Portal:Current events/2005 December 23

An Azeri passenger jet crashed after taking off from the Azerbaijan capital, Baku. (BBC)
Different sources report that Chadian president Idriss Déby has said his country is in a state of either "war" or "belligerence" with Sudan following a recent rebel attack in which around 100 people were killed. (BBC) (Reuters)
The 2012 Summer Olympics may have been given to London by a voting error, a senior IOC official theorised. (BBC)
Astronomers have discovered new moons and rings around Uranus using the Hubble Space Telescope. (CNN)
Lech Kaczyński was sworn in as President of the Republic of Poland. (BBC)
U.S. News and World Report claimed that the United States government has been monitoring mosques in the United States since September 11 for traces of radiation. (US News)
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