Portal:Current events/2006 October 7
October 7, 2006 (Saturday)
- New Guinea volcano Rabaul caldera erupts. Two hundred people are evacuated but favourable winds help protect nearby towns from the impact. (ABC News Australia)
- Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, famous for her criticism of President Vladimir Putin and his government's actions in Chechnya, is found murdered in Moscow. (Interfax), (BBC)
- Sixty warning shots are fired by South Korean soldiers at the Korean Demilitarized Zone after they observe five North Korean soldiers crossing part of the boundary. (AP via CNN)
- Latvian parliamentary election: The governing coalition led by Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis wins re-election, the first Latvian administration to be re-elected since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (BBC)