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November 9, 2006 (Thursday)

Ken Mehlman is to step down as chairman of the National Committee of the United States Republican Party. (CNN)
Eight synchronized bombs hit car showrooms in Southern Thailand, nine injured. (Reuters)^{[permanent dead link]}
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev formally signs the new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan. The Constitution drastically weakens the power of the executive branch in favor of the legislative. Bakiyev and Prime Minister Felix Kulov are expected to maintain their positions until 2010. (EurasiaNet)
2006 United States elections:
- Montana Senator Conrad Burns concedes his U.S. Senate race to Jon Tester. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Montana Senator George Allen to concede his U.S. Senate race to James Webb. This gives control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- A recount is reported to be underway in Florida's 13th congressional district, after Christine Jennings, who lost her bid for Katherine Harris's former House seat by 373 votes, alleges that touch-screen voter machine malfunctions failed to record 18,000 votes in Sarasota County, Florida, a Jennings stronghold. (AP via Yahoo! News)
BP settles the last remaining lawsuit from the 2005 explosion at its Texas oil refinery that cost 15 lives. (Reuters via Interactive Investor)
The Bank of England raises interest rates in the United Kingdom to five percent. (Daily Telegraph)^{[permanent dead link]}
Israel braces itself for revenge attacks after yesterday's dawn barrage in the Gaza Strip leaves a family of 18 dead. The general in charge of Israel's Southern Command, Youav Galant, blames problems with the targeting device for the artillery strike. (The Times)
Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack announces he will be running in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. (CNN)
Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, is hospitalized following a heart attack. (CNN)
France successfully performs the first flight test of its new nuclear missile, the M51. (AP via CBS)
Hundreds of young British Muslims are being radicalised, groomed and set on a path to mass murder, according to the head of MI5 (Security Service), Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller. (The Times)