Portal:Current events/2006 March 24
March 24, 2006 (Friday)
- Clerics in Kabul call for Abdul Rahman to be put to death. He is accused of committing apostasy for converting from Islam to Christianity. (AP)
- President Roh Moo-hyun nominates Han Myung-Sook to become the South Korea's first woman prime minister. (Reuters)
- Lin Liang Ren, 29, is convicted on 21 counts of manslaughter arising from the February 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. (BBC)
- EU summit in Brussels: the EU leaders back plans to develop a common energy policy, but the specifics remain vague and difficult (Independent)
- Pentagon: It is alleged by a report that Russia gave intelligence information to Saddam Hussein's Iraq regarding American troop movements during the early stages of the Iraq War. (Reuters)
- Hannah Montana starts with its first episode.