Events in December 2006
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Dec. 1
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The Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, younger brother of President, Mahindra Rajapaksa, escapes bid on life after a suicide bomber rams a three x wheeler into the convoy in Colombo. |
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The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf signs the Women’s Protection Bill 2006 into law. |
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The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton resigns. |
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Dec. 3
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Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez wins a third term as President. |
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Dec. 5
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Fiji’s military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama stages a bloodless coup, dismisses Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. |
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Dec 6
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Jona Baravilala Senilagakali is appointed Fiji’s interim Prime Minister . |
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Dec. 7
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Joseph Kabila is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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The Fiji Parliament is dissolved and emergency declared. |
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Dec. 8
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The Commonwealth suspends Fiji. |
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Dec. 9
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The U.S. Congress approves overwhelmingly a landmark legislation allowing nuclear trade with New Delhi after 32 years. |
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The U.S. shuttle Discovery blasts off with seven astronauts, including Sunita Williams, on board from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida on a 12-day repair mission to the International Space Station. |
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Iran expands uranium enrichment programmes and starts work on installing 3,000 centrifuges. |
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Dec. 10
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The Bangladesh President Sajuddin Ahmed orders deployment of army in aid of the civil administration. |
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“Poverty is a threat to peace,” says the micro-credit pioneer Muhammed Yunus of Bangladesh after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. |
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Dec. 14
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“India commitment to universal nuclear disarmament is unshaken,” says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing a joint sitting of Japan’s Parliament. |
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South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon is sworn in eighth UN Secretary - General. |
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The death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997 is a “tragic accident”, says a British enquiry. |
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Bhutan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuk abdicates the throne after a 34-year reign in favour of his son Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk. |
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Dec. 15
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India and Japan announce a Special Economic Partnership Initiative after Manmohan Singh - Shinzo Abe talks in Tokyo. |
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Dec. 16
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Nepal’s Seven Party Alliance and Maoist leaders sign the interim Constitution’s final draft transferring all powers of the King to the Prime Minister. |
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The first-ever elections in the United Arab Emirates since independence in 1971 begin. |
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Dec. 18
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The U.S. President, George W. Bush, signs the Henry J. Hyde United States - India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006. |
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North Korea declares itself a nuclear power and demands lifting of sanctions at the opening of the six-party talks in Beijing. |
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Dec. 19
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British police arrest for Stephen Wright for the serial killings of five women whose bodies were found in Ipswich town between Dec. 2 and 13. |
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Dec. 21
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Turkmenistan’s authoritarian President - for - life Saparmurat Niyazov (66), dies of cardiac arrest. |
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Dec. 22
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The U.S. space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts return to Earth. |
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Dec. 23
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The Security Council imposes the first-ever United Nations sanctions on Iran. |
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Dec. 26
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An Iraqi appeals court rules former President Saddam Hussein should be hanged for crimes against humanity. |
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At least 200 people are killed as an oil pipeline explodes in the Nigerian city of Lagos. |
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Dec. 30
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The former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein is hanged to death in Baghdad for the 1982 killing of 148 persons of Dujail town, three years after being captured by the U.S. forces. |
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Over 600 people are feared killed as an Indonesian ferry sinks in a storm off the coast of Java. |
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Dec. 31
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The U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan, demits office. |
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