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- Thousands of Mexican Police Officers Raid Oaxaca; In the Mexican city of Oaxaca, thousands of federal police backed with armored vehicles and helicopters have raided the southern city in an attempt to crush the popular uprising in the region. Federal police have reportedly seized control of the city square. At least two protesters died last night including a 15-year-old boy. (Democracy now!)
- NYC Indymedia Journalist Brad Will Shot Dead in Oaxaca; On Friday gunmen with ties to the government shot and killed three other people including the U.S. journalist and activist Brad Will. Five men connected to Will’s shooting have been turned over to state authorities. The suspected gunmen have been identified as two members of the local city hall, two police officers and the former justice of the peace of a nearby town. Brad Will was filming on his videocamera when he was shot in the stomach. The sound of the shooting was captured on his camera. A protest is scheduled outside the Mexican Consulate in New York this morning at nine. (Democracy now!)
- U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Tops 100 in October; In Iraq, the U.S. death toll for the month has topped 100. October has been the deadliest month of the year for U.S. troops. In Baghdad, at least 30 Iraqis have died after a large bomb exploded earlier today in the Shiite district of Sadr city. The bombing occurred even though Sadr City has been under a U.S. siege for the past five days. In Basra, gunmen killed 15 Iraqi police instructors and two translators on Sunday. Overall at least 83 Iraqis died yesterday. Meanwhile on Saturday a U.S. air strike in the city of Ramadi killed six Iraqis including three women and two children. Local residents condemned the attack. Unnamed Iraqi: "U.S. forces demolished this house. We came in the morning and we found three dead civilians and three others were still missing.”(Democracy now!)
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- President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov is reelected after a run-off election with Volen Siderov in the presidential elections. (EITB)
- 2006 Bajaur airstrike: Pakistani helicopter gunships fired missiles and destroyed an al-Qaeda-linked training facility and killed 80 suspected terrorists in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border, in a madrassa near the town of Khar. (Reuters AlertNet)
- The Israeli cabinet has approved the addition of the Yisrael Beitenu party into the governing coalition. (BBC News)
- Sir Nicholas Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank, submits a report to the British Government warning of the economic costs and damage to the world that could result from global warming. (The Times)
- Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer, Khalil al-Duleimi, walks out of court after 12 of his requests were rejected, but the chief judge immediately appoints other attorneys to defend the deposed President of Iraq. (USA Today)
- Specialist Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie, an Iraqi American United States Army soldier currently listed as missing in action in Iraq, is reported to have married an Iraqi citizen, against U.S. military regulations. (MSNBC)
- A bomb at a Baghdad market kills 31 people and wounds more than 50 others. (AP via ABC News America)
- Super Typhoon Cimaron, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in eight years, kills at least three people as it makes landfall in Luzon. (Reuters), (Reuters)
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