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Recent Deaths
[edit] February 4: Betty Friedan 4: Al Lewis 3: Romano Mussolini

Events
[edit] Upcoming - February 5: Super Bowl XL in Detroit 6: Relase of the Quadrennial Defense Review 6: Bush sends 2007 budget to Congress. 6: NSA Spying Senate Hearing 6: New Cabinet of Canada sworn in 10: Torino Winter Olympics 16: 2006 Brit Awards [edit] Ongoing • Ariel Sharon illness • Abramoff scandal • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Black sites scandal • Horn of Africa food crisis • Iran's nuclear program • Malawi food crisis • Muhammad Drawings controversy • North Ossetia sabotages • North Indian cyclone season • Pacific typhoon season • Southern Hemisphere cyclone season – Intense Tropical Cyclone Boloetse [edit] Recent • NSA Spying Controversy • Stormontgate

Ongoing armed conflicts
• Acholiland insurgency • Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) • Chad-Sudan conflict • Second Chechen War • Second Congo War • Darfur conflict in Sudan • Iraq War • Ivorian Civil War • Nepal Civil War • South Thailand insurgency

Elections
[edit] Upcoming - February 5: Costa Rica, Pres. and Legislative 8: Nepal, municipality election 11: Tokelau, referendum on the future 15: Haiti, General [edit] Results - January 29: Finland, President 2nd round 25: Palestinian Nat'l Auth., Legislature 23: Canada, Federal 22: Portugal, President 20: Iraq, Legislative 15: Chile, President runoff

Trials
[edit] Upcoming Israel: Mordechai Vanunu Libya: Benghazi Six U.S.: Conrad Black U.S.: Lewis "Scooter" Libby [edit] Ongoing Chile: Alberto Fujimori Chile: Augusto Pinochet Indonesia: Bali Nine Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICTY — Slobodan Milošević Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui U.S.: Brian Nichols

Upcoming holidays and observances
[edit] February 6: Sapporo Snow Festival begins (Sapporo, Japan) 6: Waitangi Day (New Zealand)

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4 February 2006 (Saturday)

Twenty-seven out of 35 countries on the IAEA's Board of Governors vote to refer the nuclear program of Iran to the United Nations Security Council out of concern over Iran's plans to enrich nuclear materials and to refuse IAEA inspection of the process. (BBC)

A stampede at a sports stadium in Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines, kills 73 and injures more than 320, mostly women. Tens of thousands of people had gathered to watch the anniversary presentation of the popular ABS-CBN early afternoon TV gameshow, Wowowee.(BBC),(CNN)

The Danish, and as a consequence of sharing the same building, the Chilean and Swedish embassies in Damascus, are firebombed by protestors denouncing the publication of what they consider sacriligious cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The Norwegian embassy is also burned. (BBC)

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3 February 2006 (Friday)

The United States expels Venezuelan diplomat Jeny Figueredo Frias in retaliation for yesterday's expulsion of suspected US spy John Correa from Venezuela. A State Department spokesman descibed the move as part of "tit-for-tat diplomatic games". (VOA)
The International Atomic Energy Agency has deferred until Saturday a vote on whether to report Iran to the UN Security Council over concerns its nuclear programs may produce weapons. (CBC)
A plot to assassinate President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia by shooting down his helicopter has been foiled. (Yahoo)
Queues build up at vendors as the EuroMillions lottery offers a jackpot of €180 million after 11 successive rollovers (statistically expected once in 25 years). Some British vendors report a 1200% increase in sales. EuroMillions tickets are sold in Austria, Belgium. France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. An Irish woman won €115,436,126 last July. (BBC), (Guardian). UPDATE: The winning numbers were 9 21 30 39 50 with Lucky Star numbers 01 and 03; the jackpot was shared between three winning tickets, two in France and one in Portugal. (UK National Lottery)
Two car bombs explode minutes apart in southern Baghdad, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 90 others. (CNN)
A strong earthquake registering magnitude 5.9 shakes northeastern Japan, but there is no danger of a tsunami. (CNN)
Arab-Israeli Conflict:
- Hezbollah fires some 30 mortar shells at IDF outposts along the northern Israeli border, lightly wounding an Israeli soldier. In response, Israeli Air Force strikes Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Reuters) (YNET)
- At least three Qassam rockets are fired from Gaza by Palestinian militants at Israeli civilian targets. One rocket strikes a home in Kibbutz Karmiyah, injuring four people, including a one-year-old infant. The home belongs to a family recently evicted during Israel's 2005 unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip. (YNET)
The United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld likens Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez to Adolf Hitler. In retaliation, Venezuelan Vice President José Vicente Rangel refers to the US as the Third Reich. (AP), (AP)
The al-Salam Boccaccio 98, a ferry carrying 1272 passengers and 105 crew, sinks in poor weather in the Red Sea while travelling between Saudi Arabia and Egypt. 314 people have been rescued so far. (BBC) (Wikinews)
Dutch D66 party chairman Boris Dittrich resigns because the Dutch Government voted 'Yes' to Dutch participation in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (Expatica)

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2 February 2006 (Thursday)

A leaked memo in the UK, detailing a conversation between U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2003, has revealed that Blair intended to follow the US into Iraq even without a UN resolution, and that Bush considered provoking a response from Iraq using falsely marked Lockheed U-2 spy planes to provide an excuse for war. (Guardian)
Venezuela has expelled U.S. Navy Cmdr. John Correa, a military attaché at the U.S. embassy in Caracas, on suspicion of espionage. (Newsweek) (BBC)
Representative John Boehner of Ohio becomes the U.S. House Majority Leader, beating out acting majority leader Roy Blunt in a house vote. (New York Times)
Royal Dutch Shell breaks the record for the highest ever annual profit for a British company with a total of £13.12bn (BBC news)
An unprecedented mobile phone tapping case was made public in Greece (Athens News Agency)
The oil tanker Seabulk Pride, carrying approx 100,000 barrels (approx. 16 million L) of oil, runs aground in the port of Nikiski, Alaska. (BBC News)

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1 February 2006 (Wednesday)

Governor of West Virginia Joe Manchin asks for a halt in coal mining following two more coal mining deaths in the state that saw fourteen people die in coal mining disasters in January. (CNN).
More than 200 Israeli settlers and Israeli Security Forces are injured in clashes during demolition of illegally built Amona outpost in the West Bank.(Haaretz)
The controversy surrounding the Muhammad cartoons escalates as newspapers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain republish the controversial pictures in defiance of widespread Muslim protests in the Middle East and elsewhere.(BBC News)
The Latin American TV station teleSUR, backed by the Venezuelan government, has signed a co-operation agreement with the Arabic channel al-Jazeera. (BBC News)
Shares in Google fall dramatically after the company reported profits below Wall Street estimates. $12 billion in market value was lost. (AP)
Astronomers measure the size of newly discovered solar system object 2003 UB₃₁₃ as larger than Pluto with 84% probability. (astro.uni-bonn.de), (AP via Yahoo!)