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Events
	Upcoming - December none entered; Upcoming - January 11: Launch of New Horizons probe Ongoing • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal; • Al Jazeera bombing memo; • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak; • Black sites scandal; • Petroleum prices; • Iran's nuclear program ; • Malawi food crisis; • Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal; • NSA Spying Controversy; • Niger food crisis; • North Indian cyclone season; • Operation Romeo scandal; • Pacific typhoon season; • Plame CIA leak investigation; • Southern Hemisphere cyclone season; • Stormontgate affair; Recent • Delhi bombings; • Jilin chemical plant explosions; • Kashmir earthquake; • WTO Ministerial Conference;

Recent Deaths
	December 26: Kerry Packer; 26: Vincent Schiavelli; 25: Joseph Pararajasingham; 19: Vincent Gigante; 17: Jack Anderson; 16: John Spencer; 15: James Freed; 15: William Proxmire; 13: Stanley Williams; 12: Ramanand Sagar; 12: Gebran Tueni ; 10: Eugene McCarthy ; 10: Richard Pryor ; 9: Robert Sheckley ; 7: Devan Nair ; 7: Rigoberto Alpizar ; 3: Peter Cook ; 2: Kenneth Boyd ; 2: Van Tuong Nguyen ;

Elections
Upcoming - January 8: Haiti, Pres. and Legisl. 15: Chile, President runoff 15: Finland, President 1st round 22: Portugal, President 23: Canada, Parliament 25: Palestinian Nat'l Auth., Parliament 29: Finland, President 2nd round Results - November 27: Armenia, Referendum 27: Honduras, General 27: D.R. Congo, Referendum 27: Gabon, President Results - December 3: Taiwan, Mayor 3: Kazakh presidential 4: Venezuela parliamentary 7: St. Vinc. & Grenadines, Parliament 11: Chile, Parliament 15: Iraq, Parliament 18: Bolivia, General 18: Tanzania, General 24: Pitcairn Islands, Council

Upcoming holidays and observances
December 30: Rizal Day (Philippines) 31: New Year's Eve (Gregorian calendar) January 1: New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar) 10: Eid ul-Adha (Islam) (begins at sunset, depends on Moon) 13: Bhogi (India) 26: Australia Day (Australia)

Ongoing armed conflicts
• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) • Second Chechen War • Second Congo War • Conflict in Iraq • Darfur conflict in Sudan • Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire • Conflict in northern Uganda • South Thailand insurgency • Chad-Sudan conflict

Trials
Upcoming Israel: Mordechai Vanunu U.S.: Conrad Black Ongoing Chile: Alberto Fujimori Chile: Augusto Pinochet Indonesia: Bali Nine Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Libya: Bulgarian nurses & Ashraf al-Hajuj — Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICTY — Slobodan Milošević, among others Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui U.S.: Brian Nichols

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