Events in November 2006
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Nov. 1
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The former South African President, Nelson Mandela, is presented with the Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award. |
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Nov. 4
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A two-day historic China-Africa summit involving 40 African countries begins in Beijing. |
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Nov. 5
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An Iraqi tribunal sentences to death former President Saddam Hussein. |
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The Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega wins Nicaragua Presidential polls. |
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Nov. 7
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The Republicans lose heavily in U.S. midterm polls. Democrat Keith Ellison becomes the first Muslim to win a Congress seat. |
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Nov. 8
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The Democrats capture power in the U.S. Congress. Donald H. Rumsfeld steps down as Defence Secretary. |
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The WHO nominates Margaret Chan as its next Director-General. |
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The Senate majority also goes to the Democrats. |
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Nov. 10
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Nadarajah Raviraj, pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance MP is shot dead by assailants near his residence in Colombo. |
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Nov. 15
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The Pakistan National Assembly adopts the Women’s Protection Bill, 2006 after amending the Hudood Ordinances, criminalising rape under the civil penal code. |
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President Joseph Kabila is declared winner of the Democratic Republic of Congo presidential run-off of October 29. |
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Nov. 17
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The U.S. Senate approves legislation to implement the India U.S. civilian nuclear deal. |
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Nov. 18
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Actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes exchange wedding vows at the Odescalchi castle on the shores of Lake Bracciano in Italy. |
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Nov. 21
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The Nepalese Government and the Communist Party of India (Nepal) sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement declaring the end of the 11-year-old insurgency that has claimed over 13,000 lives. |
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The Lebanese Industry Minister, Pierre Gemayel, is assassinated in a northern Beirut suburb. |
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Nov. 23
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At least 202 people are killed in a spate of car bombings in two markets and a prominent square in Sadr City, Shia stronghold on the edge of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. |
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Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy dies of suspected radioactive poisoning in a London hospital after battling for life for a week. |
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Nov. 26
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Rafael Correa, a Leftist economist wins Ecuador Presidential polls. |
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert agrees for a ceasefire. |
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Nov. 27
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The Ceasefire Agreement has become defunct and negotitations are a thing of the past, says the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran, in his ‘Heroes Day’ address in Kilinochchi. |
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Nov. 30
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Supertyphoon Durian leaves at least 1,000 persons dead and 300 missing in mountainside villages of Philippines. |
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