Portal:Current events/2006 March 7

March 7, 2006 (Tuesday)

The Dutch Labour party gains more than five hundred seats in the country's municipal election. (Financial Times)^{[permanent dead link]}
Fifteen people die and many others are injured in three blasts throughout Varanasi, India. (CNN)
Kizza Besigye, formerly opposition presidential candidate in the recent Ugandan elections, is cleared of rape charges.(BBC)
Israel's defense minister Shaul Mofaz says that the Hamas PNA prime minister-designate, Ismail Haniyeh, may be subject to an Israeli targeted killing if Hamas resumes attacks against Israel. (AP)
British Lieutenant General Nick Houghton announces that the UK's 8,000 soldiers in Iraq could begin leaving the country within weeks. Most would be home by 2008, he says. (Guardian Unlimited)
Anibal Ibarra, former mayor of Buenos Aires is removed from office over allegations of poor government safety regulation in last year's club fire. (The Mercury News)^{[permanent dead link]}