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Ongoing events

Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage)
Tsunami relief
Cedar Revolution in Lebanon
Kyrgyz revolution in Kyrgyzstan
German Visa Affair 2005
Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan
Fuel prices skyrocket
Anti-Japanese demonstrations in China
Election of OAS Secretary General

Upcoming events

April 18: Beginning of Papal conclave
April 24: 50th Bandung Conference

Deaths in April

9: Andrea Dworkin
6: Prince Rainier III
5: Dale Messick
5: Saul Bellow
2: Pope John Paul II

Ongoing armed conflicts

Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
Conflict in Chechnya
Second Congo War
Conflict in Iraq (Occupation of Iraq)
Darfur conflict in Sudan
Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire

Upcoming holidays

April 14: Youth Day (Angola)
April 21: Ridvan
April 22: Earth Day (United States)
April 23: Passover
April 25: ANZAC Day
April 29: Orthodox Good Friday
April 30: Orthodox Holy Saturday
April 30: Reunification Day (Vietnam)
May 1: May Day
May 1: Orthodox Easter
May 2: Orthodox Easter Monday
May 3: Constitution Day (Poland)
May 5: Cinco de Mayo
May 5: Ascension Day
May 8: Mother's Day (U.S., elsewhere)
May 10: Mother's Day (Latin America, Asia)
May 15: Pentecost
May 27: Lag Ba'omer

Upcoming elections

April 18: Papal election
May 5: UK general
May 17: British Columbia general
June 17: Iran presidential
June 19: Guinea-Bissau presidential
September 12: Norwegian parliamentary
2005: New Zealand general
2005: Polish parliamentary & presidential

Recent election results

February 27: Kyrgyz parliamentary
March 6: Moldovan parliamentary
March 12: Maltese Local Council Elections
March 13: Central African Rep. federal
March 13: Liechtenstein parliamentary
March 31: Zimbabwe parliamentary

Ongoing trials

Chile: Augusto Pinochet
ICTY: Slobodan Milošević
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
Saddam Hussein, among others
India: Best Bakery case
India: Jayendra Saraswathi
Netherlands: Volkert van der Graaf
Netherlands: Mohammed Bouyeri
United States: Michael Jackson
United States: Zacarias Moussaoui
United States: Brian Nichols
United States: Dennis Rader

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