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Top Headlines from November 21, 2006
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Tags: November 21, 2006, Headlines, news, current events
A quick look at the newspapers from November 21, 2006 reveals these are the major events that took place on that day.
| | Same-sex marriage in Israel: The Supreme Court of Israel orders the Israeli government to recognize same-sex marriage performed abroad. |
| | Police in Sweden announce that they may have found the weapon used in the unsolved murder of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986. |
| | A helicopter with 13 passengers and 4 crewmembers makes an emergency landing in the North Sea between Texel and Den Helder, The Netherlands. One passenger is taken to hospital with hypothermia. The passengers were being evacuated from an offshore oil rig after a power outage. |
| | Lebanese Minister of Industry and Maronite Christian Pierre Gemayel is assassinated by a gunman in Beirut. |
| | President of the United States George W. Bush and the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki announce plans to meet next week to discuss security issues in Iraq. |
| | Twenty-three miners are killed in a gas explosion in a coal mine in Ruda Slaska, Poland, approximately 1,000 meters below the ground. |
| | Klaus Volkert, former chairman of the works council of Volkswagen, is arrested. He is suspected of attempting collusion and perfidy in the trial concerning Volkert's role in the corruption affair with the German car maker. |
| | A collision between a passenger train and a cargo train at the station of Arnhem, the Netherlands leaves 31 people injured. The train driver of the cargo train is arrested by the police. He allegedly ignored a red signal. |
| | American actor and comedian Michael Richards, best known for playing character Cosmo Kramer, apologizes on the nation's The Late Show this morning after referring to two African Americans as "niggers" at a Los Angeles area comedy club. |
| | A British mother facing the death penalty in Vietnam for heroin smuggling will not have a defence in court - because her lawyer has been put under house arrest by the Vietnamese Government. |
| | An international consortium signs a deal formally launching ITER, a project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor. |
| | Syria and Iraq restore diplomatic relations and agree to cooperate on security issues. |
| | Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championship, and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at the age of twenty-four. |
| | Part of the Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo burns down during a gunfight, thereby suspending the Court's review of electoral fraud and irregularities alleged to have taken place during the contested second round of the 2006 presidential election. |
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