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May 6, 2006 (2006-05-06) (Saturday)
- The
People's Republic of China announces
Vatican-approved
Paul Pei Junmin will be
ordained as a
Catholic
bishop on Sunday, just days after a diplomatic clash due to the unilateral ordination of two other bishops by
Beijing.
(Reuters)
-
Mahamat Nouri, until recently the
Chadian ambassador to
Saudi Arabia, who has previously served as the Chadian
Defense Minister, defects to
Sudan and joins the
United Front for Democratic Change rebels.
(Reuters)
-
Grant McLennan, co-founder of the legendary Australian band
The Go-Betweens dies at age 48, while sleeping in his house at
Brisbane,
Australia, from a reported
heart attack.
- The
People's Action Party is returned to government in
Singapore for the twelfth time, winning 82 out of 84 seats with the ruling party winning 66.6% of the total votes in the
2006 general election.
(CNA)
- The starboard engine of the
cruise liner
The Calypso, sailing from
Tilbury to
St Peter Port on
Guernsey, catches fire at 4 am, 16 miles off
Eastbourne, southeast of the
British coast. Its
crew puts the fire out, after its 708 passengers are moved into its
lifeboats. Rescue
lifeboats attend but neither these nor the ship's lifeboats are needed.
(Yahoo News).
- The
People's Republic of China plans to launch
satellites for lunar surveying, probing the
moon's surface,
physiognomy, landform and geological structure.
(People's Daily)