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Top Headlines from November 22, 2006
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Tags: November 22, 2006, Headlines, news, current events
A quick look at the newspapers from November 22, 2006 reveals these are the major events that took place on that day.
| 1. | A gas pipeline explodes near the city of Surabaya in Java, killing seven people. |
| 2. | Hinting at Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tells Orthodox Union openly talk about wiping us off the map; we have heard these voices in the past; we can't afford to listen and not to react." |
| 3. | General elections in the Netherlands have resulted in a landslide gain for the Socialist Party. The Christian democratic CDA remains the largest party, but no two parties can form a cabinet with a majority in parliament. |
| 4. | The Prime Minister of Lebanon has asked the United Nations for help in investigating the assassination of Pierre Amine Gemayel. |
| 5. | Flooding in southern Somalia causes 73 deaths. Up to 1.8 million people have been affected by the floods. |
| 6. | The United Nations claims that 3,709 Iraqi civilians died during October 2006 as sectarian violence worsens. |
| 7. | United states district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana Eldon Fallon rules that over seven thousand federal lawsuits against pharmaceutical company Merck claiming that its drug Vioxx caused heart problems could not be combined into one class action suit. |
| 8. | Seven foreign oil workers are taken hostage in Nigeria. Four people die in a rescue effort including one hostage, a soldier and two of the kidnappers. via ABC News) |
| 9. | According to UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, British troops stationed in the Iraqi city of Basra could hand over control to local authorities as early as next spring. |
| 10. | The Prime Minister of Nepal Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist guerilla leader Prachanda sign a peace treaty ending 11 years of civil war in Nepal. Morning Herald) |
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