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Ongoing events

2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland
Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage)
German Visa Affair 2005
Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan
Fuel prices
Election of OAS Secretary General
Stanislav Gross scandal in Czech republic

Upcoming events

Deaths in May

May 3: Jagjit Singh Aurora
May 3: Don Canham
May 2: Bob Hunter

Upcoming elections

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

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
April 24: Togo presidential

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

May

4: World Asthma Day
4: Youth Day (People's Republic of China)
4: Literary Day (Republic of China)
5: Kodomo no hi (Japan)
5: Children's Day (South Korea)
5: Liberation day (The Netherlands)
5: Cinco de Mayo
5: National Day of Prayer
5: Ascension Day
6: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Israel)
8: Mother's Day (U.S., elsewhere)
8: Victory in Europe Day (Western Europe)
9: Victory Day (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)
9: Europe Day
10: Mother's Day (Latin America, Asia)
11: Fallen Soldiers Remembrance Day (Israel)
12: Israeli Independence Day
15: Pentecost (Western Christianity)
16: Whit Monday (Western Christianity)
17: Constitution Day (Norway)
19: Ataturk Commemoration (Turkey)
21: Armed Forces Day (United States)
22: Trinity Sunday (Catholicism)
23: Buddha Purnima (Buddhism)
23: Victoria Day (Canada)
24: St.Cyril and Methodius Day (Bulgaria)
25: Revolution Anniversary Day (Argentina)
26: Feast of Corpus Christi (Catholicism)
27: Lag Ba'omer
29: Feast of Corpus Christi (Only U.S.)
30: Memorial Day (United States)
30: Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day (Fiji)

June

2: Republic Day (Italy)
5: UN World Environment Day (San Francisco)
6: Jerusalem Day (Israel)

Ongoing trials

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 (BTK Killer)
United States: Ali Al-Tamimi

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