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Global News Archive for November 2006:
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U.S. Offers Reward for Help in Finding Missing Soldier
The U.S. military announced a $50,000 reward to find Specialist Ahmed Kousay al-Taie who was abducted nearly three weeks ago...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
U.N. Meets With Junta and Dissident
A U.N. envoy met in Myanmar with the military junta leader and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi about human rights and political freedoms...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
U.S. Vetoes Security Council Resolution Assailing Israel for Attacks
The resolution condemned Israel for its military actions in Gaza and called for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
Talks Collapse in Lebanon as Shiites Vacate the Cabinet
Lebanon was thrown into a political crisis when talks broke down over giving Hezbollah and its political allies greater control of the government...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
China?s Muslims Awake to Nexus of Needles and AIDS
Chinese authorities are struggling to confront an increase in intravenous drug use and a rise in AIDS cases in an overwhelmingly Muslim region in China...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
Sectarian Rifts Foretell Pitfalls of Iraqi Troops’ Taking Control
With its volatile mix of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, Diyala is emerging as a crucial strategic territory...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
SNP seeks to alter Queen's Speech
The SNP will try to make an amendment to the Queen's Speech to force a vote on withdrawing troops from Iraq...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
India bullish on disputed glacier
India's army rules out a compromise with Pakistan over the disputed Siachen glacier...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Twelve dead in Iraqi bus ambush
At least 12 people die as gunmen ambush minibuses in Iraq, hours after bombs in a Baghdad market killed eight...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Rugby: Ireland beat Springboks
Impressive Ireland beat South Africa in the autumn test at Lansdowne Road...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
UN official sees Burma's Suu Kyi
Detained Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells a UN envoy she wants more regular medical visits...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
US vetoes motion on Gaza attack
The US blocks a draft UN resolution condemning an Israeli attack that killed 18 Palestinian civilians in Gaza...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Terror trials shake-up demanded
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair says changes are needed to the law to speed up terror trials...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Blair in Iraq talks with US panel
The prime minister is to give evidence to a US task force looking at policy in Iraq, sparking a row...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Swede prepares for critical mission
Christer Fuglesang, the first Swede to go into orbit, will undertake essential construction work on the space station...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Funeral service for Nimrod victim
Hundreds of people attend the funeral of one of 14 men killed when an RAF Nimrod crashed in Afghanistan...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Arrests after serious sex assault
Several people are questioned and a hotel is cordoned off after allegations of a serious sex attack in west Wales...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Woman clue in sex offender hunt
A 52-year-old sex offender on the run in Greater Manchester may be with a woman who visited him in hospital...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Victim lies injured for 15 hours
A pensioner injured by burglars at his Belfast home manages to raise the alarm after lying for 15 hours...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Hezbollah ministers quit cabinet
Five Shia ministers including two from Hezbollah leave the Lebanese cabinet after power-sharing talks end...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Chants as Turks bury ex-PM Ecevit
Crowds shout pro-secular slogans during the funeral of Turkey's staunchly secular former leader Bulent Ecevit...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
UN official meets Burma's Suu Kyi
A top UN envoy meets Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as part of a mission to press for democratic reform...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Football: Drogba fires Chelsea
In-form Didier Drogba fires a brilliant hat-trick as champions Chelsea outclass Watford at Stamford Bridge...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Clashes erupt in DR Congo capital
Clashes erupt between security forces and supporters of a presidential candidate in DR Congo...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
England slump to Argentina
England crash to their seventh straight Test defeat in an error-strewn display against Argentina at Twickenham...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Coin thrower injures Cup official
An official is in hospital after being hit by a coin thrown from the crowd at the Welsh derby FA Cup clash...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Nazi graffiti daubed on memorial
Vandals daub a swastika and anti-Semitic graffiti on a war memorial in a West Sussex town...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Two killed as wave strikes tanker
Two men die and a third is airlifted to hospital after being hit by a huge wave on an oil tanker...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
US students sue over Borat film
Two US students sue a film studio claiming they were duped into appearing in Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat movie...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
PlayStation 3 sells out at launch
The long-awaited Playstation 3 console sells out in Japanese stores after gamers queued for hours to get one...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Disputes over poppy day services
Disputes over the way people in Wales remember their war dead emerge as the nation marks Armistice Day...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Bill to link pension and earnings
The government will set out to restore the link between pensions and earnings in a bill in the Queen's Speech...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Shop destroyed in suspected arson
A shop is destroyed, and other properties evacuated, as a suspicious fire engulfs a building in Antrim...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Silence remembers Armistice Day
A two-minute silence is observed at events across Scotland as the country remembers its war dead...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Turks bid goodbye to ex-PM Ecevit
People turn out in force in Ankara for the funeral of former Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Abbas upbeat on Palestinian unity
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says a unity government could be formed by December...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
GB thumped in record loss
Britain's Tri-Nations hopes suffer a major blow as New Zealand sweep to a six-try win in Wellington...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Eight dead as bombs hit Baghdad
Two bombs explode in a crowded market in central Baghdad, killing eight people, Iraqi security officials say...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Kylie returns to stage in Sydney
Pop star Kylie Minogue returns to the stage for the first time following treatment for breast cancer...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Silence honours nation's war dead
A two-minute silence is observed as events are held across Britain to remember its war dead...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
At Dusty Outpost in Iraq, Cake Is Cut for Marines Young and Not So Young
The Marine Corps celebrated its 231st birthday, an essential ritual that reminds marines that they are part of an outfit that is older than the nation it serves...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
The Saturday Profile: A Royal Emirati Whose Career Fuels Young Women’s Dreams
As the United Arab Emirates’s first woman minister, Sheika Lubna al-Qassimi towers as one of the country’s most influential women...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
Military Team Undertakes a Broad Review of the Iraq War and the Campaign Against Terror
Pentagon officials stressed that the review extended well beyond Iraq, and that some unorthodox ideas were being weighed...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
Egyptian Says He Was Tortured After Being Kidnapped in Milan
A militant Egyptian cleric, who prosecutors say was kidnapped by the C.I.A., says he was tortured in a Cairo prison...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
Under Heavy Police Guard, Gay Rights Advocates Rally in Jerusalem
Jerusalem’s gay community held a small, orderly rally under a heavy police guard of 3,000 that was nearly as large as the rally itself...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
Blair Says Homegrown Terrorism Is Generation-Long Struggle
The British leader was reinforcing a warning by the MI5 chief, who said 1,600 suspects were under surveillance...
New York Times - November 11, 2006
A way all children can be readers
The BBC's Mike Baker on why a successful scheme for struggling readers is not more widespread...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Pressure 'predicts heart outcome'
A simple blood pressure measurement can predict a heart failure patient's chance of recovery, a study finds...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Rumsfeld may face abuse charges
Ex-US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may face criminal charges in Germany over alleged prisoner abuses...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Somali Islamists 'in peace deal'
Somalia's Islamist leaders say they have agreed a deal to avoid hostilities with the transitional government...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
China village fury at 'land grab'
Thousands of Chinese villagers clash with police after a blockade protest over alleged illegal land grabs...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Srebrenica mass grave found
A new mass grave with more than 100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre is found in Bosnia...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Archbishop attacks public atheism
The Archbishop of York condemns what he calls the systematic erosion of Christianity from public life...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Condom call for young 'on pull'
Young adults are urged to carry condoms when they are "on the pull", in a £4m government health campaign...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
UK silence to mark Armistice Day
A two-minute silence will be observed at 1100 GMT as events are held across Britain to remember its war dead...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
Tougher race hate laws considered
Ministers consider tightening race hate laws after the BNP leader is cleared of charges over speeches he made...
BBC News - November 11, 2006
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