Portal:Current events/2006 March 7
March 7, 2006 (Tuesday)
- The Dutch Labour party gains more than five hundred seats in the country's municipal election. (Financial Times)[permanent dead link]
- Fifteen people die and many others are injured in three blasts throughout Varanasi, India. (CNN)
- Kizza Besigye, formerly opposition presidential candidate in the recent Ugandan elections, is cleared of rape charges.(BBC)
- Israel's defense minister Shaul Mofaz says that the Hamas PNA prime minister-designate, Ismail Haniyeh, may be subject to an Israeli targeted killing if Hamas resumes attacks against Israel. (AP)
- British Lieutenant General Nick Houghton announces that the UK's 8,000 soldiers in Iraq could begin leaving the country within weeks. Most would be home by 2008, he says. (Guardian Unlimited)
- Anibal Ibarra, former mayor of Buenos Aires is removed from office over allegations of poor government safety regulation in last year's club fire. (The Mercury News)[permanent dead link]