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Top Headlines from November 19, 2006
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A quick look at the newspapers from November 19, 2006 reveals these are the major events that took place on that day.
| | Muslim women in New York City want to start a Koran council to interpret strict sharia law. |
| | The British Columbia Lions win the 94th Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, game 25-14 over the Montreal Alouettes in Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| | Gunmen abduct Iraq's Deputy Health Minister Ammar al-Saffar. |
| | Somali Civil War: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns Somalia's neighbours to stay out, as UN experts paint an alarming picture of foreign and extremist intervention in a nation on the brink of all-out war that could engulf the Horn of Africa. |
| | Suspected assassination plot: Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who defected to Britain six years ago, is fighting for his life in a London hospital after being poisoned with thallium in a sushi bar. |
| | India test fires a Prithvi missile, a surface-to-surface missile, capable of carrying a nuclear weapon. |
| | Russia and the United States sign a key trade agreement paving the way for Russian membership of the World Trade Organization. |
| | A suicide bomb explodes in Hillah, Iraq, killing 17 and wounding 49. |
| | 2006 Tonga riots: A leader of the Tongan pro-democracy movement, MP Akilisi Pohiva, criticises the intervention of Australian and New Zealand peacekeepers following riots. |
| | An attempted military coup d'état in Madagascar announced by Général Andrianafidisoa appears to have failed. |
| | The 2006 meeting of the G20 industrial nations in Melbourne ends, with discussions centering on the global economy and climate change. Protesters clash with police during the event. |
| | The annual APEC meeting in Hanoi concludes with a call for the resumption of World Trade Organization talks, but references to climate change were removed from the final statement. |
| | Nintendo released its new game system, the Wii. |
| | Sri Lankan Army troopers opened fire on a group of minority Sri Lankan Tamil and Muslim students at an Agricultural College at Thandikulam close to Vavuniya in Sri Lanka. Five students were killed along with 10 injured. |
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