Portal:Current events/2006 July 28
July 28, 2006 (Friday)
- Six people are shot, one fatally, at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington in a religiously-motivated killing spree. The killer identified himself as a Muslim American who was angry over the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. (Associated Press)
- Iran's nuclear program:
- The UN Security Council approves a resolution to give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of sanctions. (Reuters)
- A U.S. jury convicts four members of the Aryan Brotherhood on charges of murder, racketeering and conspiracy in a federal case aiming to dismantle the white-supremacist group. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
- A U.S. federal appeals court upholds the conviction and 25 year sentence of former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers for fraud. (USA Today)
- Coroners in the U.S. state of California estimate the death toll from the current heat wave at at least 123.
- An explosion at a fluorine plant in China's Jiangsu Province kills 12 people and leads to the evacuation of 7,000 people. (Deutsche Presse-Agentur)
- 2006 Kodori crisis: both Georgia and Abkhazia threaten war over the dispute. (civil.ge)
- The United States should immediately close all secret detention facilities used in its campaign against terror groups, the UN Human Rights Committee has said. (BBC NEWS)
- The first World Outgames are held in Montreal, Canada. Outgames co-president and Canadian Olympian, Mark Tewksbury, states that the event will "bridge the gap between the gay sport movement and the traditional sport movement."(CTV NEWS) Archived 2006-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict:
- The EU President and US State Department react to Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon's claim that the deadlocked Rome conference was a sign that the world supported Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The EU described the claim as "totally wrong" and the US declared the statement "outrageous". (BBC News) (EUobserver).
- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is reported to have taken refuge in the Iranian Embassy in Beirut. (Washington-Times)
- The White House has dismissed UK concerns about the use of Prestwick Airport, in Scotland, by US planes carrying bombs to Israel.(BBC NEWS)
- Tony Blair arrived in Washington, D.C. for talks with President George W. Bush on the crisis in the Middle East. Both leaders agree that a multinational force must be sent to Lebanon soon, and that a UN Security Council resolution must be introduced next week.(CTV NEWS)
- The UN removes its unarmed observers from posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border three days after four of them were killed by an Israeli bomb.(CTV NEWS) Archived 2006-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
- 15 Hezbollah militants are killed while fighting in Bint Jbeil.(YNET NEWS)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Operation Summer Rains):
- The mutilated body of Dr. Danny Yaakovi, an Israeli physician, is found in the West Bank.(YNET NEWS)