Portal:Current events/April 2006/Sidebar

Deaths
2: Nina von Stauffenberg 2: Michael J. Novosel 4: Denis Donaldson 5: Gene Pitney 8: Gerard Reve 11: DeShaun "Proof" Holton 11: June Pointer 12: William Sloane Coffin 12: Rajkumar 13: Muriel Spark 19: Scott Crossfield 22: Alida Valli 23: Ghafar Baba 24: Steve Stavro 25: Jane Jacobs 25: Peter Law 27: Julia Thorne 29: John Kenneth Galbraith 30: Paul Spiegel

Events

Abramoff scandal Ariel Sharon illness Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak Black sites scandal CIA leak grand jury investigation Cole Inquiry Demonstrations in Nepal Formation of a new Iraqi government Horn of Africa food crisis Iran's nuclear program Liberal leadership race in Canada Malawi food crisis Montenegrin independence campaign Muhammad cartoons controversy North Indian cyclone season NSA warrantless surveillance controversy Pacific typhoon season Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

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

Elections
2: Thailand, Legislative (Lower house) 9: Peru, President (1st Round) and legislature 9 and 10: Italy, Parliament 9: Hungary, Parliament (1st Round) 17: India, State legislature 19: Thailand, Legislature (Upper house) 21: Haiti, Parliament (2nd Round) 23: Hungary, Parliament (2nd Round) 27: Scotland, Moray by-election 30: Laos, Parliamentary

Trials

Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, for charges related to the 2005 elections Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor South Africa: Jacob Zuma UK: Leo O'Connor and David Keogh U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui