Portal:Current events/2006 February 8
February 8, 2006 (Wednesday)
- Chad and Sudan sign the Tripoli Agreement, ending the Chadian–Sudanese conflict. (AlertNet)
- Heather Wilson, a New Mexico Congresswoman with NSA oversight authority, became the first Republican on an intelligence committee to call for a congressional investigation into Bush's warrantless wiretap program. (NY Times)
- An explosion at Russian military base at Kurchaloi in Chechnya kills at least 12 soldiers. The cause is unknown; however, a separatist attack has been officially ruled out. (Al Jazeera)(Mail and Guardian)
- Japanese Princess Kiko is pregnant with her third child. (ABC)
- Thousands of native South Americans march 900 miles (1,400 km) south of Rio de Janeiro to the spot where Sepé Tiaraju was killed in 1756, demanding that land in Brazil be given for a new "Guaraní nation."
- Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: in Afghanistan, four people are killed and eleven others are wounded by police firing on hundreds of protesters attempting to storm US military base. (AP)