Portal:Current events/2006 February 7
- Private genitals had to be amputated, is transferred to Moscow for further treatment. The incident has caused uproar in Russia with President Putin addressing the State Duma on army bullying. Sixteen soldiers officially died in hazing incidents last year, although the figure does not include related suicides. (RIA Novosti) (Radio Free Europe)
- Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy:
- An free speech". (BBC) (WikiNews)
- As the Danish embassy in Tehran is attacked by hundreds of protesters, five people are killed in Afghanistan as protests against European Muhammed cartoons sweep across the country. (BBC)
- Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen says violent Muslim protests over cartoons of Muhammad are a worldwide crisis spinning out of the control of governments. (Reuters)
- An
- Monitored by thousands of first election since the ousting of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. (CTV) Archived 2009-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
- An Israeli airstrike on a car kills two Palestinian militants in Gaza City. (Reuters)
- 9/11 terrorist plot. (BBC)
- UK National DNA Database of those arrested, but acquitted or released without charges. (Scotsman)
- Japan urges North Korea to return to six-party talks on its nuclear program and halt missile development, but a Japanese official said Pyongyang insists that Washington drop sanctions first. (Reuters)
- Muslim cleric incitement to racial hatred after a lengthy trial at London's Central Criminal Court and is sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. (BBC)
- The number of people attempting to view illegal British Telecommunications (BT). They use a system to block sites carrying the images of children, which has been getting some 35,000 hits a day for the past four months. (BBC)