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Global News Archive for December 2006:
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Military Analysis: New Iraq Strategy Emerges: Security, Then Politics
Proponents of a U.S. troop increase maintain that Iraq?s leader cannot rein in the Shiite militias until some semblance of security is restored...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Bush Says Victory in Iraq Is Still Possible
President Bush warned today that the war in Iraq would require ?difficult choices,? but he vowed the U.S. would not be ?run out of the Middle East? by extremists...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Lord arrested after air incident
Former lord advocate Lord Fraser is charged with disorderly conduct on an aircraft which landed at Dundee Airport...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Armed police at farmhouse 'siege'
Firearms officers and negotiators surround a home in a normally quiet rural hamlet in what appears to be a stand-off...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Rail station death pair sentenced
Two directors of a maintenance firm are convicted of the manslaughter of a York academic killed on a moving walkway...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Spain rejects 'dirty war' trial
Spain rules against trying an Argentine "dirty war" suspect, inviting Argentina to call for his extradition instead...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Football: Chelsea reach semis
Didier Drogba comes off the bench to fire Chelsea into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Somalia rivals 'to resume talks'
Somalia's interim government and rival Islamists agree to resume peace talks and cease hostilities, an EU envoy says...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Ashton vows to stick to his guns
Brian Ashton promises to stay true to his principles of entertaining rugby following his appointment as England's new head coach...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Fish ministers in marathon talks
EU ministers brace for lengthy talks to set quotas for 2007 after a revised proposal from the European Commission...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Inquiry call on 'suspect in veil'
Opposition MPs demand an inquiry into claims a suspect in Pc Sharon Beshenivsky's murder fled the UK in a woman's veil...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
BA grounds all domestic flights
British Airways is to cancel all UK domestic services from Heathrow on Thursday following severe fog...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Memo From Rome: A Poet Crusades for the Right to Die His Way
Piergiorgio Welby may be changing the way Italy thinks about euthanasia and other choices for the sick to end their own lives...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Bush Concedes Iraq War More Difficult Than He Expected
The president said the ?extremists and radicals? behind the bombing and attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq ?can?t run us out of the Middle East.?...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Top Shiite Cleric Is Said to Favor a Coalition for Iraq
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has tentatively approved a U.S.-backed plan that aims to isolate extremists, officials say...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Cowell unveils Grease talent show
X-Factor judge Simon Cowell secures the rights to a show seeking leads for a new stage version of Grease...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
'Virgin births' for giant lizards
Scientists report two cases where female Komodo dragons have produced offspring - despite no male contact...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
House prices 'to be 15% higher'
UK house prices could be 15% higher by the end of 2007, say forecasters at Lombard Street Research...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Lord Fraser arrested at airport
Former lord advocate Lord Fraser is charged after reports of a disturbance on an aircraft which landed at Dundee Airport...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
'Shots fired' in village incident
Firearms officers and police
negotiators are at an ongoing incident in Llangeitho, Ceredigion, which followed a property dispute...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Official 'divulged state secrets'
A man appears in court accused of passing secret information "prejudicial to the state"...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Sinn Fein drops second politician
A second Sinn Fein assembly member in Newry and Armagh has been de-selected, the BBC learns...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
US seeks 'better Venezuela ties'
Venezuela's US ambassador says relations could continue to improve despite deep political differences...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Turks acquitted over Chomsky book
Four Turks are acquitted of insulting "Turkishness" in translating a book by US writer Noam Chomsky...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Gaza truce holds despite violence
A Gaza ceasefire between Hamas and Fatah holds, despite the deaths of two Fatah security men...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Heavy fighting erupts in Somalia
Fighting breaks out close to the Somali government's base in Baidoa during an EU envoy's peace mission...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Football: Mourinho 'dive' apology
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho apologises for saying that Everton striker Andrew Johnson is a diver...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
MP intervened in Cheeky case
MP Lembit Opik intervened over threats to deport his Cheeky Girl friend, the Liberal Democrats confirm...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Family jailed over bully deaths
A teenager and her parents are jailed for killing the mother and father of a fellow pupil in a bullying row...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Hard Iraq choices loom - Bush
US President George W Bush says the conflict in Iraq will require "difficult choices and additional sacrifices" in 2007...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Suspect veil claim 'speculation'
A man wanted over the murder of a Bradford PC may have fled dressed as a veiled Muslim woman, say reports...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Police gain more time to quiz man
Police gain more time to question a suspect about the deaths of five women killed in Suffolk...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Fog causes Heathrow flight chaos
Severe fog grounds hundreds of UK flights, including all British Airways domestic services to and from Heathrow...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Probe targets 17 football transfers
The Premier League targets 17 football transfers which need investigation after an inquiry into illegal payments...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
BBC moves to file-sharing sites
The commercial arm of the BBC announces a tie-up with file-sharing company Azureus to distribute titles in the US...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Eminem divorces for second time
Rap star Eminem and wife Kim agree to share custody of daughter Hailie after their marriage fails again...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
PM calls for alliance over Iran
Moderate Muslim states should form an alliance to counter Iran and challenge its influence, Tony Blair urges...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Low turnout for obesity testing
Just half of children have taken part in a national programme to test whether those aged five and 11 are overweight...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
NHS dental places 'still limited'
Research by BBC Wales finds five of 22 local health boards are unable to offer new NHS dentist places...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Delivery guard robbed at gunpoint
Masked men escape with a considerable amount of cash after robbing a cash delivery guard...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Life term for Indian model killer
The son of a governing party politician in India is sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a model...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Baghdad suicide car bomb kills 11
A suicide car bomber kills at least 11 people and injures about 30 others in Baghdad, Iraqi officials say...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
EU tackles aircraft CO2 emissions
The European Commission proposes capping the greenhouse gases airlines can emit from 2011...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
US 'tables North Korea proposal'
The US offers a "concrete proposal" to end North Korea's nuclear plans, South Korea's Yonhap agency says...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Two killed in Brazil prison riot
Two people are killed and several others are wounded in a prison riot in southern Brazil, officials say...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Football: Saha signs new contract
Striker Louis Saha signs a contract extension to keep him at Man Utd until 2010...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Nigerian vigilante leaders freed
A Nigerian court frees leaders of a banned ethnic vigilante group saying it has no jurisdiction to try them...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Organist wins Whiter Shade battle
Original Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher wins a High Court case over who wrote A Whiter Shade of Pale...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Rugby: Ashton gets top job
Brian Ashton is appointed as England's rugby union head coach with immediate effect...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
New US defence secretary in Iraq
The new US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is in Baghdad to assess troop levels just two days after taking office...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Mortgage lending hits new record
Mortgage lending rose again in November to an all-time record level, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Holocaust denier to be released
UK historian David Irving, jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, is to be released on probation...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Fighting reported in Somalia
Fighting breaks out close to the Somali interim government's base in Baidoa during a EU envoy's peace mission...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Stevens to reveal bung findings
The results of a nine-month inquiry into illegal payments in football transfers are due to be made public...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Teen murder jury discharged
An Old Bailey jury trying a teenager accused of murdering young footballer Kiyan Prince is discharged...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Prostitute deaths inquests open
Inquests into the deaths of four Suffolk murder victims are adjourned, as police continue questioning two men...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
China Tightens Adoption Rules for Foreigners
China plans to bar people who fail to meet certain benchmarks in financial, physical or psychological health from adopting Chinese children...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Military Role in U.S. Embassies Creates Strains, Report Says
The report found that some embassies have effectively become command posts, with military personnel all but supplanting the role of ambassadors...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Street Battles by 2 Factions Leave 5 Dead in Gaza
Hamas and Fatah said that they had reached a new agreement to remove gunmen from the streets...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Libya Sentences 6 to Die in H.I.V. Case
The verdict drew expressions of anger and alarm from Bulgaria and its supporters in the eight-year-old case...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Military Analysis: New Iraq Strategy Emerges: First Security, Then Politics
Proponents of an American troop increase maintain that Iraq?s prime minister cannot rein in the Shiite militias until some semblance of security is restored...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Top Iraqi Shiite Cleric Is Inching Toward a Coalition
The American-backed coalition of Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties aims to isolate extremists, officials say...
New York Times - December 20, 2006
Thai shares rebound after crash
The Thai stock market gains 9% after investment rules are eased, a day after seeing its worst slump for 16 years...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Inquiry into sex grooming cases
A major investigation is under way into the sexual abuse of as many as 20 girls in Oldham, some as young as 12...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
New bird flu outbreak in Vietnam
Vietnam confirms the death of some 6,000 domestic poultry from bird flu, after being free of human cases for a year...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
EU to tackle aircraft emissions
The EU will include airlines in its Emissions Trading Scheme, capping the greenhouse gases they can emit...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Pair held over women's deaths
Police continue to quiz two men arrested over the deaths of five prostitutes found dead in Suffolk...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Wanted man may have fled in veil
A man wanted over the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky may have fled dressed as a veiled Muslim woman, say reports...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
Bush 'brainwashed' Blair on Iraq
The Iraqi vice-president says Tony Blair was "brainwashed" by President Bush over the troop withdrawal from Iraq...
BBC News - December 20, 2006
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