December 2005

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Deaths
26: John Diebold
26: Kerry Packer
26: Vincent Schiavelli
25: Joseph Pararajasingham
25: Birgit Nilsson
24: Michael Vale
24: Wang Daohan
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
1: Adam W. Kaiser
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

 Pacific typhoon season

 Plame CIA leak investigation

 Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

 Stormontgate affair

 Tropical Storm Zeta

 World Pyro Olympics

Recent :

 Delhi bombings

 Jilin chemical plant explosions

 Kashmir earthquake

 WTO Ministerial Conference
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Elections

Results :

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
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
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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 Miloevi, 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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