Portal:Current events/2006 December 12
December 12, 2006 (Tuesday)
- An Ethiopian court finds exiled former president Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty of genocide. (BBC)
- Leading climatologists warn that most of the Arctic ice will have melted by 2040 and the North Pole will be open water. (The Times)
- The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, orders security forces to deploy across the Gaza Strip in response to the murder of a Fatah security chief's three sons. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Police in Ipswich, UK are hunting a possible serial killer after five prostitutes are found dead within the last ten days. (BBC)
- Vietnam will become the 150th member of the World Trade Organization on January 11, 2007. The move finalises Hanoi's near-12-year wait to join the WTO. (BBC)