Jan. 1
| China launches official website www.gov.cn. at zero hour. | Full Story
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Jan. 3
| Scottish writer Ali Smith’s The Accidental wins the 2006 Whitbread Prize. | Full Story
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Jan. 4
| Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE Vice-President and Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai dies in Australia. | Full Story
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| Two hundred persons are feared killed in a landslip unleashed by heavy rains in Indonesia’s Central Java. | |
Jan. 5
| At least 120 persons are killed in suicide bomb attacks across Iraq. | |
| The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, suffers a massive brain haemorrhage. | Full Story
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| Sharon's Deputy Premier Ehud Olmert takes charge. | Full Story
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| Seventysix persons are killed in a building collapse near the Grand Mosque in Mecca. | Full Story
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Jan. 6
| Three Turkish siblings die of bird flu. | Full Story
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Jan. 9
| Bird flu spreads in Turkey and WHO warns of its mutation into a dangerous form. | Full Story
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Jan. 10
| Ukrainian Parliament votes to sack the Government. | Full Story
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| Iran removes seals at atomic research facility at Natanz after two-and-a-half years. | Full Story
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Jan. 11
| The London High Court ‘orders’ the de-freezing of two British bank accounts of the Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi accused of receiving kickbacks in the Bofors scandal, and frozen in July 2003. | Full Story
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Jan. 12
| Over 345 Haj pilgrims, including 51 Indians are killed in a stampede at Mina in Saudi Arabia. | Full Story
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| Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca who shot at Pope Paul II on May 13, 1981 is freed from prison in Istanbul. | Full Story
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Jan. 15
| The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah (79) dies and Crown Prince Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah is appointed his successor. | Full Story
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| The NASA’s Stardust spacecraft returns to earth with the first comet dust samples and lands in the Utah desert after a seven-year journey. | |
| Michelle Bachelet is elected the first woman President of Chile. | |
Jan. 16
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in Liberian President and also earns a name in history as Africa’s first elected female head of state. | Full Story
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| Brokeback Mountain, a film about a love affair between two cowboys bags top awards at the 63rd Golden Globes presentation in Los Angeles. | |
Jan. 18
| Militants kill 67 Iraqis after dragging them from cars at checkpoints north of Baghdad. | |
Jan. 19
| NASA launches the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year, 4.5 billion km journey to Pluto from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. | |
Jan. 21
| The Kosovo President, Ibrahim Rugova (61), dies of lung cancer. | |
Jan. 22
| Pakistan lifts ban on Bollywood films. | Full Story
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Jan. 23
| Conservatives led by Stephen Harper win Canadian election. | |
| Pakistan denies lifting of ban on Indian films. | Full Story
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Jan. 24
| The Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Sheikh al-Ahmad al Sabah, is named Emir following the ouster of ailing Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah by Parliament. | Full Story
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Jan. 25
| Palestinians cast votes in Parliament polls being held after 10 years. | Full Story
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| Uzbekistan joins the Eurasian Economic Community at a summit in St. Petersburg. | |
Jan. 26
| Hamas wins absolute majority in Palestinian parliamentary polls. The Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei quits. | Full Story
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Jan. 29
| Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah is sworn in Kuwait Emir. | |
| Myanmarese leader Aung San Suu Kyi is named winner of the Olof Palme Prize. | Full Story
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clipped from www.hindu.com
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