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WORLD EVENTS AND THE YEAR 2006
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World Events of 2006
- Israel's Ehud Olmert becomes prime minister after Ariel Sharon suffers a massive stroke.
- Hamas wins the majority of seats in Palestinian legislative elections. Israeli leaders refuse to accept a Hammas lead government vote to withhold $50 million per month.
- After a Danish newspaper publishes a series of cartoons depicting Muhamad, demonstrators around the world rise in protest.
- The Middle East continues to be destabilised by US occupation of Iraq. The situation in Iraq is finally acknowledged by US to be in a Civil war.
- After weeks of crippling student-led protests, French president Jacques Chirac repeals a new labour law that would have made it easier for employers to fire workers under the age of 26.
French protests
- In defiance of the U.N. Security Council, Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium. The International Atomic Energy Agency reports to the Security Council that it has found traces of highly enriched uranium at Iran's Natanz facility. U.N. Security Council resolution bans the Iranian import and export of materials and technology used to enrich uranium.
- Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad.
Saddam Hussein is hanged
- Continuing unrest in East Timor.
- A state of emergency is declared in the Philippines, after an alleged coup d'état against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is foiled.
- Slobodan Milosevic is found dead in his cell in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague.
- Cuban president Fidel Castro develops health problems, creating worldwide speculation as to the future of Cuba.
Fidel Castro in Hospital
- Pope Benedict XVI gives a lecture in Germany; he quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith, sparking mass protest.
Pope Benedict XVI
- North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
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