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Top Headlines from November 12, 2006
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Tags: November 12, 2006, Headlines, news, current events
A quick look at the newspapers from November 12, 2006 reveals these are the major events that took place on that day.
| | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports that the Government of Turkmenistan has discovered a "super giant" field of 7 trillion cubic meters of natural-gas. President Saparmurat Niyazov wants companies from Germany and Russia to build a pipeline to carry the gas. |
| | The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident and urging for a quick withdrawal of Israel from the Gaza Strip. |
| | Aung San Suu Kyi meets with a United Nations official Ibrahim Gambari in Myanmar. It is the first time she has left her house since having been placed under house arrest in May. |
| | Somali Civil War (2006-present): |
| | Somalia's Islamist leaders say they have agreed a deal to avoid hostilities with the transitional government. |
| | Somalia's transitional government has dismissed as irrelevant an agreement struck between a group of Somali MPs and the Union of Islamic Courts. |
| | Iraq insurgency: At least eight people are killed and thirty injured in two simultaneous explosions in Baghdad, Iraq. |
| | A 5.9 earthquake occurs near Papua New Guinea. No damage is reported. |
| | Five Shiite ministers resign from the cabinet of Lebanon, complicating the situation for Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. |
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