Portal:Current events/2006 August 27
August 27, 2006 (Sunday)
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
- Israel denies that a German-mediated prisoner exchange with Hezbollah is to take place within two or three weeks, as reported earlier in Egyptian state-run daily Al-Ahram. (Haaretz)[permanent dead link], (AFP via Al Nahar)
- Four children have been hurt after playing with an unexploded Israeli cluster bomb in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Reports surface that UNIFIL troops in Lebanon continuously broadcast online sensitive information such as the strength and precise movements of the Israeli army.(Weekly Standard)
- The Games Convention, the largest video game expo on both sides of the Atlantic closes with a record attendance of 183,000 visitors in 4 days of exhibiting. The projected attendance was set at 150,000. There are expansion plans of the expo for 2007 and beyond. MDR (German)
- Comair Flight 5191 crashes in Lexington, Kentucky. Only one person, out of three crew and 47 passengers, survived. (CNN.com)
- Iran test-fires a Sagheb missile during exercises in the Persian Gulf. (TVNZ)
- Hurricane Ernesto becomes the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Jeb Bush later declares a state of emergency due to its possible impact on Florida later in the week. (ABC News), (Associated Press)
- At least seven people die in blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as a security clampdown continues.(BBC NEWS)
- Pakistan increases security in Balochistan as rioting follows the killing of rebel leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.(BBC NEWS)
- Two Fox News Channel journalists are released after being held hostage for two weeks in the Gaza Strip. Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were earlier claimed to have been forced by their captors to convert to Islam. (CBS News), (Al Jazeera)