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)^{[permanent dead link]}
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)^{[permanent dead link]}
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)