Events in June 2006
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Jun. 1
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The Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, hands over Government control to the Premier Su Tseng-chang. |
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The toll in the Indonesian earthquake soars to 6,234 and the number of injured touches 46,000. |
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Jun. 3
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Montenegro’s Parliament proclaims independence forming a new European State. |
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Jun. 4
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Peruvians cast votes in presidential polls. |
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Jun. 5
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Alan Garcia is declared winner of Peruvian presidential election defeating radical nationalist Ollanta Humala. |
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Former Tourism Minister, Pita Nacuva, is elected Fiji Parliament Speaker, Niko Nawaikula is the Deputy Speaker. |
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Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji is given the World Editors Forum’s Golden Pen of Freedom award in Moscow. |
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Jun. 6
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British author Zadie Smith wins the £30,000 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel On Beauty, a comic homage to E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End. |
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Jun. 7
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The leader of ‘Al-Qaeda in Iraq’, Jordanian-born militant, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, is killed in an airstrike, on a safe house near Bequba in central Iraq. |
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Jun. 8
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French adventurer Raphaela le Gouvello becomes the world’s first person to windsurf the Indian Ocean, reaching Reunion Island after a 60-day odyssey. |
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Jun. 9
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Celebrations to hail King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the 60th anniversary of his accession to the throne begin in Thailand. |
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Jun. 10
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The ruling Hamas, calls off truce in force since February 2005 after an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza beach a day earlier kills seven civilians. |
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Nepal’s Parliament votes to strip King Gyanendra of his right to veto laws. |
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Jun. 15
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Sixtyfour persons, including 15 children on a bus are killed in Sri Lanka’s Anuradhapura district following an explosion. |
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Jun. 16
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Nepal’s Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, and Maoist supremo Prachanda, reach a ‘historical’ eight-point agreement. |
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black bags the maximum number of titles at the Seventh International Indian Film Academy awards in Dubai. |
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Jun. 17
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Russian security forces kill top Chechen rebel Abdul-Khalim Saidullayev, in a gunbattle in Argun. |
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Jun. 18
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Catalonia region of Spain gains sweeping powers in referendum. |
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Jun. 21
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At least 150 persons are killed as floods ravage Sulawesi island in Indonesia. |
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Canada launches a judicial probe into the 1985 bombing of the Kanishka flight. |
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Jun. 22
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The Red Cross and Red Crescent movement extend membership to Israeli and Palestinian relief organisations. |
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Harriet, a 178-year-old giant tortoise credited with helping Charles Darwin pioneer the theory of evolution dies in Australia. |
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Jun. 25
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Luxembourg-based steel major Arcelor accepts a merger offer from Mittal Steel based in Rotterdam. |
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Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman marries country singer Keith Urban in the Sydney surfing suburb of Manly. |
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Jun. 26
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The Deputy Chief of the Sri Lankan Army, Gen. Parami Kulatunga, is killed after a suicide bomber rams a motorcycle into the official’s car at Pannipitiya near Colombo. |
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The East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns. |
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Jun. 27
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The International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives endorses Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal. |
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Nguyen Tan Dung is elected Vietnam Prime Minister, Nguyen Minh Triet becomes President. |
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Hamas recognises Israel’s right to exist. |
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Jun. 28
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Sixtysix persons are killed in a car bomb attack in a crowded market in Sadr city, a Shia suburb on the outskirts of Baghdad. |
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Jun. 29
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For the first time Kuwaiti women cast votes in parliamentary elections. |
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The U.S. Senate Panel clears New Delhi-Washington nuclear deal. |
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Jun. 30
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Reformists win Kuwaiti polls and women draw a blank. |
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The Dutch Government led by Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende quits following withdrawal of support by a coalition partner. |
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