" title="Mahmoudiyah, Iraq">Mahmoudiyah</a> south of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> kills at least 18 people and injures dozens, police say. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070313152803/http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=163433">(Boston Herald)</a></li> <li>Three <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">U.S. Marines</a> are killed in combat in <a href="/wiki/Al_Anbar_Governorate" title="Al Anbar Governorate">Anbar</a> province, making October the deadliest month for American forces in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> in 2006. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070313000848/http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=163580">(Boston Herald)</a></li> <li>Senior <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">U.S. Department of State</a> diplomat Alberto Fernandez says on <a href="/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network" title="Al Jazeera Media Network">Al-Jazeera</a> that the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> but was ready to talk with any group except <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaida_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Qaida in Iraq">Al-Qaida in Iraq</a> to facilitate national reconciliation. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2006/10/21/ap/headlines/d8kt8t880.txt">(AP via Southern Illinoisan)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Fighting has broken out between <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalian</a> troops and a local militia in alliance with the country's new <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> movement. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070331061726/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews">(Reuters)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 22" id="2006_October_22" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 22, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-22</span>)</span> (Sunday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_22&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_22&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_22&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Paul" title="2006 Pacific hurricane season">Tropical Storm Paul</a> is upgraded to a <a href="/wiki/Saffir-Simpson_Hurricane_Scale" class="mw-redirect" title="Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale">Category 1</a> <a href="/wiki/Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane">hurricane</a> and is threatening <a href="/wiki/Baja_California" title="Baja California">Baja California</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22283358.htm">(Reuters Alertnet)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammed_Shahadeh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammed Shahadeh (page does not exist)">Mohammed Shahadeh</a>, leader of the <a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Martyrs_Brigades" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades">al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades</a> terrorist organization in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> <a href="/wiki/Bureij" title="Bureij">Bureij</a> <a href="/wiki/Refugee_camp" title="Refugee camp">refugee camp</a>, is shot to death outside his home. <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a> officials accuse members of <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> of being behind the assassination. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6074310.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alberto_Fernandez_(United_States_Official)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alberto Fernandez (United States Official)">Alberto Fernandez</a>, Director of Office of Press and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">United States Department of State</a>, apologises for saying the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">United States Government</a> has shown "arrogance and stupidity" in <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/world/23diplo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">(New York Times)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(Iraq_War)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)">Iraqi insurgency</a>: <ul><li>Gunmen kill 15 police recruits and wound 25 south of the city of <a href="/wiki/Baqouba" class="mw-redirect" title="Baqouba">Baqouba</a> in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2596988&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(AP via ABC News America)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Based on extraofficial partial results, <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a> has <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_referendum,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006">approved in a referendum</a> a $5.25 billion USD <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Expansion_Proposal" class="mw-redirect" title="Panama Canal Expansion Proposal">plan to expand</a> the <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a> by 79% (40% of votes counted). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tribunal-electoral.gob.pa/Referendum2006/WebAppElections/VersionIngles.aspx">Real-Time counting of votes</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6074106.stm">(BBC News)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/22/panama.canal.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Icelandic</a> fisherman kill a <a href="/wiki/Fin_Whale" class="mw-redirect" title="Fin Whale">Fin Whale</a>, breaking the <a href="/wiki/International_Whaling_Commission" title="International Whaling Commission">International Whaling Commission</a>'s ban on commercial <a href="/wiki/Whaling" title="Whaling">whaling</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6074230.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li>The government of <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a> gives <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> envoy <a href="/wiki/Jan_Pronk" title="Jan Pronk">Jan Pronk</a> three days notice to leave the country over comments on the military situation in <a href="/wiki/Darfur" title="Darfur">Darfur</a> made on his <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">weblog</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6074808.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Defense_Ministers_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Defense Ministers of Israel">defense minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Amir_Peretz" title="Amir Peretz">Amir Peretz</a> says flights over <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a> will continue until <a href="/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_1701" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security Council Resolution 1701">UN Security Council Resolution 1701</a> is fully implemented. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3317949,00.html">(Ynet News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Schumacher" title="Michael Schumacher">Michael Schumacher</a>, seven times <a href="/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_World_Drivers%27_Champions" title="List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions">Formula One World Champion</a>, retires from <a href="/wiki/Formula_One" title="Formula One">the sport</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6075440.stm">(BBC News)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070312183534/http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=cee2bcf8-dddd-46ac-a6d6-b486caae0e0f&k=52421">(Canada.com)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 23" id="2006_October_23" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 23, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-23</span>)</span> (Monday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_23&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_23&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_23&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Army">Romanian Army</a> officially ends the use of <a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">conscription</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/07A43B93-BADF-42E8-8548-B3748741184D.html">(RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)</a></li> <li>The Initiative Group of Independent Rights Defenders in <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a> demands the <a href="/wiki/Islom_Karimov" class="mw-redirect" title="Islom Karimov">Karimov administration</a> release political opposition leader <a href="/wiki/Sanjar_Umarov" title="Sanjar Umarov">Sanjar Umarov</a>, calling the case against him "entirely fabricated." Uzbek authorities arrested Umarov in 2005. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/bba99d4d-6bb4-4bac-8cd5-912207b02861.html">(RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)</a></li> <li>Police in <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> fire <a href="/wiki/Tear_gas" title="Tear gas">tear gas</a> on <a href="/wiki/2006_protests_in_Hungary" title="2006 protests in Hungary">crowds of about 1,000 demonstrators</a> during the 50th anniversary of the country's <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1956">revolt against Soviet rule</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6074138.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Michael_Somare" title="Michael Somare">Michael Somare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Papua_New_Guinea" title="Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea">Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ham_Lini" class="mw-redirect" title="Ham Lini">Ham Lini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Vanuatu" title="Prime Minister of Vanuatu">Prime Minister of Vanuatu</a>, condemn the police raid on the office of <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Solomon Islands Prime Minister">Solomon Islands Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Manasseh_Sogavare" title="Manasseh Sogavare">Manasseh Sogavare</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080602130153/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1771095.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Paul" title="2006 Pacific hurricane season">Hurricane Paul</a> becomes a <a href="/wiki/Saffir-Simpson_Hurricane_Scale" class="mw-redirect" title="Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale">Category 2</a> <a href="/wiki/Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane">hurricane</a> off <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific</a> coast as it heads for <a href="/wiki/Baja_California" title="Baja California">Baja California</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/23/world/main2113439.shtml">(CBS News)</a></li> <li>Two of the three people accused of plotting to steal trade secrets from <a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola">Coca-Cola</a> have each pleaded guilty to one count of <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy (crime)">conspiracy</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004429/http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=234511">(AP via Sharewatch)</a></li> <li>Authorities say an explosion at a <a href="/wiki/Coal" title="Coal">coal</a> <a href="/wiki/Mining" title="Mining">mine</a> in eastern <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> has killed one person. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070312085734/http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=5577039&nav=2KPp2Qjt">(AP via Fox North Carolina)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avigdor_Liberman" class="mw-redirect" title="Avigdor Liberman">Avigdor Liberman</a> signs a coalitionary agreement with <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel" title="Prime Minister of Israel">Israeli Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Ehud_Olmert" title="Ehud Olmert">Ehud Olmert</a> to join the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Israel" title="Cabinet of Israel">cabinet</a> as Minister for Strategic Affairs, a new position. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3318674,00.html">(Ynetnews)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling" title="Jeffrey Skilling">Jeffrey Skilling</a> is sentenced to 24 years, 4 months in prison for his role in the collapse of <a href="/wiki/Enron" title="Enron">Enron</a>, concluding the <a href="/wiki/Trial_of_Kenneth_Lay_and_Jeffrey_Skilling" title="Trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling">Trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/23/ap/business/mainD8KUIIFO0.shtml">(AP via CBS News)</a></li> <li>Though given three days to leave <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a> for blogging on recent government defeats in the <a href="/wiki/Darfur_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Darfur conflict">Darfur conflict</a>, UN envoy <a href="/wiki/Jan_Pronk" title="Jan Pronk">Jan Pronk</a> left the next day when UN Secretary General Kofi Annan recalled him to New York for consultations. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6076022.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The airing of excerpts from a <a href="/wiki/2006_Melbourne_teenage_DVD_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Melbourne teenage DVD controversy">controversial DVD</a> in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> leads to a police investigation and public condemnation.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/24/1161455722271.html">(The Age)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 24" id="2006_October_24" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 24, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-24</span>)</span> (Tuesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_24&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_24&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_24&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopian Prime Minister">Ethiopian Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Meles_Zenawi" title="Meles Zenawi">Meles Zenawi</a> accuses the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Eritrea" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Eritrea">Government of Eritrea</a> of jeopardizing regional stability by engaging in a <a href="/wiki/Proxy_war" title="Proxy war">proxy war</a> through its assistance to the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Courts_Union" title="Islamic Courts Union">Islamic Courts Union</a> in <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>. Zenawi warns the Ethiopian Parliament that "<a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">Jihadists</a> are amassing their forces near our borders."<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061023193803/http://allafrica.com/stories/200610230046.html">(allAfrica)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> closes at another record high. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,20641607-31037,00.html">(News Limited)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Solomon Islands Prime Minister">Solomon Islands Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Manasseh_Sogavare" title="Manasseh Sogavare">Manasseh Sogavare</a> formally proposes reducing the role of <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Regional_Assistance_Mission_to_the_Solomon_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands">Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands</a> (RAMSI) in his country at a Pacific leaders forum in <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070312143141/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1772451.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> announces it plans to assist <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> in developing nuclear power for "peaceful purposes." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20061024%5cACQDJON200610241022DOWJONESDJONLINE000524.htm&">(NASDAQ)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iran" title="President of Iran">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad" title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a> opposes a bill in Iranian parliament that would require the <a href="/wiki/Fingerprinting" class="mw-redirect" title="Fingerprinting">fingerprinting</a> of any citizens of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> that are visiting Iran, stating, "We do not have a problem with American people. We oppose only the U.S. government." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2601936&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(AP via ABC)</a></li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> photographer is released after a day in the hands of <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian people">Palestinian</a> gunmen. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070921124916/http://wcbstv.com/national/topstories_story_297170839.html">(AP via WCBS)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the United States House of Representatives</a> <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert">Dennis Hastert</a> sits down with ethics investigators trying to determine when he and his staff learned about ex-<a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">Rep.</a> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley" title="Mark Foley">Mark Foley</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley_Scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Foley Scandal">come-ons to former male pages</a> and what they did to stop it. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/10/24/national/w103834D73.DTL&feed=rss.news">(AP via San Francisco Chronicle)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozilla Firefox">Firefox</a> 2.0 is released. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6130035.html">(CNET)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 25" id="2006_October_25" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 25, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-25</span>)</span> (Wednesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_25&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_25&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_25&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">2006 North Korean nuclear testing</a>: <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> warns that any participation by <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> in <a href="/wiki/U.S." class="mw-redirect" title="U.S.">U.S.</a> led <a href="/wiki/Economic_sanctions" title="Economic sanctions">sanctions</a> would be seen as a serious provocation leading to a "crisis of war" on the <a href="/wiki/Korean_peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean peninsula">Korean peninsula</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/25/korea.threat.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest">(CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraqi</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iraq" title="Prime Minister of Iraq">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Nouri_al-Maliki" title="Nouri al-Maliki">Nouri al-Maliki</a> objects to <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> efforts to get his government to set a timetable for achieving security goals and denounces a raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces on the <a href="/wiki/Private_militias_in_Iraq" title="Private militias in Iraq">militias</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sadr_City" title="Sadr City">Sadr City</a> that was done without his knowledge. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2606516&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(AP via ABC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/CITIC_Group" title="CITIC Group">CITIC Group</a> of Beijing buys the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nations_Energy_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nations Energy Company (page does not exist)">Nations Energy Company</a>, the state-owned <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">petroleum</a> company of <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>, for USD $1.91 billion. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/headline_news/article.jsp?content=b1025148A">(Canadian Business Online)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li>Surgeons in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> are given permission by a <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Service</a> ethics committee to prepare to perform the world's first full <a href="/wiki/Face_transplant" title="Face transplant">face transplant</a> at <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Royal_Free_Hospital" title="Royal Free Hospital">Royal Free Hospital</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6083392.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentine</a> prosecutors formally charge the <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> government and the <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> <a href="/wiki/Hezbollah" title="Hezbollah">Hezbollah</a> over the <a href="/wiki/AMIA_Bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="AMIA Bombing">1994 bombing</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jewish</a> centre which killed 85 people. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6085768.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Federal_Reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Federal Reserve">United States Federal Reserve</a> keeps its benchmark <a href="/wiki/Interest_rate" title="Interest rate">interest rate</a> at 5.25 percent for a third month and reiterates that officials are relying on lower energy prices and slowing growth to reduce <a href="/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atyghznUOVX0">(Bloomberg)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conflict_in_the_Niger_Delta" title="Conflict in the Niger Delta">Conflict in the Niger Delta</a>: Villagers in <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> storm and seize three <a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Dutch Shell">Royal Dutch Shell</a> oil platforms in the <a href="/wiki/Niger_Delta" title="Niger Delta">Niger Delta</a>, forcing oil production to be shut down at each one. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061025/API/610251320">(AP via Daily Comet)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Courts_Union" title="Islamic Courts Union">Islamic Courts Union</a> in <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> has begun recruiting thousands of people in response to <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_involvement_in_Somalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopian involvement in Somalia">alleged military action</a> by neighboring <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, amid fears of all-out war across the country. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061107202551/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/284EE7A7-08AB-4709-AB2E-8FE902602254.htm">(Al Jazeera)</a></li> <li>The government of <a href="/wiki/Niger" title="Niger">Niger</a> announces that due to "difficult relations with indigenous rural populations," the country's 150,000 <a href="/wiki/Mahamid" title="Mahamid">Mahamid</a> Arab refugee population who have lived in Niger since having fled <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a> two decades earlier, will be deported back to Chad. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L24176642">(Reuters)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General" class="mw-redirect" title="General">General</a> <a href="/wiki/George_W._Casey_Jr." title="George W. Casey Jr.">George W. Casey Jr.</a>, the top <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> commander in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, has said it will take 12 to 18 months before Iraqi security forces are ready to take over in the country. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.main.intl/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> Unification Minister <a href="/wiki/Lee_Jong-seok_(politician)" title="Lee Jong-seok (politician)">Lee Jong-seok</a> resigns. Defence Minister <a href="/wiki/Yoon_Kwang-ung" title="Yoon Kwang-ung">Yoon Kwang-ung</a> had resigned earlier in the week with the <a href="/wiki/President_of_South_Korea" title="President of South Korea">President of South Korea</a> <a href="/wiki/Roh_Moo-Hyun" class="mw-redirect" title="Roh Moo-Hyun">Roh Moo-Hyun</a> expected to announce changes in his foreign policy and defence advisers soon. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/237433/1/.html">(AFP via Channel News Asia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigadier" title="Brigadier">Brigadier</a> <a href="/wiki/Mick_Slater" class="mw-redirect" title="Mick Slater">Mick Slater</a>, the commander of <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> troops in <a href="/wiki/East_Timor" title="East Timor">East Timor</a> warns that a humanitarian disaster could happen in that nation, unless housing for <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugees</a> fleeing the unrest in <a href="/wiki/Dili" title="Dili">Dili</a> can be arranged before the approaching <a href="/wiki/Wet_season" title="Wet season">wet season</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1772923.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Scully" title="Carl Scully">Carl Scully</a> resigns as Police Minister of <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a> for misleading the <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Legislative_Assembly" title="New South Wales Legislative Assembly">New South Wales Legislative Assembly</a> twice in two weeks over a report on the <a href="/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots" title="2005 Cronulla riots">2005 Cronulla riots</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20644487-5007132,00.html">(Daily Telegraph)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen" title="Jon Lech Johansen">Jon Lech Johansen</a> claims to have <a href="/wiki/Reverse_engineered" class="mw-redirect" title="Reverse engineered">reverse engineered</a> the <a href="/wiki/FairPlay" title="FairPlay">FairPlay</a> <a href="/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Rights Management">copy protection</a> used by <a href="/wiki/Apple_Computer" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple Computer">Apple</a>'s <a href="/wiki/IPod" title="IPod">iPod</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITunes_Store" title="ITunes Store">iTunes Store</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6083110.stm">(BBC)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/10/24/ipod.code.ap/index.html">(AP via CNN)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 26" id="2006_October_26" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 26, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-26</span>)</span> (Thursday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_26&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_26&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_26&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> signs into law <a href="/wiki/The_Secure_Fence_Act_of_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="The Secure Fence Act of 2006">The Secure Fence Act of 2006</a> to build a fence along the <a href="/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico_border" class="mw-redirect" title="United States–Mexico border">U.S.-Mexico border</a>. <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bush_signs_law_to_build_fence_at_US-Mexico_border" class="extiw" title="n:Bush signs law to build fence at US-Mexico border">(Wikinews)</a></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, Sheikh <a href="/wiki/Taj_El-Din_Hilaly" title="Taj El-Din Hilaly">Taj El-Din Hilaly</a> apologizes after a public uproar over his statement comparing women who did not wear the <a href="/wiki/Hijab" title="Hijab">hijab</a> to "uncovered meat". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6086374.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Nicaragua" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Nicaragua">National Assembly</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> passes a <a href="/wiki/Abortion_law" title="Abortion law">law banning all abortions</a> in the run-up to <a href="/wiki/Nicaraguan_general_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicaraguan general election, 2006">general elections</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6089718.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/Progress_spacecraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Progress spacecraft">Progress spacecraft</a> hauling fresh food, oxygen and vital spare parts for the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a> (ISS) <a href="/wiki/Uncrewed_spaceflights_to_the_International_Space_Station" title="Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station">arrived at its orbital destination</a> after a successful rendezvous marred by a last-minute antenna glitch. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-10-26-iss-docking_x.htm?csp=34">(USA Today)</a></li> <li>Four firefighters are killed and one is critically injured as they tried to control the <a href="/wiki/Esperanza_Fire" title="Esperanza Fire">Esperanza Fire</a> that drove hundreds from their homes near <a href="/wiki/Palm_Springs,_California" title="Palm Springs, California">Palm Springs, California</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. An <a href="/wiki/Arsonist" class="mw-redirect" title="Arsonist">arsonist</a> started the fire. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/26/calif.fire.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest">(CNN)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/national/main2125871.shtml">(CBS)</a></li> <li>Fifteen people die and 400 are admitted to hospital in <a href="/wiki/Pskov" title="Pskov">Pskov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, after consuming alcohol suspected of being tainted with medicinal drugs or chemicals. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=dc26290e5543ffda365d4dbae46c33356710fba5">(Reuters)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Kiribati" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Kiribati">Governments of Kiribati</a> and <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Tuvalu" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Tuvalu">Tuvalu</a> say the citizens of their countries will need to be permanently relocated over the next ten years due to <a href="/wiki/Sea_level_rise" title="Sea level rise">rising sea levels</a> caused by <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10407508">(TNZH)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil">ExxonMobil</a> Corp., the world's largest <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">petroleum</a> extracting company, says its third-quarter net income rose to <a href="/wiki/USD" class="mw-redirect" title="USD">USD</a> $10.5 billion from $9.92 billion as crude prices rise to an all-time high. This is the second highest quarterly <a href="/wiki/Profit_(economics)" title="Profit (economics)">profit</a> figure for a <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> company. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVS8c5k6Xs38">(Bloomberg)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> government officials claim at least 60 <a href="/wiki/Civilian" title="Civilian">civilians</a> were killed in <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">ISAF</a> <a href="/wiki/Operation_Medusa" title="Operation Medusa">Operation Medusa</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Panjwayi" class="mw-redirect" title="Panjwayi">Panjwayi</a> district of <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Kandahar province">Kandahar province</a> on Tuesday. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2607346&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(ABC News)</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> minister claims that two <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> fighter jets fired two shots over a German naval peacekeeping ship near the Lebanese coast. Israel denies the jets fired. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2421898,00.html">(Times)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Sims_2_Pets" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sims 2 Pets">The Sims 2 Pets</a> is released in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> and is announced that AU$1 will be donated from every game for the first 50,000 games sold to the <a href="/wiki/RSPCA" title="RSPCA">RSPCA</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 27" id="2006_October_27" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 27, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-27</span>)</span> (Friday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_27&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_27&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_27&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>'s senior <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> cleric Sheikh <a href="/wiki/Taj_El-Din_Hilaly" title="Taj El-Din Hilaly">Taj El-Din Hilaly</a> is barred from preaching for three months after his controversial speech comparing women who did not wear the <a href="/wiki/Hijab" title="Hijab">hijab</a> to "uncovered meat". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6090136.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a>: The <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> win the <a href="/wiki/2006_World_Series" title="2006 World Series">2006 World Series</a>, beating the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> 4 games to 1. This is the Cardinals' first title since <a href="/wiki/1982_World_Series" title="1982 World Series">1982</a>. <a href="/wiki/David_Eckstein" title="David Eckstein">David Eckstein</a> is named the World Series MVP, winning his second ring. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=261027124">(ESPN)</a></li> <li>A judge orders the arrest of former <a href="/wiki/President_of_Chile" title="President of Chile">President of Chile</a> <a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Augusto Pinochet</a> for torture, murder and kidnapping (<a href="/wiki/Villa_Grimaldi" title="Villa Grimaldi">Villa Grimaldi</a> case) in the early years of his regime, from 1973 to 1990. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1775705.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li>Thousands of young <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> men demonstrate in the <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somali</a> capital of <a href="/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</a> in support of a call for a <a href="/wiki/Religious_war" title="Religious war">holy war</a> against <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6092060.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C.">Washington D.C.</a>-area sniper <a href="/wiki/Lee_Boyd_Malvo" title="Lee Boyd Malvo">Lee Boyd Malvo</a> admitted that he and partner <a href="/wiki/John_Allen_Muhammad" title="John Allen Muhammad">John Allen Muhammad</a> were responsible for the 2002 murder of a 60-year-old man on a <a href="/wiki/Tucson" class="mw-redirect" title="Tucson">Tucson</a> golf course, police claim. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kpho.com/news/10177759/detail.html">(AP via KPHO)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Students%27_News_Agency" title="Iranian Students' News Agency">Iranian Students' News Agency</a> reports that Iran has injected gas into a second network of <a href="/wiki/Centrifuge" title="Centrifuge">centrifuges</a> and has obtained the output, a possible step in developing <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_materials" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear materials">nuclear materials</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/27/iran.nuclear.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest">(CNN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>, Governor of the U.S. state of <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, declares a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a>, and a reward of <a href="/wiki/USD" class="mw-redirect" title="USD">USD</a> $500,000 is offered for the capture of the <a href="/wiki/Arson" title="Arson">arsonist</a> responsible for the wildfires started in the Twin Pines area of the state.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/27/california.wildfire/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>Shares in the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_and_Commercial_Bank_of_China" title="Industrial and Commercial Bank of China">Industrial and Commercial Bank of China</a> go on sale at the <a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Stock_Exchange" title="Shanghai Stock Exchange">Shanghai Stock Exchange</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Stock_Exchange" title="Hong Kong Stock Exchange">Hong Kong Stock Exchange</a> in the world's biggest <a href="/wiki/Initial_Public_Offering" class="mw-redirect" title="Initial Public Offering">Initial Public Offering</a> (IPO). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/10/26/icbc.trading.ap/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>Johannesburg International Airport is renamed to <a href="/wiki/OR_Tambo_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="OR Tambo International Airport">OR Tambo International Airport</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061105034107/http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2021445,00.html">(News24)</a></li> <li>A controlled explosion is carried out by an Army Bomb Disposal squad on <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/O%27Connell_Street" title="O'Connell Street">O'Connell Street</a> after a security alert on an <a href="/wiki/Aircoach" title="Aircoach">Aircoach</a> bus, although no explosive material was found. Traffic in the city has been severely affected. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1027/dublin.html?rss">(RTÉ)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Ford_Taurus" title="Ford Taurus">Ford Taurus</a> rolls off the assembly line for the last time. The Ford plant in Atlanta, USA, closes and 2,000 employees are all laid off. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15444807/">MSNBC</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 28" id="2006_October_28" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 28, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-28</span>)</span> (Saturday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_28&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_28&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_28&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>General <a href="/wiki/Henry_Obering" title="Henry Obering">Henry Obering</a>, the head of <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">the Pentagon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Missile_Defense_Agency" title="Missile Defense Agency">Missile Defense Agency</a> welcomes what he cast as epochal progress toward putting a high-energy <a href="/wiki/Laser" title="Laser">laser</a> aboard a modified <a href="/wiki/Boeing_747" title="Boeing 747">Boeing 747</a> to attack <a href="/wiki/Ballistic_missiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballistic missiles">ballistic missiles</a> that could be fired by <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070318004921/http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1775995.htm">(Reuters via ABC News Australia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuban</a> television shows images of convalescing leader <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a> walking and reading the day's newspapers showing that he is recovering from his emergency surgery in July. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061025044729/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews">(Reuters)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6095622.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Russia" title="List of political parties in Russia">political parties</a> <a href="/wiki/Rodina_(political_party)" title="Rodina (political party)">Rodina</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Party_of_Life" title="Russian Party of Life">Russian Party of Life</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Pensioners%27_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Pensioners' Party">Russian Pensioners' Party</a> merge to form a new leftist party, <a href="/wiki/Fair_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Fair Russia">Fair Russia</a>, effectively making <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Mironov" title="Sergey Mironov">Sergey Mironov</a> the new <a href="/wiki/Opposition_(parliamentary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition (parliamentary)">leader of the opposition</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Assembly_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Assembly of Russia">Russian legislature</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10932904&PageNum=0">(ITAR-TASS)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged July 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/28/europe/EU_POL_Russia_Politics.php">(IHT)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iraq" title="Prime Minister of Iraq">Prime Minister of Iraq</a> <a href="/wiki/Nouri_al-Maliki" title="Nouri al-Maliki">Nouri al-Maliki</a> tells the U.S. ambassador that he is <a href="/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C.">Washington's</a> friend but "not <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">America's</a> man in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/28/iraq/main2135098.shtml">(CBS News)</a></li> <li>At least 42 people are killed in a <a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Luham_bus_crash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2006 Luham bus crash (page does not exist)">bus crash</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6094522.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li>Violence breaks out during street protests in <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>, causing the deaths of at least 9 people, as confusion continues over who will take over governing the country from former Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Begum_Khaleda_Zia" class="mw-redirect" title="Begum Khaleda Zia">Begum Khaleda Zia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=a6fc6ae9830fe7d9dd52603770a59e49944d2e6d&WTmodLoc=%22Home-R2-Top+News-4">(Reuters)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Genome" title="Genome">genome</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Honeybee" class="mw-redirect" title="Honeybee">honeybee</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Apis_mellifera" class="mw-redirect" title="Apis mellifera">Apis mellifera</a></i> has been fully sequenced and analyzed. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7114/full/443884a.html">(Nature)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> newspaper <a href="/wiki/Bild" title="Bild">Bild</a> publishes photos allegedly showing <a href="/wiki/Bundeswehr" title="Bundeswehr">Bundeswehr</a> troops posing with human remains in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> while on <a href="/wiki/Peacekeeping" title="Peacekeeping">peacekeeping</a> duties there. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=1de5a35466ce059aac74dc0610e1e3e595822761">(Reuters)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> apologizes for the deaths of Afghan civilians in an <a href="/wiki/Airstrike" title="Airstrike">air raid</a> on Tuesday, <a href="/wiki/October_24" title="October 24">October 24</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Kandahar province">Kandahar province</a>, blaming <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> insurgents for using the villagers as cover. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6094800.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_constitutional_referendum,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian constitutional referendum, 2006">Voting begins on a new Serbian constitution</a> that would make <a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a> <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_status_of_Kosovo" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional status of Kosovo">officially a part of</a> <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>; <a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">voter turnout</a> on day one was low. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6090392.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kabila" title="Joseph Kabila">Joseph Kabila</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Bemba" title="Jean-Pierre Bemba">Jean-Pierre Bemba</a> face-off in the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_general_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2006">presidential run-off election</a> in <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6095754.stm">(BBC)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 29" id="2006_October_29" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 29, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-29</span>)</span> (Sunday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_29&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_29&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_29&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexican</a> federal police seize the center of <a href="/wiki/Oaxaca,_Oaxaca" class="mw-redirect" title="Oaxaca, Oaxaca">Oaxaca</a>, which had served as the headquarters for the five-month protest occupation of the city. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/30/america/web.1030mexico.php">(International Herald Tribune)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Brazil" title="President of Brazil">President of Brazil</a> <a href="/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva" title="Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva">Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva</a> wins a second term in <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_general_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Brazilian general elections, 2006">a landslide victory</a> with 61 per cent of voters supporting him. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/88-10292006-734082.html">(AP via Phillyburbs)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2019">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_constitutional_referendum,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian constitutional referendum, 2006">Serbian constitutional referendum, 2006</a>: Serbian voters approve the new constitution. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6097344.stm">BBC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(Iraq_War)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)">Iraqi insurgency</a>: 17 police officers, 15 of them police trainers, are abducted and murdered in <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6097180.stm">(BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">War in Afghanistan (2001–present)</a>: One <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> soldier and about 70 <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgents</a> were killed in southern <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> when fighting broke out between insurgents and Afghan troops and NATO's <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">International Security Assistance Force</a> (ISAF), officials said. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/29/afghan.fighting/index.html">(CNN)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Attorney-General" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney-General">Attorney-General</a> of <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> delivers a brief to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Israel" title="Supreme Court of Israel">Supreme Court of Israel</a> arguing that the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Israel" title="President of Israel">President of Israel</a> <a href="/wiki/Moshe_Katsav" title="Moshe Katsav">Moshe Katsav</a> should stand aside pending a possible <a href="/wiki/Indictment" title="Indictment">indictment</a> for <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/AfpNews/200610291754091162115649.52/afp">(AFP via New Sunday Times)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged April 2020">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ADC_Airlines" title="ADC Airlines">ADC</a> <a href="/wiki/ADC_Flight_53" class="mw-redirect" title="ADC Flight 53">Flight 53</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigerian</a> <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737" title="Boeing 737">Boeing 737</a> <a href="/wiki/Airliner" title="Airliner">airliner</a> carrying more than 100 passengers, <a href="/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents" title="Aviation accidents and incidents">crashes</a> near <a href="/wiki/Nnamdi_Azikiwe_International_Airport" title="Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport">Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abuja" title="Abuja">Abuja</a>. The <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sultans_of_Sokoto" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Sultans of Sokoto">Sultan of Sokoto</a> <a href="/wiki/Mohammadu_Maccido" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammadu Maccido">Mohammadu Maccido</a>, the sultan's son, Muhammed Maccido, a senator, and Abdulrahman Shehu Shagari, son of former Nigerian President <a href="/wiki/Shehu_Shagari" title="Shehu Shagari">Shehu Shagari</a>, are on the list of passengers on board. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070311082155/http://cbs3.com/topstories/topstories_story_302082204.html">(CBS)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29881419.htm">(Reuters)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/29/content_5264649.htm">(Xinhua)</a> There are six confirmed survivors. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124914/http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/west_africa/0,2172,137489,00.html">(SABC)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/29/nigeria.crash/">(CNN)</a></li> <li>Fierce political rioting in <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> kills at least 10 people and wounds about 500 as the main <a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Bangladesh" title="List of political parties in Bangladesh">political parties</a> fail to agree on a successor after the expiry of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh" title="Prime Minister of Bangladesh">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Begum_Khaleda_Zia" class="mw-redirect" title="Begum Khaleda Zia">Begum Khaleda Zia</a>'s five-year term. <a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Bangladesh" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of Bangladesh">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Iajuddin_Ahmed" title="Iajuddin Ahmed">Iajuddin Ahmed</a> becomes interim PM. Opposition <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Awami_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangladesh Awami League">Awami League</a> accuses Iajuddin of violating the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Bangladesh" title="Constitution of Bangladesh">Constitution of Bangladesh</a> by appointing himself as head of the interim government. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29889973.htm">(Reuters)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/29/bangladesh.president.ap/">(CNN)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061029/asp/foreign/story_6930615.asp">(Telegraph)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 30" id="2006_October_30" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 30, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-30</span>)</span> (Monday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_30&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_30&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_30&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li>President of <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> <a href="/wiki/Georgi_Parvanov" title="Georgi Parvanov">Georgi Parvanov</a> is reelected after a run-off election with <a href="/wiki/Volen_Siderov" title="Volen Siderov">Volen Siderov</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_presidential_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian presidential election, 2006">presidential elections</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eitb24.com/portal/eitb24/noticia/en/international-news/runoff-election--bulgarias-pro-western-president-wins-an-easy-vic?itemId=B24_18004&cl=%2Feitb24%2Finternacional&idioma=en">(EITB)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chenagai_airstrike" title="Chenagai airstrike">Chenagai airstrike</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a> <a href="/wiki/Helicopter" title="Helicopter">helicopter</a> gunships fired missiles and destroyed an <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>-linked training facility and killed 80 suspected <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorists</a> in a northwestern tribal area near the <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> border, in a <a href="/wiki/Madrassa" class="mw-redirect" title="Madrassa">madrassa</a> near the town of <a href="/wiki/Khar_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Khar (Pakistan)">Khar</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL72506.htm">(Reuters AlertNet)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Israeli_cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli cabinet">Israeli cabinet</a> has approved the addition of the <a href="/wiki/Yisrael_Beitenu" class="mw-redirect" title="Yisrael Beitenu">Yisrael Beitenu</a> party into the governing coalition. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6098310.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Stern" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Stern">Nicholas Stern</a>, the former chief economist of the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a>, submits a report to the <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Government">British Government</a> warning of the economic costs and damage to the world that could result from <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2428092,00.html">(The Times)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>'s chief lawyer, <a href="/wiki/Khalil_al-Duleimi" title="Khalil al-Duleimi">Khalil al-Duleimi</a>, walks out of court after 12 of his requests were rejected, but the chief judge immediately appoints other attorneys to defend the deposed <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iraq" title="President of Iraq">President of Iraq</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-10-30-saddam-trial_x.htm?csp=34">(USA Today)</a></li> <li>Specialist <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Qusai_al-Taayie" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie">Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi American">Iraqi American</a> United States Army soldier currently listed as missing in action in Iraq, is reported to have married an Iraqi citizen, against U.S. military regulations. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://msnbc.msn.com/id/15480823/">(MSNBC)</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Bomb" title="Bomb">bomb</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> market kills 31 people and wounds more than 50 others. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2614970&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">(AP via ABC News America)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pacific_typhoon_season#Typhoon_Cimaron_(Paeng)" title="2006 Pacific typhoon season">Super Typhoon Cimaron</a>, the strongest storm to hit the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> in eight years, kills at least three people as it makes landfall in <a href="/wiki/Luzon" title="Luzon">Luzon</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAN265524.htm">(Reuters)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070320180517/http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN">(Reuters)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248507241"><div class="current-events"> <div role="region" aria-label="October 31" id="2006_October_31" class="current-events-main vevent"> <div class="current-events-heading plainlinks"> <div class="current-events-title" role="heading"><span class="summary">October 31, 2006<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2006-10-31</span>)</span> (Tuesday)</span> </div> <ul class="current-events-navbar editlink noprint"><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_31&action=edit&editintro=Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions">edit</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_31&action=history">history</a></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2006_October_31&action=watch">watch</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="current-events-content description"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Esperanza_Fire" title="Esperanza Fire">Esperanza Fire</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> authorities arrest a man who is suspected of intentionally starting two wildfires this summer and is considered a person of interest in the Esperanza Fire.</li> <li>A fifth firefighter dies as a result of injuries obtained fighting the Esperanza Fire near <a href="/wiki/Palm_Springs,_California" title="Palm Springs, California">Palm Springs, California</a> started by arson. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fire1nov01,0,270136.story">(Los Angeles Times)</a></li></ul></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> federal appeals court blocks a landmark judgment against the <a href="/wiki/Tobacco" title="Tobacco">tobacco</a> industry clearing the way for selling "light" and "low tar" <a href="/wiki/Cigarette" title="Cigarette">cigarettes</a> until industry appeals can be reviewed. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kiplingerforecasts.com/apnews/XmlStoryResult.php?storyid=255900">(AP via Kiplinger forecasts)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah" title="Hassan Nasrallah">Hassan Nasrallah</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary-General">Secretary-General</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hezbollah" title="Hezbollah">Hezbollah</a>, says that it has started negotiating with <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> on prisoner exchange. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31463700.htm">(Reuters)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galymzhan_Zhakiyanov" title="Galymzhan Zhakiyanov">Galymzhan Zhakiyanov</a>, a prominent Kazakhstani politician and one of the founders of <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Choice_of_Kazakhstan" title="Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan">Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan</a>, says the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Kazakhstan" title="Government of Kazakhstan">Government of Kazakhstan</a> should "look at other circumstances that have harmed <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>'s image" instead of "fighting <a href="/wiki/Borat" title="Borat">Borat</a>." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3846917a1860,00.html">(stuff)</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles, Prince of Wales">Prince of Wales</a>’s controversial visit today to a <a href="/wiki/Madrassa" class="mw-redirect" title="Madrassa">madrassa</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a> town of <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a>, bordering <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> has been cancelled over fears for his safety, after calls by <a href="/wiki/Islamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic">Islamic</a> leaders for revenge for a Pakistani airstrike that destroyed another religious school about 60 miles away. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2429520,00.html">(The Times)</a></li> <li>The Lebanese army issued a statement saying its gunners fired anti-aircraft artillery at <a href="/wiki/Israel_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel Air Force">Israel Air Force</a> warplanes as they flew over <a href="/wiki/South_Lebanon" class="mw-redirect" title="South Lebanon">south Lebanon</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000216/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/781888.html">(Haaretz)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">China</a> announces the resumption of the stalled <a href="/wiki/Six-party_talks" title="Six-party talks">six-party talks</a> to find a peaceful resolution to concerns about <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korean</a> <a href="/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="North Korea and weapons of mass destruction">nuclear weapons program</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6102092.stm">(BBC News)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a>: Suspected militants attack a convoy of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> troops in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>'s eastern province of <a href="/wiki/Nuristan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuristan">Nuristan</a> killing three soldiers. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL52332.htm">(Reuters)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chenagai_airstrike" title="Chenagai airstrike">Chenagai airstrike</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a> officials confirm that a strike on a <a href="/wiki/Madrassah" class="mw-redirect" title="Madrassah">madrassah</a> was based on <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> intelligence that senior members of <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> were hiding there. The attack has generated protests by religious and tribal leaders in Pakistan. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103000176.html?nav=rss_nation/special">(The Washington Post)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">Fiji's military</a> stage exercises around the capital <a href="/wiki/Suva" title="Suva">Suva</a> and close off the city's army barracks as tensions rose due to fears of a <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a>. Fiji's military chief, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bainimarama" title="Frank Bainimarama">Frank Bainimarama</a>, has threatened to force the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Fiji" title="Prime Minister of Fiji">Prime Minister of Fiji</a> <a href="/wiki/Laisenia_Qarase" title="Laisenia Qarase">Laisenia Qarase</a> to resign unless the Prime Minister drops two Bills, one which will offer amnesty to some of those involved in a <a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">2000 coup</a> led by <a href="/wiki/George_Speight" title="George Speight">George Speight</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090304032726/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1777977.htm">(ABC News Australia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Barker" title="Bob Barker">Bob Barker</a>, longtime host of the American game show <i><a href="/wiki/The_Price_Is_Right" title="The Price Is Right">The Price Is Right</a></i>, announces he will retire in June 2007 after hosting the program since <a href="/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/31/tv.bobbarker.retires.ap/index.html">(CNN.com)</a></li> <li>Rockstar's <a href="/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City_Stories" title="Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories">Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories</a> was released.</li></ul></div></div></div> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:250px"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1053509144">.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar{clear:right;max-width:350px;width:100%;margin:auto;padding:0.2em;font-size:88%;line-height:1.5;border-spacing:3px;border:1px solid #cedff2;text-align:center;background-color:#f5faff;color:black}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar tbody a{font-weight:bold;width:100%;display:inline-block}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar-archive{margin:8px 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar caption{font-weight:bold;background-color:#cedff2;line-height:1.6;padding:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar caption span:first-child{float:left;width:calc(14% + 6px)}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar caption span:last-child{float:right;width:calc(14% + 6px)}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar th{width:14%}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar-footer td{padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:5px;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .current-events-calendar-footer td a{font-weight:normal;width:initial}</style><table class="current-events-calendar current-events-calendar-archive"><caption><span class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Current_events/September_2006" title="Portal:Current events/September 2006">◀</a></span><span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">October 2006</a></span><span class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Current_events/November_2006" title="Portal:Current events/November 2006">▶</a></span></caption><tbody><tr><th>S</th><th>M</th><th>T</th><th>W</th><th>T</th><th>F</th><th>S</th></tr><tr><td><a href="#2006_October_1">1</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_2">2</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_3">3</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_4">4</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_5">5</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_6">6</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_7">7</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="#2006_October_8">8</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_9">9</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_10">10</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_11">11</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_12">12</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_13">13</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_14">14</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="#2006_October_15">15</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_16">16</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_17">17</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_18">18</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_19">19</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_20">20</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_21">21</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="#2006_October_22">22</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_23">23</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_24">24</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_25">25</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_26">26</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_27">27</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_28">28</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="#2006_October_29">29</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_30">30</a></td><td><a href="#2006_October_31">31</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" width="250" style="border:2px solid #cedff2;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 133%; background-color: #cedff2; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px"> <th>Events </th></tr> <tr style="background-color: #f5faff;"> <td> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ongoing">Ongoing</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/October_2006/Sidebar&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: Ongoing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Global_spread_of_H5N1" title="Global spread of H5N1">Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bloed-Bodem-Eer_en_Trouw" class="mw-redirect" title="Bloed-Bodem-Eer en Trouw">Belgian False Flag Terror arrests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI_Islam_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy">Benedict XVI Islam controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_site" title="Black site">Black sites scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cole_Inquiry" title="Cole Inquiry">Cole Inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_East_Timor_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 East Timor crisis">East Timor military and political crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States">Immigration law debates in the US</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Iran and weapons of mass destruction">Iran's nuclear program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="NSA warrantless surveillance controversy">NSA warrantless surveillance controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Puerto_doping_case" title="Operación Puerto doping case">Operación Puerto doping case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Million_Voices_Against_Corruption,_President_Chen_Must_Go" title="Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go">Taiwan political crisis</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Natural_disasters">Natural disasters</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/October_2006/Sidebar&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Natural disasters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="2006 Atlantic hurricane season">Atlantic hurricane season</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Isaac" title="2006 Atlantic hurricane season">Hurricane Isaac</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Indian_cyclone_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 North Indian cyclone season">North Indian cyclone season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season" title="2006 Pacific hurricane season">Pacific hurricane season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pacific_typhoon_season" title="2006 Pacific typhoon season">Pacific typhoon season</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pacific_typhoon_season#Typhoon_Xangsane_(Milenyo)" title="2006 Pacific typhoon season">Typhoon Xangsane</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_Southern_Hemisphere_tropical_cyclone_season" title="2006–07 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season">Southern Hemisphere cyclone season</a></li></ul> <p><small class="editlink noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="float:right"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/October_2006/Sidebar&action=edit">edit sidebar</a></small> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" width="250" style="border:2px solid #cedff2;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 133%; background-color: #cedff2; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px"> <th><a href="/wiki/Deaths_in_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Deaths in 2006">Deaths</a> </th></tr> <tr style="background-color: #f5faff;"> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Osgood" title="Peter Osgood">Peter Osgood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2" title="October 2">2</a>: <a href="/wiki/Helen_Chenoweth-Hage" title="Helen Chenoweth-Hage">Helen Chenoweth-Hage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Norman" title="Peter Norman">Peter Norman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_4" title="October 4">4</a>: <a href="/wiki/R.W._Apple,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="R.W. Apple, Jr.">R.W. Apple, Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">6</a>: <a href="/wiki/Buck_O%27Neil" title="Buck O'Neil">Buck O'Neil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">7</a>: <a href="/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya" title="Anna Politkovskaya">Anna Politkovskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Hunter_(snooker_player)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Hunter (snooker player)">Paul Hunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Myernick" title="Glenn Myernick">Glenn Myernick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">11</a>: <a href="/wiki/Cory_Lidle" title="Cory Lidle">Cory Lidle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">12</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gillo_Pontecorvo" title="Gillo Pontecorvo">Gillo Pontecorvo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">14</a>: <a href="/wiki/Freddy_Fender" title="Freddy Fender">Freddy Fender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">14</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Studds" title="Gerry Studds">Gerry Studds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_16" title="October 16">16</a>: <a href="/wiki/Valent%C3%ADn_Paniagua" title="Valentín Paniagua">Valentín Paniagua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_16" title="October 16">16</a>: <a href="/wiki/Lister_Sinclair" title="Lister Sinclair">Lister Sinclair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">17</a>: <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Glenn" title="Christopher Glenn">Christopher Glenn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_19" title="October 19">19</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Harris,_Baron_Harris_of_High_Cross" title="Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross">Ralph Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_20" title="October 20">20</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eric_Newby" title="Eric Newby">Eric Newby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_20" title="October 20">20</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jane_Wyatt" title="Jane Wyatt">Jane Wyatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_21" title="October 21">21</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Walters" title="Paul Walters">Paul Walters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">22</a>: <a href="/wiki/Choi_Kyu-hah" title="Choi Kyu-hah">Choi Kyu-hah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_26" title="October 26">26</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pontus_Hult%C3%A9n" title="Pontus Hultén">Pontus Hultén</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_27" title="October 27">27</a>: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Niekro" title="Joe Niekro">Joe Niekro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">28</a>: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fok" title="Henry Fok">Henry Fok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">28</a>: <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">28</a>: <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Berbick" title="Trevor Berbick">Trevor Berbick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">29</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mohammadu_Maccido" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammadu Maccido">Mohammadu Maccido</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">29</a>: <a href="/wiki/Si_Simmons" class="mw-redirect" title="Si Simmons">Si Simmons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_30" title="October 30">30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Geertz" title="Clifford Geertz">Clifford Geertz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_31" title="October 31">31</a>: <a href="/wiki/P.W._Botha" class="mw-redirect" title="P.W. Botha">P.W. Botha</a></li></ul> <p><small class="editlink noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="float:right"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/October_2006/Sidebar&action=edit">edit sidebar</a></small> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" width="250" style="border:2px solid #cedff2;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 133%; background-color: #cedff2; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px"> <th>Armed conflicts </th></tr> <tr style="background-color: #f5faff;"> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army" title="Lord's Resistance Army">Acholiland insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab-Israeli_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab-Israeli conflict">Arab-Israeli conflict</a> (<a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Intifada">al-Aqsa Intifada</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Israel-Gaza_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Israel-Gaza conflict">2006 Israel-Gaza conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict">2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darfur_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Darfur conflict">Darfur conflict</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">Sri Lankan Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ituri_conflict" title="Ituri conflict">Ituri conflict</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Transitional_Government_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo">DR Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Ivorian_Civil_War" title="First Ivorian Civil War">Ivorian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepal_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Nepal Civil War">Nepal Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Chechen_War" title="Second Chechen War">Second Chechen War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency" title="South Thailand insurgency">South Thailand insurgency</a></li></ul> <p><small class="editlink noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="float:right"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/October_2006/Sidebar&action=edit">edit sidebar</a></small> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" width="250" style="border:2px solid #cedff2;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 133%; background-color: #cedff2; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px"> <th><a href="/wiki/Electoral_calendar_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral calendar 2006">Elections</a> </th></tr> <tr style="background-color: #f5faff;"> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Austria" title="Elections in Austria">Austria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austrian_legislative_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Austrian legislative election, 2006">Legislative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_general_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina general election, 2006">General Election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Brazil" title="Elections in Brazil">Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_general_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Brazilian general elections, 2006">General Election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">7</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Latvia" title="Elections in Latvia">Latvia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latvian_parliamentary_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Latvian parliamentary election, 2006">Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_8" title="October 8">8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Belgium" title="Elections in Belgium">Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belgian_municipal_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgian municipal elections, 2006">Municipal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Greece" title="Elections in Greece">Greece</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greek_local_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek local elections, 2006">Municipal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Ecuador" title="Elections in Ecuador">Ecuador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ecuadorian_general_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecuadorian general election, 2006">General Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">22</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Bulgaria" title="Elections in Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_presidential_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian presidential election, 2006">President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">22</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Panama" title="Elections in Panama">Panama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_referendum,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006">Panama Canal expansion Referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">28</a>, <a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">29</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Serbia" title="Elections in Serbia">Serbia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbian_constitutional_referendum,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian constitutional referendum, 2006">Referendum on Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Brazil" title="Elections in Brazil">Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_General_Elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Brazilian General Elections, 2006">General Elections</a> (2nd round)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_general_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2006">Presidential</a> Run-off</li></ul> <p><small class="editlink noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="float:right"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/October_2006/Sidebar&action=edit">edit sidebar</a></small> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" width="250" style="border:2px solid #cedff2;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 133%; background-color: #cedff2; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px"> <th>Trials </th></tr> <tr style="background-color: #f5faff;"> <td> <ul><li>Peru: <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori" title="Alberto Fujimori">Alberto Fujimori</a> (extradition)</li> <li>Chile: <a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Augusto Pinochet</a></li> <li>Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the <a href="/wiki/Coalition_for_Unity_and_Democracy" title="Coalition for Unity and Democracy">CUD</a> and journalists, on charges related to the <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_general_elections,_2005" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopian general elections, 2005">2005 elections</a>.</li> <li>Iraq: <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Special_Tribunal" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Special Tribunal">Iraqi Special Tribunal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein" title="Trial of Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a> & military chiefs of staff</li></ul></li> <li>Netherlands: <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">ICC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lubanga" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Lubanga">Thomas Lubanga</a></li></ul></li> <li>Netherlands: <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_the_former_Yugoslavia" title="International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia">ICTY</a></li> <li>Sierra Leone: <a href="/wiki/Special_Court_for_Sierra_Leone" title="Special Court for Sierra Leone">SCfSL</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_G._Taylor" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles G. Taylor">Charles Taylor</a></li></ul></li> <li>UK: <a href="/wiki/O%27Connor_-_Keogh_official_secrets_trial" class="mw-redirect" title="O'Connor - Keogh official secrets trial">Leo O'Connor & David Keogh</a></li> <li>U.S.: <a href="/wiki/Brian_Nichols" title="Brian Nichols">Brian Nichols</a></li> <li>U.S.: <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling" title="Jeffrey Skilling">Jeffrey Skilling</a> (sentencing)</li> <li>U.S.: <a href="/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay">Tom DeLay</a></li></ul> <p><small class="editlink noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="float:right"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/October_2006/Sidebar&action=edit">edit sidebar</a></small> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" width="250" style="border:2px solid #cedff2;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 133%; background-color: #cedff2; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px"> <th>Holidays and observances </th></tr> <tr style="background-color: #f5faff;"> 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Australia</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">3</a>: <a href="/wiki/German_Unity_Day" title="German Unity Day">German Unity Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_4" title="October 4">4</a>: <a href="/wiki/World_Animal_Day" title="World Animal Day">World Animal Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_5" title="October 5">5</a>: <a href="/wiki/World_Teachers%27_Day" title="World Teachers' Day">World Teachers' Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_5" title="October 5">5</a>: <a href="/wiki/Republic_Day" title="Republic Day">Republic Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">6</a>: <a href="/wiki/German-American_Day" title="German-American Day">German-American Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">6</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival" title="Mid-Autumn Festival">Mid-Autumn Festival</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese lunar calendar</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">6</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sukkot" title="Sukkot">Sukkot</a> begins at sunset <small>(<a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hangul_Day" title="Hangul Day">Hangul Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Health_and_Sports_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Health and Sports Day">Health and Sports Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving" title="Thanksgiving">Thanksgiving</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Leif_Erikson_Day" title="Leif Erikson Day">Leif Erikson Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Columbus_Day" title="Columbus Day">Columbus Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_10" title="October 10">10</a>: <a href="/wiki/Double_Tenth_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Double Tenth Day">Double Tenth Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">11</a>: <a href="/wiki/General_Pulaski_Memorial_Day" title="General Pulaski Memorial Day">General Pulaski Memorial Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">11</a>: <a href="/wiki/National_Coming_Out_Day" title="National Coming Out Day">National Coming Out Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">12</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic Day">Hispanic Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">12</a>: <a href="/wiki/D%C3%ADa_de_la_Resistencia_Ind%C3%ADgena" class="mw-redirect" title="Día de la Resistencia Indígena">Day of Indigenous Resistance</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">12</a>: <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Day" title="Children's Day">Children's Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">12</a>: <a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Aparecida" title="Our Lady of Aparecida">Our Lady Aparecida's Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_13" title="October 13">13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shemini_Atzeret" title="Shemini Atzeret">Shemini Atzeret</a> begins at sunset <small>(<a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">14</a>: <a href="/wiki/Simchat_Torah" title="Simchat Torah">Simchat Torah</a> begins at sunset <small>(<a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">14</a>: <a href="/wiki/Teachers%27_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Teachers' Day">Teachers' Day</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">15</a>: <a href="/wiki/White_Cane_Safety_Day" title="White Cane Safety Day">White Cane Safety Day</a> 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