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* Cone Five, an indie noise-pop band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, active from 1999 to 2006

A band of Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels in Ethiopia, 2006

* Chimera ( Andromeda album ), a 2006 album by Swedish progressive metal band Andromeda

* The indie rock band The Essex Green recorded a song titled " Elsinore " for their 2006 album Cannibal Sea.

Bauhaus ( band ) | Bauhaus — Live in concert, 3 February 2006

Lee appeared in Broken Social Scene's music video for their 2006 single " Fire Eye'd Boy ", judging the band while they perform various musical tasks, and in 2006, Lee joined Lifeson's supergroup the Big Dirty Band, to provide songs accompanying Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.

In 2006, Sixx published his diaries as a best selling novel: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, and in 2007 Sixx's side project band Sixx: A. M. released The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack as a musical parallel to the novel.

The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006.

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

In 2006, the band played several one-off live dates as well as short tours in the UK, Brazil and Argentina.

At the end of the Buenos Aires show in November 2006, Peter Hook suggested that the band should stop touring.

In September 2011, the band announced that they would perform for the first time since 2006, at the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels on 17 October and at the Bataclan, Paris on 18 October.

The band continued to make appearances through 2006 and 2007, culminating in their first-ever appearances in Australia.

Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band of a lead vocalist, guitarist, bassist, and drummer

During promotional interviews for the R30 Live In Frankfurt DVD, the band revealed their intention to begin writing new material in early 2006.

The band officially entered Allaire Studios, in Shokan, New York in November 2006 in order to record the bulk of the material.

Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out series of dates of Australia in 2005 and then in 2006 returned to the US to promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and major press, radio and television appearances.

During July 2006, the band toured Europe.

The band covered the Beatles hit " Good Day Sunshine " for the 2006 album All Together Now: Beatles Stuff for Kids of All Ages.

The band was awarded the lifetime achievement award at the annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards in February 2006.

In March 2006, the band played their first U. S. dates with Shane in over 15 years.

In May 2006, Roberts left the band, and The Stranglers were now back to a four-piece line-up: Burnel, Black, Greenfield and Warne, with the lead vocals shared between Warne and Burnel.

In March 2006, the band released their eighth studio album, Flat-Pack Philosophy, on Cooking Vinyl Records, the supporting tour found them playing on a leg of the mid-2006 Vans Warped Tour.

On March 27, 2006, the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed a five-year, $ 235. 65 million compact with the Government of Armenia.

Much of the air defense system is integrated into the Russian defense network, and in 2006 the two nations signed an agreement on the creation of a unified air defense system.

Although the Government of Chad and the Government of Sudan signed the Tripoli Agreement on February 8, 2006, officially ending hostilities, fighting continues.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

In October 2006, Bachelet promulgated a multilateral trade deal with New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei, the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership ( P4 ), also signed under Lagos ' presidency.

The two governments signed a document to bolster cooperation in Havana in January 2006.

The Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 agreement in 2006 with China's ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide optical fiber cable network.

Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

It was signed into law on October 13, 2006 by President George W. Bush.

In the 2006 offseason, the team signed Preston Wilson and moved Berkman to first base, ending the long tenure of Jeff Bagwell.

To reiterate this point 19 African countries signed the " Accra Declaration " in 2006 calling for a total ivory trade ban and 20 range states attended a meeting in Kenya calling for a 20 year moratorium in 2007.

On September 29, 2006, ICANN signed a new agreement with the United States Department of Commerce ( DOC ) that moves the private organization towards full management of the Internet's system of centrally coordinated identifiers through the multi-stakeholder model of consultation that ICANN represents.

The context of ICANN's relationship with the U. S. government was clarified on September 29, 2006 when ICANN signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Department of Commerce ( DOC ).

In 2006, Japanese and Cambodian governments signed an agreement outlining a new Japanese aid program worth US $ 59 million.

In 2006, Alexander signed on to feature as a regular cast member in the second season of Everybody Hates Chris.

Frost again signed to Low Profile Records and released his album Till The Wheels Fall Off in 2006.

In November 2006, the Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 million US dollar deal with ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide fibre optical cable network to help improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services not just in Kabul but throughout the country.

Looking for a quick turnaround, general manager Allard Baird signed several veteran players prior to the 2006 season, including Doug Mientkiewicz, Mark Grudzielanek, Joe Mays and Scott Elarton.

Mechanised Infantry Brigade “ Iron Wolf ” was affiliated to the Danish Division on the basis of agreements signed by Denmark and Lithuania in August 2006.

* Agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Income and Capital Tax evasion ( signed 23. 05. 2006 )

Madagascar became the first country with a Millennium Challenge Account compact when it signed an agreement worth $ 110 million in April 2006.

Among the various free trade agreements that Morocco has ratified with its principal economic partners, are The Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the European Free Trade Association at the horizons of 2012 ; the Agadir Agreement, signed with Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, within the framework of the installation of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area ; the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement with United States which came into force on 1 January 2006, and lately the agreement of free exchange with Turkey.

On May 2006 TransTeleCom Company and North Korea ’ s Ministry of Communications have signed an agreement for the construction and joint operation of a fiber-optic transmission line ( FOTL ) in the section of the Khasan – Tumangang railway checkpoint.

30 October 2006: President Olusegun Obasanjo signed a contract with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to modernise the Lagos to Kano railway line.

22 March 2006: in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria ’ s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “ fast ” rail ( RFR ) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja ( where there is no existing railway ) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.