Portal:Current events/2006 February 19
February 19, 2006 (Sunday)
- The movie Grbavica by Jasmila Žbanić wins the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, the world's most visited film festival.
- Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: An explosion traps 66 coal miners three hundred meters underground in a mine near Nueva Rosita, Coahuila. (CNN)
- Ismail Haniya of Hamas becomes Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, succeeding Ahmed Qurei. (Al Jazeera)
- Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decides to withhold payment to the Palestinian Authority of tax receipts amounting to about $50 million per month. (New York Times) (Reuters).