Portal:Current events/2006 November 27
November 27, 2006 (Monday)
- Michael Grade, the Chairman of the BBC, is hired as the new boss of its biggest rival ITV. (BBC)
- The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo confirms that Joseph Kabila had won the 2006 presidential election. (Independent Online)
- Iraq War:
- A U.S. F-16 fighter aircraft has gone down near the city of Fallujah in western Iraq. The United States Air Force said the plane's pilot was missing and an investigation into the cause of the incident has been launched. (Aljazeera)
- Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations warns that Iraq is close to civil war unless "something is done drastically and urgently to arrest the deteriorating situation". (CNN)
- Somali Civil War: The Islamic Courts Union that controls much of southern Somalia has revealed they would attack Ethiopian forces in Galkayo in Mudug province, central Somalia. (AllAfrica)
- The British government rejects proposals to increase the length of sound recording's copyright protection from 50 years to 95 years. This means that Sir Cliff Richard's earliest songs will come out of copyright in 2008, and the earliest songs recorded by the Beatles in 2013. Songs composed and/or written will still have copyright for 70 years after the author's death. (BBC)
- An airplane crashes in Tehran killing 28 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps including high-ranking officers. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
- Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock tables the multi-volume Cole Inquiry report. It finds that the Prime Minister of Australia John Howard, his ministers or Australian government departments were not aware of AWB Limited paying kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein to buy Australian wheat under the Oil for Food program. (AAP via News Limited)
- John Key is elected leader of the opposition New Zealand National Party, with Bill English as his deputy. Both were unopposed. (NZ Herald)
- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Canadian House of Commons endorse a motion to declare that the Québécois form a nation within a unified Canada.