NAVIGATION MAIN MENU

COMPENDIUM LIBRARY/TWITTER MONITOR
VIDEO GALLERY
Economic News
Newsbrief Archives
Democrat Leadership Twitter and Realtime Feeds
Cabinet twitter and realtime feeds
North America weblog
International weblog
Democrats twitter directory
Latest Government Jobs and Public Tenders
Jobs Matrix
Global Travel Information
Pop Entertainment Forum
Start Portal


Please make a donation to support upkeep of the daily news journal, back archives, twitter feeds and the compendium library.










August 11, 2006 (2006-08-11) (Friday)

Daily newsbrief journal for August 2006, also see http://www.usdemocrats.com/brief for a global 100-page perpetual brief and follow twitter @usdemocrats


August 11, 2006 (2006-08-11) (Friday)

Postby admin » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:42 am

August 11, 2006 (2006-08-11) (Friday)

2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
The UN Security Council adopts a resolution, 15-0, calling for a ceasefire in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. (Reuters)
Ehud Olmert accepts the emerging Middle East peace deal after earlier threatening an expansion of the ground war in Lebanon. The agreement calls for the deployment of 30,000 Lebanese and U.N. troops along the Israel-Lebanon border. (Boston Herald)
2006 transatlantic aircraft plot:
40 people have been arrested throughout Italy, in Muslim communities "as part of an extraordinary operation that followed the British anti-terrorist operation." (Fox News)
The date the plot was to be carried out has been revealed to be August 16. (Daily Mail)
Typhoon Saomai kills 111 people and leaves 4 missing in eastern China, according to the Chinese government. (BBC)
admin
Site Admin
 
Posts: 82092
Joined: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:00 am

Return to August 2006

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests

cron