January 10, 2006 (Tuesday)
- The defence lawyer in the O'Connor - Keogh official secrets trial is shown the secret Al Jazeera bombing memo and declares that it posed no threat to national security. He vows to have it made public by the court. The case will return to court on January 24. (The Guardian) (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Amnesty International claims torture and ill-treatment of terrorist suspects on the fourth anniversary of detainees being held without charge at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Forbes)
- Japanese whalers and anti-whaling environmental groups continue to clash in Antarctic waters near Australia, as calls for the Australian Government to intervene intensify. (ABC)
- Ukraine's parliament dismisses the Cabinet over its gas deal with Russia. (Yahoo!)
- Iran's standoff from the UN and the west deepens as the UN seals on the Natanz nuclear processing plant are broken. (BBC)
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair sets out his Respect agenda. (BBC)
- A fifteenth case of H5N1 is reported in Turkey. However, the Turkish government declares that the virus is "under control". (BBC)
- The Pakistani army announces that seven soldiers and fourteen suspected militants have been killed in fighting in the Waziristan area. (BBC)