Portal:Current events/2006 October 24
October 24, 2006 (Tuesday)
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi accuses the Government of Eritrea of jeopardizing regional stability by engaging in a proxy war through its assistance to the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia. Zenawi warns the Ethiopian Parliament that "Jihadists are amassing their forces near our borders."(allAfrica)
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at another record high. (News Limited)
- Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare formally proposes reducing the role of Australia in the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) in his country at a Pacific leaders forum in Fiji. (ABC News Australia)
- The European Union announces it plans to assist Kazakhstan in developing nuclear power for "peaceful purposes." (NASDAQ)
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opposes a bill in Iranian parliament that would require the fingerprinting of any citizens of the United States that are visiting Iran, stating, "We do not have a problem with American people. We oppose only the U.S. government." (AP via ABC)
- An Associated Press photographer is released after a day in the hands of Palestinian gunmen. (AP via WCBS)
- Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert sits down with ethics investigators trying to determine when he and his staff learned about ex-Rep. Mark Foley's come-ons to former male pages and what they did to stop it. (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
- Firefox 2.0 is released. (CNET)