Events in February 2006
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Feb. 3
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Over 1,300 people are killed after an Egyptian cruise liner sinks in the Red Sea between Duba in Saudi Arabia and Safaga in Egypt. |
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Feb. 4
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The IAEA votes to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council at the Board of Governors meeting in Vienna. |
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India backs resolution. |
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At least 73 persons are killed and 400 injured in a stampede at a stadium in Pasig city near the Philippines capital Manila, the venue of “Wowowee”, a popular game show. |
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New Delhi and Manila sign a defence accord after President Abdul Kalam holds talks with his Filipino counterpart Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. |
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Protesters set afire the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Syria reacting to the publication of a series of cartoons on the Prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten by Kurt Westergaard. |
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Feb. 5
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Iran stops cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
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Feb. 6
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Stephen Harper is sworn in Canadian Prime Minister. |
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Feb. 7
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Haitians cast ballots in the country’s first Presidential election in nearly six years. |
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New Delhi and Seoul agree to conclude economic agreement by 2007 on the occasion of the first ever visit by an Indian Head of State to South Korea. |
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Feb. 9
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The 56th Berlin International Film Festival opens to great fanfare with the world premiere of Snow Cake. |
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Feb. 10
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A new tomb is discovered in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, the first since the 1922 unravelling of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. |
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Feb. 11
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U.S. Adventurer Steve Fossett completes the longest non-stop flight in aviation history after flying around the globe in roughly 80 hours. |
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Feb. 12
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Sophiatown once dubbed the Harlem of South Africa and named Triomf by the apartheid regime gets back old name. |
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Feb. 13
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The Nepal Supreme Court dissolves the Royal Commission for Corruption Control and orders release of former Premier Sher Bahadur Deuba. |
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Feb. 15
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The French President Jacques Chirac orders home the asbestos laden ship Clemenceau bound for India. |
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Pakistan ratifies the South Asia Free Trade Agreement. |
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The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, pushes through law against “glorifying terrorism”. |
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Feb. 16
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Rene Preval is declared elected Haiti President. |
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Feb. 17
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Over 1,800 people, including 300 children are killed in a mud slide in the Filipino village of Guinsaugon on Leyte island. |
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The Thar Express linking Rajasthan with the Sindh province in Pakistan is flagged off from Karachi cantonment station. It is the first direct link between southern Pakistan and India. |
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Feb. 18
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A Palestinian Parliament dominated by the Hamas in sworn in in Ramallah. Aziz Dweik is appointed Speaker. |
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France signs a Rs. 700 crore deal with Kingfisher Airlines for 15 aircraft, in Thailand in the presence of President, Jacques Chirac. |
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Feb. 19
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Israel freezes contacts with the Palestinian Authority and puts a block on the transfer of funds. Hamas names Ismail Haniyeh to be the next Palestinian Prime Minister. |
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Feb. 20
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The British Nazi apologist and revisionist historian David Irving is jailed for three years for his 1989 speech calling for an end to the “gas chambers fairy tale, following a trial in Austria. |
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Feb. 22
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Four armed men bomb the 1,000-year-old Al-Askari mosque, which houses the tombs of two Shia Imams, in the Iraqi city of Samarra. Fortysix persons, including three journalists killed in sectarian violence. |
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The Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE commence peace talks on the outskirts of Geneva. |
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Feb. 23
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Gunmen kill 47 factory workers after pulling them out of buses near Baquba not far from Baghdad. |
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Ugandans cast ballots in landmark presidential and parliamentary polls. |
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Feb. 24
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The Thai Premier, Thaksin Shinawatra, calls for snap polls a year after winning a massive parliamentary majority. |
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The Philippines President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares emergency after a coup plot is crushed. |
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Feb. 25
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Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, wins the nation’s first multi-party polls since 1980. |
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Feb. 27
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The World Court at The Hague begins hearing into the State sponsored genocide of non-Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. |
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There is no evidence of Tehran having diverted material for making nuclear weapons, says the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
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Taiwan decides to cease the function of National Unification Council. |
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