Portal:Current events/December 2005/Sidebar

Events

Ongoing Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal Al Jazeera bombing memo Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak Black sites scandal Iran's nuclear program Malawi food crisis Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal NSA Spying Controversy North Indian cyclone season South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season Pacific typhoon season Plame CIA leak investigation Australian region cyclone season South Pacific cyclone season Stormontgate affair Tropical Storm Zeta World Pyro Olympics

Deaths
7: Devan Nair 7: Rigoberto Alpizar 9: Robert Sheckley 10: Eugene McCarthy 10: Richard Pryor 12: Ramanand Sagar 12: Gebran Tueni 13: Stanley Williams 15: James Freed 15: William Proxmire 16: John Spencer 17: Jack Anderson 19: Vincent Gigante 24: Michael Vale 24: Wang Daohan 25: Joseph Pararajasingham 25: Birgit Nilsson 26: John Diebold 26: Kerry Packer 26: Vincent Schiavelli

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

Elections
3: Taiwan, Local 3: Kazakhstan, President 4: Venezuela, Parliament 7: St. Vinc. & Grenadines, Parliament 11: Chile, Parliament 15: Iraq, Parliament 18: Bolivia, President 18: Tanzania, General 24: Pitcairn Is., Council

Trials
Chile: Alberto Fujimori Chile: Augusto Pinochet Indonesia: Bali Nine Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others Libya: Bulgarian nurses & Ashraf al-Hajuj 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