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Recent Deaths
January 5: Merlyn Rees 4: Irving Layton 4: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum 2: Steve Rogers

Upcoming - January 8: South African ruling party African National Congress will announce its candidates for the 2006 elections on the 94th anniversary of its conception. 17: Launch of New Horizons probe Ongoing • Ariel Sharon Illness • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Black sites scandal • Iran's nuclear program • Malawi food crisis • NSA Spying Controversy • North Indian cyclone season • Pacific typhoon season • Southern Hemisphere cyclone season • Stormontgate affair • Tropical Storm Zeta Recent • Al Jazeera bombing memo • Delhi bombings • Jilin chemical plant explosions • Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal • Plame affair • World Pyro Olympics

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 - December 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

Upcoming holidays and observances
January 10: Eid ul-Adha (Islam) (begins at sunset, depends on Moon) 13: Bhogi (India) 26: Australia Day (Australia) 29: Chinese New Year (China, Taiwan, Vietnam and others)

Ongoing armed conflicts
• Acholiland insurgency • Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) • Chad-Sudan conflict • Second Chechen War • Second Congo War • Darfur conflict in Sudan • Iraq War • Ivorian Civil War • Nepal Civil War • South Thailand insurgency

Trials

Upcoming Israel: Mordechai Vanunu U.S.: The Right Honourable Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC U.S.: I. Lewis Libby Jr. U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Ongoing 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 Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev United Kingdom: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui U.S.: Brian Nichols

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