Events in July 2006
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Jul. 1
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The Chinese President, Hu Jintao, flags off the Beijing-Lhasa Express on the 1,142 km long Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world’s highest in Golmud city in northwest China’s Qinghai province. |
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The World Trade Organisation talks in Geneva collapses as Trade Ministers fail to arrive at a common ground on agriculture and industrial tariffs. |
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The South Asian Free Trade agreement among SAARC nations becomes operational. |
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Jul. 2
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Mexicans cast votes in presidential polls. |
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Jul. 3
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Indian and Chinese Parliaments sign the first-ever agreement to regularise bilateral exchanges. |
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Jul. 4
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The Discovery shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
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Jul. 5
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North Korea testfires a series of missiles, including the intercontinental Taepodong-2. |
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Jul. 6
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Thirteen persons are killed as Israel invades Gaza Strip reoccupying areas evacuated 10 months ago, the crisis triggered by the June 25 abduction of Corporal Gilad Shalit. |
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Nikola Gruevski wins Macedonian parliamentary polls. |
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Jul. 7
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Felipe Calderon wins Mexican presidential polls. |
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Jul. 8
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The Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s twin Jaroslaw Kaczynski is named the Prime Minister. |
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Jul. 9
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At least 124 persons are killed as a Russian plane bursts after overshooting the runway and crashing into garages outside the airport in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. |
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Jul. 10
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Russia’s most wanted Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev is killed in a special forces operation near the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia neighbouring Chechnya. |
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Over 10,000 are believed dead or missing after a severe typhoon hits North Korea. |
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Jose Ramos-Horta is sworn in East Timor Prime Minister. |
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Jul. 11
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Indonesian Parliament passes law granting autonomy to Aceh province. |
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Jul. 12
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Israel launches attack on Lebanon after Hizbollah captures two soldiers in a cross-border raid. |
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The White House extends prisoner-of-war protection of the Geneva Convention to terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. |
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Jul. 13
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Israel imposes air and naval blockade on Lebanon. At least 35 civilians have been killed in Tel Aviv’s military action. |
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Jul. 16
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The G-8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia vows to promote “free, competitive and open” energy markets. A statement on “Global Energy Security” is adopted. |
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Eight persons are killed as Hizbollah rocket barrage hits Israeli city of Haifa. The toll crosses 100 in Lebanon and reaches 24 in Israel. |
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Jul. 17
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At least 550 people are killed as a tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake crashes into beach resorts and fishing villages in Indonesia’s Java island. |
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Space shuttle Discovery safely lands in Florida completing a 13-day mission. |
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Jul. 18
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Lebanon refugees stream into villages in the Chouffe mountains even as the toll reaches 230 following fierce fighting between Israel and Hizbollah. |
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At least 53 persons are killed as a suicide car bomber strikes near a major shrine in Kufa, southern Iraq. |
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Jul. 19
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The U.S. President, George Bush, vetoes, for the first time since taking office, Bill to ease federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. |
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Jul. 20
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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is conferred an honorary doctorate by the De Montfort University, Leicester. |
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The evacuation of Indians from Lebanon begins. |
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Jul. 23
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At least 64 persons are killed in a rash of bombings in Iraq. |
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Zuleyka Rivera Mindoza (18) of Puerto Rico is crowned Miss Universe at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. |
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Jul. 24
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India signs the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism 2006 at the U.N. headquarters in New York. |
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Jul. 26
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Israeli forces kills 16 Palestinians in fighting across the Gaza Strip taking the toll in the nearly five-week offensive to 137. |
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Jul. 27
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The U.S. House of Representatives approves the United States and India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act 2006. |
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Nine persons are killed in Lebanon in a new wave of Israeli attacks taking the toll in the 16-day offensive to 414. It displaces 5,50,000 people. |
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Jul. 30
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At least 54 civilians, including 34 children are killed in an Israeli air strike in Qana town in south Lebanon. The toll touches 750. |
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Congo people cast votes in the presidential and legislative polls. |
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Jul. 31
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At least 42 persons die in a fierce battle between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Army over access to Mavilaru, a waterway in Trincomalee. |
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The Cuban President, Fidel Castro, cedes power to brother Raul Castro temporarily for the first time in 47 years since seizing mantle from Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. |
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