Portal:Current events/2006 October 20

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October 20, 2006 (Friday)

OPEC agrees to reduce its output by 1.2 million barrels per day (190,000 m³/d), its first cut for more than two years, to halt falling oil prices. (USA Today)
The Indian conglomerate
Corus in the largest ever Indian takeover of a foreign company. (NDTV)

Ethiopia expels two European Union diplomats for allegedly trying to smuggle two fugitives into Kenya. The European Union criticises the expulsions as "totally unacceptable." (BBC)
United States authorities charge a
radiological dirty bombs on the weekend. (AP via WCBS)^{[permanent dead link}
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The
terrorist attacks in the country. (The New York Times)

Clare Short, the former British cabinet minister, has left the Labour Party to sit as an Independent Labour MP. (BBC)
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in Honiara. (ABC News Australia)^{[permanent dead link}
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European Union leaders gather in Lahti, Finland, for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (BBC) (CNN)
Newly
prison service faces chronic overcrowding in its jails. (BBC)

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