January 2006 - 27 January 2006 (Friday)

27 January 2006 (Friday)

  • French President Jacques Chirac is successfully hoaxed by a Canadian DJ pretending to be Stephen Harper. (CNN)
  • European leaders remember the Holocaust, with the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. (Yahoo!)
  • A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes the Banda Sea of eastern Indonesia. (USGS)
  • The world honours Mozart on his 250th birthday anniversary. (CTV)
  • President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia pledges to end his country's energy crisis by importing Iranian natural gas. Starting Monday, Georgia will import 2 million m3 of gas a day at $120/m3, $10 more than for Russian gas. Georgia's supply of Russian gas has been interrupted since Sunday due to pipeline explosions. Saakashvili has accused Moscow of sabotage for political gain. (RIA Novosti)

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