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• 2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Tsunami relief • Cedar Revolution in Lebanon • Tulip revolution : Kyrgyz revolution • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Anti-Japanese textbook protests in China • Election of OAS Secretary General • Stanislav Gross scandal in Czech republic
• 26: Augusto Roa Bastos • 24: Ezer Weizman • 23: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen • 23: John Mills • 16: Marla Ruzicka • 9: Andrea Dworkin • 6: Prince Rainier III • 5: Dale Messick • 5: Saul Bellow • 2: Pope John Paul II • 1: Harald Juhnke
May 5: UK general May 17: British Columbia general May 29: Lebanon general June 17: Iran presidential June 19: Guinea-Bissau presidential September 12: Norwegian parliamentary 2005: New Zealand general 2005: Polish parliamentary & presidential
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 April 24: Togo presidential
• 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
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Chile: Augusto Pinochet ICTY: Slobodan Milošević Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others India: Best Bakery case India: Jayendra Saraswathi Indonesia: Schapelle Corby Netherlands: Mohammed Bouyeri United States: Michael Jackson United States: Zacarias Moussaoui United States: Brian Nichols United States: Dennis Rader United States: Ali Al-Tamimi
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