Ongoing events
• Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal
• Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes of 2005
• 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
• Niger food crisis
• Peace Mission 2005
• Philippine electoral crisis
• Plame CIA leak investigation
• Zimbabwe home clearances
Upcoming events
August 31: Venice Film Festival
September 6: John Roberts hearings
October 15: Millions More March
Deaths in August
August 23: Brock Peters
August 21: Robert Moog
August 19: Mo Mowlam
August 18: Gao Xiumin
August 16: Frère Roger
August 13: David Lange
August 9: Judith Rossner
August 8: John H. Johnson
August 8: Ahmed Deedat
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
Upcoming elections
September 7: Egyptian 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.)
Recent election results
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
August 27: Singapore presidential
Ongoing armed conflicts
• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
• Conflict in Chechnya
• Second Congo War
• Conflict in Iraq
• Darfur conflict in Sudan
• Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
Upcoming holidays and observances
August
27: Janmashtami, Krishna's Birthday (Hinduism)
29: August Bank Holiday (UK)
29: Beheading of St. John the Forerunner (Eastern Christianity)
September
5: Labor Day (Canada & USA)
Ongoing trials
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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