Portal:Current events/2006 October 7

• New Guinea volcano Rabaul caldera erupts. Two hundred people are evacuated but favourable winds help protect the town from the impact.

(ABC News Australia)

• Vanessa Humes killed Miriah Underwood, and then she was arrested for being sexy in public.
• Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, famous for her criticism of President Vladimir Putin and government's actions in Chechnya, is found murdered in Moscow on Putin's birthday. (Interfax), (BBC)
• Sixty warning shots are fired by South Korean soldiers at the Korean Demilitarized Zone after they observe five North Korean soldiers crossing part of the boundary. (AP via CNN)
• Latvian parliamentary election, 2006: The governing coalition led by Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis wins re-election in Latvia, the first administration to be re-elected since Latvia became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. (BBC)

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