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• Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Angola Marburg virus outbreak • Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes of 2005 • Bagram torture and prisoner abuse • Cindy Sheehan Crawford Protest • Downing Street memo • Edinburgh Festival • European Constitution ratification • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. (sponsorship scandal) • Iran's nuclear program • Israeli withdrawal from Gaza • London bombings investigation • Maharashtra floods • Niger food crisis • Philippine electoral crisis • Plame CIA leak investigation • World Youth Day 2005 • Zimbabwe home clearances
August 31: Venice Film Festival September 6: John Roberts hearings
August 13: David Lange August 9: Judith Rossner August 8: John H. Johnson August 8: Barbara Bel Geddes August 7: Peter Jennings August 6: Robin Cook August 6: Ibrahim Ferrer August 5: Raul Roco August 4: Little Milton August 3: Ernest Smith August 1: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
August 27: Singapore presidential September 11: Japanese general 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.)
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 August 2: OH 2nd Congressional District (U.S.) August 10: Ethiopian 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
19: Transfiguration (Eastern Orthodox) 29: August Bank Holiday (UK)
5: Labor Day (Canada & USA)
Chile: Augusto Pinochet Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others Neth.: ICTY — Slobodan Milošević, among others UK: Railtrack shareholders US: Zacarias Moussaoui US: Brian Nichols US: Ali al-Tamimi
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