Portal:Current events/2006 October 12
October 12, 2006 (Thursday)
- The Federal Reserve finds that economic growth in the United States is "moderate or mixed" with "widespread cooling" in the housing market. (Fox News)
- Members of the Janjaweed militia attack Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region in eastern Chad. (BBC).
- Nine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli raid in the Gaza Strip, reports say. (BBC)
- The French parliament adopts a bill criminalizing Armenian genocide denial, despite significant lobbying efforts by the Government of Turkey. (BBC)
- The New Zealand Auditor-General's report into 2005 election funding is released. NZ$1.17 million dollars was unlawfully spent during the election by seven parties, more than half of it by Labour. Labour immediately promises to repay the money. (NZ Herald)
- Iraq insurgency:
- A gun attack on the office of a satellite TV station in Baghdad kills 11 people. (BBC)
- Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff and head of the British Army, gives an interview stating that British forces should "get out some time soon" from Iraq as their presence "exacerbates the security problems". (BBC)
- Workers begin demolishing the one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania where five girls were shot to death and five others were injured. (Forbes)
- Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, whose novels discover "new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures", wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Washington Post) Archived 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine