Prior to the creation of the group management board in 2006, HSBC's chairman essentially held the duties of a chief executive at an equivalent institution, while HSBC's chief executive served as the deputy.

In 2006 the former Macedonian Premier and chief of IMRO-DPMNE Ljubčo Georgievski became a Bulgarian citizen.

In a February 2006 interview, former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir answered direct questions:

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

* In 2006, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP .. negotiated a major settlement with The American International Group on behalf of its client, C. V. Starr, a firm controlled by Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive of A. I. G.

On July 5, 2006, Robert Sorich, Daley's patronage chief and director of the Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Timothy McCarthy, Sorich's aide, were each convicted on two counts of mail fraud connected to rigging blue-collar city jobs and promotions.

Under the Government of Wales Act 2006, the Counsel General is the chief legal adviser to the Welsh Assembly Government.

On July 31, 2006, during the 2006 Cuban transfer of duties, Fidel Castro delegated his duties as President ( Dictator ) of the Council of state, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and the post of commander in chief of the armed forces to first Vice President Raúl Castro.

After the Blue Takeover of 2006, the Clean Government Movement became the chief instrument of change in the coal mining towns of Eastern Kentucky.

Michael Scheuer, described in 2006 by the Washington Times as " a 22-year veteran with the CIA, created and served as the chief of the agency ’ s Osama bin Laden unit at the Counterterrorist Center.

In 2006, an American Court convicted Khalid Awan of providing money and financial services to the Khalistan Commando Force chief Paramjit Singh Panjwar in Pakistan.

In 2006 Daniel Harding joined Michael Tilson Thomas as principal guest, and the following year Davis retired as chief conductor and was appointed president of the orchestra, its first since the death of Bernstein in 1990.

In December 2006, Gen. Thura Shwe Mann, Myanmar ’ s chief of general staff visited the Tata Motors plant in Pune.

In June 2006, chief executive Jack Messman and chief finance officer Joseph Tibbetts were fired, with Ronald Hovsepian, Novell's president and chief operating officer, appointed chief executive, and Dana Russell, vice-president of finance and corporate controller, appointed interim CFO.

: As of early 2006, the ANC government announced that it will start expropriating the land, although according to the country's chief land-claims commissioner, Tozi Gwanya, unlike Zimbabwe there will be compensation to those whose land is expropriated, " but it must be a just amount, not inflated sums.

As recently as 2006 the " Council of Elders " of the Dagaaba community of Ghana attempted to unite various factions with the appointment of Naa Franklin Suantah, Principal Librarian of the Saint Louis Training College of Kumasi as chief of the Dagaaba community in Ghana.

On June 8, 2006, Harris's fourth chief of staff, Fred Asbell, left in order to pursue a " business opportunity ".

In 2006 Kartika Sukarno married Frits Seegers, the Netherlands-born chief executive officer of the Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Bank.

Abdul Latif Sharif ( 1947 – June 1, 2006 ), was an Egyptian chemist and chief suspect in the Juárez killings, a decade-long murder spree that began in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez in the early 1990s.

In December 1999 Estonian foreign minister ( and since 2006, president of Estonia ) Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivered a speech entitled " Estonia as a Nordic Country " to the Swedish Institute for International Affairs .< ref >

On 26 May 2006, Italian foreign minister Massimo D ' Alema announced that the Italian forces would be reduced to 1, 600 by June ; Italian participation in the military operations in Iraq was concluded by the end of 2006, with full withdrawal of Italian military personnel except for a small group of about 30 soldiers engaged in providing security for the Italian embassy in Baghdad, and about 87 soldiers stationing in bases in the Persian Gulf ( but not in Iraqi territory ).

* 1915 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister ( d. 2006 )

On 14 March 2006, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, raiding a Jericho prison to capture PFLP general secretary, Ahmad Sa ' adat and five other prisoners charged with assassinating Israeli tourist minister Rehavam Zeevi who were about to be released.

Kalvītis was the first prime minister in the history of post-soviet independent Latvia whose government was reelected by an election in 2006.

The Estonian President Arnold Rüütel's state visit to Luxembourg was in May 2003, prime minister Andrus Ansip's in 2006.

It had a " president "— Georgette Bertin-Pourchet, elected in 2006 — a " prime minister " and numerous " citizens ".

On 19 July 2006, the prime minister, G. P. Koirala, sent a letter to the United Nations announcing the intention of the Nepalese government to hold elections to a constituent assembly by April 2007.

According to Israeli law, if a Prime Minister is temporarily incapacitated rather than dies ( as was the case following Ariel Sharon's stroke in early 2006 ), power is transferred to the Acting Prime Minister, until the prime minister recovers ( Ehud Olmert took over from Sharon ), for up to 100 days.

Nevertheless, Olmert was appointed interim prime minister on 16 April 2006, after the elections, just days before he had formed a government on 4 May 2006, to become the official prime minister.

Steve Bracks and Transport minister Peter Batchelor at the launch of the Regional Fast Rail project Geelong line upgrades in February 2006

In January 2006, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, died, and Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum assumed both roles.

In 2006 Karimov continued arbitrary dismissals and shifts of subordinates in the government, including one deputy prime minister.

The Uzbek deputy foreign minister indicated that the Uzbek government was interested in talks with the EU during a visit to Helsinki, Finland in June 2006, just before Finland assumed the EU presidency.

** John Profumo, British cabinet minister ( d. 2006 )

He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former prime minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as president after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election.

Two weeks later, on 10 July 2006, he was officially sworn in as the second prime minister of East Timor.

Antoine Gizenga, who served as Lumumba's Deputy Prime Minister in the post-independence period, was a 2006 Presidential candidate under the Unified Lumumbist Party ( Parti Lumumbiste Unifié ( PALU )) and was named prime minister at the end of the year.

In 2003 the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives merged to create the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Stephen Harper, a member of the Alliance Church, who went on to become prime minister in 2006.

The current prime minister, Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party of Canada, stated before taking office that he would hold a free vote on the issue, but declared the issue closed after a vote in the Canadian House of Commons in 2006.

In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave up the title of Patriarch of the West.

The pope previously used the title Patriarch of the West, but this title was dropped from use in 2006 a move which caused some concern within the Orthodox Communion as, to them, it implied wider papal jurisdiction.

On 26 April 2006 Lara was reappointed the captain of the West Indies cricket team for the third time.

In May 2006, Lara led the West Indies to successful One-Day series victories against Zimbabwe and India.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

The 2006 season started with some promise ; the Rockies were 44 – 43 in the first half of the season and were in contention in the NL West for much of the season.

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* 2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.

The Israeli Government-approved Israeli West Bank barrier | barrier route as of July 2006

Map of Israeli settlements ( magenta ) in the West Bank as of 2006

* 2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.

The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout after the match finished on 3 – 3.

At the end of the 1998 – 99 season, second tiers were added to the East and West Stands, raising capacity to around 67, 000, and between July 2005 and May 2006, 8, 000 more seats were added via second tiers in the north-west and north-east quadrants.

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

A barrier gate at Bil ' in, West Bank, 2006

The Padres started April 2006 with a 9 – 15 record and were stuck in the cellar of the NL West.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* 2006 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated by West Coast 12. 13 ( 85 ) to 12. 12 ( 84 )

Until 2006, Togo was very much a minor force in world football, but like fellow West African nations such as Senegal, Nigeria and Cameroon before them, the Togolese national team finally qualified for the World Cup.

The Rangers 2006 season ended with a disappointing 80 – 82 record and a third-place finish in the West.

* Helena-West Helena, Arkansas was formed in 2006 by the merger of the previous cities of Helena and West Helena.

Curry reprised this role in London's West End at the Palace Theatre, where Spamalot opened on 16 October 2006.

An online version of the latest edition can be accessed through the paid Westlaw legal information service and as of late 2006, West Academic has published Black's Law Dictionary Digital, 8th edition ( ISBN 9780314176103 ) which has toolbars that integrate with Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

( West Group, 2006 ), Bryan A. Garner, editor, ISBN 0-314-15862-6