Portal:Current events/2006 November 19

November 19, 2006 (Sunday)

Muslim women in New York City want to start a Koran council to interpret strict sharia law. (Reuters)
The British Columbia Lions win the 94th Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, game 25-14 over the Montreal Alouettes in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (CFL)
Gunmen abduct Iraq's Deputy Health Minister Ammar al-Saffar. (CNN)
Somali Civil War: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns Somalia's neighbours to stay out, as UN experts paint an alarming picture of foreign and extremist intervention in a nation on the brink of all-out war that could engulf the Horn of Africa. (allAfrica)
Suspected assassination plot: Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who defected to Britain six years ago, is fighting for his life in a London hospital after being poisoned with polonium-210 in a sushi bar. (The Sunday Times)
India test fires a Prithvi missile, a surface-to-surface missile, capable of carrying a nuclear weapon. (NDTV)
Russia and the United States sign a key trade agreement paving the way for Russian membership of the World Trade Organization. (AP via ABC News)
A suicide bomb explodes in Hillah, Iraq, killing 17 and wounding 49. (ABC News)
2006 Tonga riots: A leader of the Tongan pro-democracy movement, MP Akilisi Pohiva, criticises the intervention of Australian and New Zealand peacekeepers following riots. (ABC News Australia)
An attempted military coup d'état in Madagascar announced by Général Andrianafidisoa appears to have failed. (BBC) (NY Times) (ABC News)^{[permanent dead link]}
The 2006 meeting of the G20 industrial nations in Melbourne ends, with discussions centering on the global economy and climate change. Protesters clash with police during the event. (The Age - discussions) (The Age - protests)
The annual APEC meeting in Hanoi concludes with a call for the resumption of World Trade Organization talks, but references to climate change were removed from the final statement. (International Herald-Tribune)
Sri Lankan Army troopers opened fire on a group of minority Sri Lankan Tamil and Muslim students at an Agricultural College at Thandikulam close to Vavuniya in Sri Lanka. Five students were killed along with 10 injured. (Reuters)
Nintendo releases its 7th generation video game console in North America with 21 launch titles, the Wii.