Template:In the news

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• North Korea (flag pictured) claims to have successfully detonated a nuclear weapon in an underground facility.

• Edmund Phelps wins the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy".

• Burning activities in Indonesia cause air quality and visibility to plummet to unhealthy levels across Southeast Asia.

• Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent critic of the Vladimir Putin administration, is murdered in Moscow.

• Georgia threatens to block Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization in response to the Georgia-Russia spying dispute.

• Lesotho adopts a new flag, incorporating the traditional Basotho hat.

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