Portal:Current events/December 2005/Sidebar

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; edit sidebar

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; edit sidebar

Events
	Ongoing[edit] 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; edit sidebar

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 edit sidebar

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 edit sidebar