Current events of 7 October 2006 (2006-10-07) (Saturday) edit history watch

New Guinea volcano Rabaul caldera erupts. Two hundred people are evacuated but favourable winds help protect nearby towns from the impact. (ABC News Australia) Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, famous for her criticism of President Vladimir Putin and his government's actions in Chechnya, is found murdered in Moscow. (Interfax), (BBC) Sixty warning shots are fired by South Korean soldiers at the Korean Demilitarized Zone after they observe five North Korean soldiers crossing part of the boundary. (AP via CNN) Latvian parliamentary election: The governing coalition led by Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis wins re-election, the first Latvian administration to be re-elected since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (BBC)