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- Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres announces he is leaving the Labour Party and transferring his support to current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
- Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant.
- Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meet to discuss a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.
- A general election is scheduled in Canada for January 23 after Paul Martin's minority government loses a motion of no confidence and Parliament is dissolved.
- The 23rd Southeast Asian Games continue in the Philippines.