Portal:Current events/2006 October 20
October 20, 2006 (Friday)
- OPEC agrees to reduce its output by 1.2 million barrels per day (190,000 m3/d), its first cut for more than two years, to halt falling oil prices. (USA Today)
- The Indian conglomerate Tata Group agrees to buy Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus in the largest ever Indian takeover of a foreign company. (NDTV)
- Ethiopia expels two European Union diplomats for allegedly trying to smuggle two fugitives into Kenya. The European Union criticises the expulsions as "totally unacceptable." (BBC)
- United States authorities charge a Wisconsin man with making a hoax threat against seven American football stadiums that said they would be targeted by terrorists with radiological dirty bombs on the weekend. (AP via WCBS)
- The Government of Kazakhstan is building a security fence on its border with Uzbekistan to prevent terrorist attacks in the country. (The New York Times)
- Clare Short, the former British cabinet minister, has left the Labour Party to sit as an Independent Labour MP. (BBC)
- Solomon Islands police and members of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) raid the office of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in Honiara. (ABC News Australia)
- European Union leaders gather in Lahti, Finland, for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (BBC) (CNN)
- Newly convicted prisoners in the United Kingdom are to be held in police cells rather than prisons, as the nation's prison service faces chronic overcrowding in its jails. (BBC)