Portal:Current events/2006 July 27
July 27, 2006 (Thursday)
- U.S. Heat Wave of 2006: A heat wave in California causes at least 90 deaths. (KOVR-TV / CBS 13)
- Somalia's interim government unravels as at least 20 government members resign, most being parliament members, accusing the country's virtually powerless government of failing to bring peace. (Houston Chronicle)
- The three main militia groups in the troubled DR Congo eastern province of Ituri have agreed to lay down arms and begin integrating into the Congolese army.(BBC).
- More than 80 people dead and missing in China as a result of Typhoon Kaemi. (Mail and Guardian)
- In Rome, the President of the Venice Biennale Davide Croff and the Director of the 63rd Venice Film Festival Marco Müller have presented the line-up of the festival, which runs August 30 - September 9. (La Biennale di Venezia)
- 2006 Kodori crisis: the rebel renegade Emzar Kvitsiani escapes as one civilian gets killed in the fighting. civil.ge. The hitherto Tbilisi-based Government of Abkhazia-in-exile will assume control of the gorge located in the northeastern part of breakaway Abkhazia after the first phase of the Georgian police operation is successfully over.(civil.ge)
- The government investigation of the assault that partially paralyzed Fu Xiancai, a Chinese activist protesting the displacement caused by the Three Gorges Dam, concludes that he hit himself in the back of the neck, breaking three vertebrae. (BBC)
- The team for 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis announces that he failed a drug test during the race, with high levels of testosterone. (Sports Illustrated), (Reuters)
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
- Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, openly supports Hezbollah attacks on Israel, Calling for Jihad until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq". (CNN), (Washington Post) Archived 2012-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, (Associated Press)
- Israel says diplomats' decision not to call for a halt to its Lebanon offensive at a Middle East summit has given it the green light to continue.(BBC NEWS)
- The Israeli military has been taken by surprise by the ferocity of Hezbollah's resistance and may rethink its strategy. (New York Times) (The Guardian, London)
- The Israeli Cabinet decides not to expand the Lebanese offensive. (Associated Press)
- Lebanese Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh claims that up to 600 civilians may have been killed in the Israeli bombardment. (The Australian)
- Already-convicted murder Robert Charles Browne pleads guilty to another killing, and leads authorities to suspect he might be America's most prolific serial killer (Boston Herald)
- 2006 Ukraine parliament crisis. Ukraine's president, Yushchenko, holds crisis talks over political stalemate. (Fox News)