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Ongoing events
&bull; Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal &bull; Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes of 2005 &bull; Cindy Sheehan Crawford Protest &bull; Downing Street memo &bull; Edinburgh Festival &bull; European Constitution ratification &bull; Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan &bull; Fuel prices &bull; Gomery Comm. (sponsorship scandal) &bull; Iran's nuclear program &bull; Israeli withdrawal from Gaza &bull; London bombings investigation &bull; Niger food crisis &bull; Peace Mission 2005 &bull; Philippine electoral crisis &bull; Plame CIA leak investigation &bull; Zimbabwe home clearances

Upcoming events
August 31: Venice Film Festival September 6: John Roberts hearings October 15: Millions More March

Deaths in August
August 23: Brock Peters

August 21: Robert Moog

August 19: Mo Mowlam

August 18: Gao Xiumin

August 16: Frère Roger

August 13: David Lange

August 9: Judith Rossner

August 8: John H. Johnson

August 8: Ahmed Deedat

August 8: Barbara Bel Geddes

August 7: Peter Jennings

August 6: Robin Cook

August 6: Ibrahim Ferrer

August 5: Raul Roco

August 4: Little Milton

August 3: Ernest Smith

August 1: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia


 * Recent deaths

Upcoming elections
September 7: Egyptian presidential September 11: Japanese general September 12: Norwegian parliamentary September 17: New Zealand general September 18: German federal September 25: Polish parliamentary October 9: Polish presidential TBD: CA 48th Congressional District (U.S.)


 * Electoral calendar

Recent election results
June 24: Iran presidential runoff July 3: Albanian general election July 10: Kyrgyz presidential July 16: Kuomintang Chairmanship July 24: Guinea-Bissau presidential August 2: OH 2nd Congressional District (U.S.) August 10: Ethiopian presidential August 27: Singapore presidential

Ongoing armed conflicts
&bull; Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) &bull; Conflict in Chechnya &bull; Second Congo War &bull; Conflict in Iraq &bull; Darfur conflict in Sudan &bull; Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
 * Ongoing wars

August
27: Janmashtami, Krishna's Birthday (Hinduism) 29: August Bank Holiday (UK) 29: Beheading of St. John the Forerunner (Eastern Christianity)

September
5: Labor Day (Canada & USA)

Ongoing trials
Chile: Augusto Pinochet Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal &mdash; Saddam Hussein, among others Neth.: ICTY &mdash; Slobodan Milo&, among others UK: Railtrack shareholders US: Zacarias Moussaoui US: Brian Nichols US: Ali al-Tamimi

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