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- The Israeli cabinet has approved the addition of an ultra-nationalist party into the governing coalition. (BBC NEWS)
- Sir Nicholas Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank, submits a report to the British Government warning of the economic costs and damage to the world that could result from global warming. (The Times)
- Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer walks out of court after 12 of his requests were rejected, but the chief judge immediately appoints other attorneys to defend the deposed President of Iraq. (USA Today)
- A bomb at a Baghdad market kills 31 people and wounds more than 50 others. (AP via ABC News America)
- 2006 Bajaur airstrike: Pakistani helicopter gunships fired missiles and destroyed an al-Qaeda-linked training facility and killed 80 suspected terrorists in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border, in a madrassa near the town of Khar. (Reuters AlertNet)
- Super typhoon Cimaron, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in eight years, kills at least three people as it makes landfall in Luzon. (Reuters), (Reuters)
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