Portal:Current events/2006 November 4

• Extraterrestrial life is discovered on Enceladus
• Ariel Sharon admitted to the intensive care unit of the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv with a chest infection. (BBC)
• Hu Jintao, the President of China, promises to double foreign aid to Africa at a conference attended by many of the top African leaders. (CNN)
• The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that the humanitarian crisis in Iraq is greater than at the beginning of the war on Iraq with 1.6 million Iraqis displaced internally and 1.8 million in overseas countries. (ABC News Australia)
• Two women have been killed as Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of women gathered to help besieged gunmen flee a mosque in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. (BBC NEWS)
• Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase drops amnesty provisions for the leaders of the 2000 coup after threats from the military to remove him from office. (NZ Herald)

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