Ongoing events
• 2005 Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes
• 2005 Maharashtra floods
• 2005 Gujarat Flood
• Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan
• Fuel prices
• Gomery Comm. (Sponsorship scandal)
• Bagram torture and prisoner abuse
• Downing Street memo
• Angola Marburg virus outbreak
• European Constitution Ratification
• London bombings investigation
• Zimbabwe Home Clearances
• 2005 Philippine electoral crisis
• Plame CIA leak investigation
• 2005 Niger food crisis
• Wikimania
Upcoming events
August 8: STS-114 Space Shuttle landing
August 31: Venice Film Festival
September 6: John Roberts hearings
Deaths in August
August 1: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
August 5: Raul Roco
Upcoming elections
August 27: Singapore presidential
September 12: Norwegian parliamentary
September 17: New Zealand general
September 18: German federal
September 25: Polish parliamentary
October 9: Polish presidential
TBD: CA 48th Congressional District (U.S.)
Recent election results
June 17: Iran presidential
June 24: Iran presidential runoff
July 3: Albanian general election
July 10: Kyrgyz presidential
July 16: Kuomintang Chairmanship
July 24: Guinea-Bissau 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 and observances
August
9: National Day (Singapore)
14: Tisha B'Av (Judaism)
15: Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox)
15: Assumption of Mary (Roman Catholicism)
15: Independence Day (India)
15: Victory over Japan Day
19: Transfiguration (Eastern Orthodox)
29: Late Summer Holiday (UK)
September
5: Labor Day (Canada & USA)
Ongoing trials
Chile: Augusto Pinochet
ICTY: Slobodan Milošević
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
— Saddam Hussein, among others
Singapore: Took Leng How
UK: Railtrack shareholders
US: Zacarias Moussaoui
US: Brian Nichols
US: Ali al-Tamimi
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