Portal:Current events/2007 February 6
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February 6, 2007 (Tuesday)
- At least three domain name system root nameservers are under denial-of-service attack. (The Register). See DNS Backbone DDoS Attacks
- Representatives of the Lord's Resistance Army say they will continue fighting with the Government of Uganda if negotiations are not moved to another location outside of southern Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
- A Human Rights Watch report concludes that European Union sanctions on the Government of Uzbekistan, which came in response to the "Andijan massacre" in May 2005, have failed due to a lack of commitment in enforcing them. (EurasiaNet)
- United States President George W. Bush approves a Pentagon plan for establishing a new command center in Africa. (BBC)
- An international passenger train crashes into a freight train in Komárom, Hungary, causing the engineer's death. Two of the 25 passengers also suffered injury. (HírTV)
- UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says people are "increasingly alarmed" by Iran's nuclear program but military action was not being planned against it. (BBC)
- The Iranian Government confirms that an Iranian envoy in Baghdad has been kidnapped by men wearing Iraqi army uniforms, and says it holds the United States responsible for his life. The U.S. denies any involvement of U.S. and Iraqi troops. (BBC)
- UK newspaper The Sun has obtained a video tape of a U.S. pilot shooting a UK convoy in a friendly fire incident during the Iraq War, killing one British soldier and injuring four. The pilot, and others, are said to have made a series of crucial mistakes. (The Sun)
- Three people in the United Kingdom have been jailed after plotting over internet chatrooms to abduct and rape two teenage girls. (The Times)