Portal:Current events/2006 October 28

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• General Henry Obering, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency welcomes what he cast as epochal progress toward putting a high-energy laser aboard a modified Boeing 747 to attack ballistic missiles that could be fired by North Korea and Iran. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070318004921/http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1775995.htm (Reuters via ABC News Australia)]
• Cuban television shows images of convalescing leader Fidel Castro walking and reading the day's newspapers showing that he is recovering from his emergency surgery in July. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061025044729/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews (Reuters)], [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6095622.stm (BBC)]
• The Russian political parties Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party merge to form a new leftist party, Fair Russia, effectively making Sergey Mironov the new leader of the opposition in the Russian legislature. [http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10932904&PageNum=0 (ITAR-TASS)]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/28/europe/EU_POL_Russia_Politics.php (IHT)]
• Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki tells the U.S. ambassador that he is Washington's friend but "not America's man in Iraq." [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/28/iraq/main2135098.shtml (CBS News)]
• At least 42 people are killed in a bus crash in Nepal. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6094522.stm (BBC)]
• Violence breaks out during street protests in Bangladesh, causing the deaths of at least 9 people, as confusion continues over who will take over governing the country from former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia. [http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=a6fc6ae9830fe7d9dd52603770a59e49944d2e6d&WTmodLoc=%22Home-R2-Top+News-4 (Reuters)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• The genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera has been fully sequenced and analyzed. [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7114/full/443884a.html (Nature)]
• German newspaper Bild publishes photos allegedly showing Bundeswehr troops posing with human remains in Afghanistan while on peacekeeping duties there. [http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=1de5a35466ce059aac74dc0610e1e3e595822761 (Reuters)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• NATO apologizes for the deaths of Afghan civilians in an air raid on Tuesday, October 24, in Kandahar province, blaming Taliban insurgents for using the villagers as cover. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6094800.stm (BBC)]
• Voting begins on a new Serbian constitution that would make Kosovo officially a part of Serbia; voter turnout on day one was low. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6090392.stm (BBC)]
• Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba face-off in the presidential run-off election in Democratic Republic of the Congo. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6095754.stm (BBC)]

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