Portal:Current events/2006 November 15
- General John Abizaid, head of the United States Central Command, tells the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services that he is optimistic that "we can stabilize Iraq." (CNN)
- An earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Hokkaidō measures only 40 centimetres (16 inches).(BBC News) (CNN)
- Joseph Kabila wins the presidential run-off election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 58% of the vote according to the electoral commission. His opponent Jean-Pierre Bemba claims that there were widespread instances of fraud. (BBC)
- India and Pakistan agreed today to set up a panel to combat terrorism during the first peace talks between the countries in almost a year. However, there has been no progress in the core dispute over Kashmir, the mountain region both countries claim. (The Times)
- Senator Mitch McConnell becomes the leader of the Republicans in the United States Senate. (Reuters)
- Widespread flooding is reported in East Africa especially Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, with at least five reported dead in Mogadishu where the Shabelle and Juba rivers have burst their banks and more than 70,000 people reported displaced in total. (SOS)
- A patient in southern Yerbolat Dosayev and several lower level officials. There was another widespread infection in 2005. (RIA Novosti)
- Al Jazeera International, and started broadcasting today. (Bloomberg)
- Forests begin to revive as global devastation of trees is reversed. A new study offers hope for endangered species and climate change. (The Times)
- death sentence. (BBC News)
- A building collapses under the force of a British Columbia wind storm. The storm has also prompted the evacuation of West Vancouver neighbourhoods because of the forceful gusts. (CTV) Archived 2009-07-27 at the Wayback Machine