Portal:Current events/2006 December 10
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December 10, 2006 (Sunday)
- Incumbent Igor Smirnov wins the presidential elections in the self-declared state of Transnistria. (DPA)
- Ex Chilean president Augusto Pinochet dies. (The New York Times) (CNN)
- A video has emerged showing the current president of Croatia Stjepan Mesić praising the German puppet-state Independent State of Croatia during a speech in the early 1990s. (index.hr)
- According to results released by the Interior Ministry of Madagascar, a total of 61.45% of the country's registered 7.3 million voters went to the polling stations on December 3 and re-elected Marc Ravalomanana as President with 54.8% of the votes, Jean Lahiniriko and Roland Ratsiraka received 11.68% and 10.1%, respectively. (BBC), (AP)
- Nobel Prizes: Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus accepts the Peace Prize, urging world leaders to end terrorism by fighting poverty. (AP via The Guardian)