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August 20, 2006 (Sunday)

With nearly all votes counted, the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo heads toward a run-off election after neither candidate wins a fifty percent majority. Full provisional results show Joseph Kabila with 44.81 percent of the vote, to Jean-Pierre Bemba's 20.03 percent. There have been reports of automatic gunfire, and MLC representatives accused Kabila's Republican Guard of killing one of its men and injuring three policemen. (Reuters) (SBS)
Taliban insurgency: More than 90 die in heavy fighting this weekend in Afghanistan. (AFP)^{[permanent dead link]}
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has expressed deep concern over Saturday's Israeli commando raid deep inside Lebanon, calling it a truce violation. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- The Lebanese government vowed on Sunday to crush any attempt on the Lebanese side to breach the ceasefire.(Reuters)
The first named storm to form in the Central North Pacific basin since the 2002 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Ioke, forms and threatens Johnston Island and the Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. (United States Central Pacific Hurricane Center)
Iran test fires the Saegheh missile, a short-range surface-to-surface missile with a range of between 80 and 250 kilometres in the desert near Kashan. It comes a day after the army commenced exercises. (AP via MSNBC) (AP via Yahoo! News)
Controversy arises at cricket's Fourth test between Pakistan and England at The Oval, London when umpires rule that ball-tampering has occurred and award the game to England. (BBC)