Portal:Current events/2006 December 27

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More than 105 people have died following days of heavy rains in Indonesia, and hundreds more are still missing. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6211891.stm (BBC)]
Six people die and one person goes missing after a helicopter carrying gas workers ditches into Morecambe Bay east of the Irish Sea, off the coast of Morecambe, England. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2521263,00.html (Times Online)]
The Kazakh KNB has broken up and arrested members of the Stepnogorsk zhamaat terrorist organization, confiscating weapons and religious literature. [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/12/A9F092D6-602A-4E0C-8D21-77025F6005FF.html (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)]
An earthquake near Taiwan damages undersea cables, disrupts phone and Internet service in Asia and the U.S. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16367332/ (MSNBC)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20070320180517/http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN (Reuters)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6305433,00.html (Guardian)] [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/27/news/quake.php (International Herald Tribune)]
The French Space Agency (CNES) spacecraft COROT was successfully launched in Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:28 UTC (GMT+4) to search for extrasolar planets.
War in Somalia:
Ethiopian/Transitional Federal Government forces regain Jowhar after heavy fighting. The Islamist militia go into a retreat towards Mogadishu. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/27/africa/AF_GEN_Somalia.php (The Associated Press)]
Mogadishu is besieged after Islamists retreated to it. [http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-27T193757Z_01_L24148211_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SOMALIA-CONFLICT-COL.XML (Reuters)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Former U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate John Edwards will run for the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16371206/ (MSNBC)]

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