Portal:Current events/2006 December 27

December 27, 2006 (Wednesday)

More than 105 people have died following days of heavy rains in Indonesia, and hundreds more are still missing. (BBC)
Six people die and one person goes missing after a helicopter carrying gas workers ditches into Morecambe Bay east of the Irish Sea, off the coast of Morecambe, England. (Times Online)
The Kazakh KNB has broken up and arrested members of the Stepnogorsk zhamaat terrorist organization, confiscating weapons and religious literature. (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)
An earthquake near Taiwan damages undersea cables, disrupts phone and Internet service in Asia and the U.S. (MSNBC) (Reuters) (Guardian) (International Herald Tribune)
The French Space Agency (CNES) spacecraft COROT was successfully launched in Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:28 UTC (GMT+4) to search for extrasolar planets.
War in Somalia:
- Ethiopian/Transitional Federal Government forces regain Jowhar after heavy fighting. The Islamist militia go into a retreat towards Mogadishu. (The Associated Press)
- Mogadishu is besieged after Islamists retreated to it. (Reuters)
Former U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate John Edwards will run for the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination. (MSNBC)

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