February 2006 - 19 February 2006 (Sunday)

19 February 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).

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