Portal:Current events/2005 November 8
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- Liberian elections, 2005: Liberians go to the polls in a presidential runoff between millionaire soccer star George Weah and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former finance minister known as the "Iron Lady". (Reuters) (Link dead as of 22:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC)) (Scotsman) (CBC)
- U.S. General Election, 2005:
- French President Jacques Chirac declares a state of emergency on the 12th day of the civil unrest. Chirac's move followed the re-activation in a cabinet emergency session of a 1955 law allowing local authorities to impose curfews. (New York Times) (registation required), (CNN)
- Trials of Saddam Hussein: Three gunmen assassinate Adel al-Zubeidi, the defense lawyer for Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former Iraqi Vice President under Saddam Hussein. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 22:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC))
- Italian state-owned channel RaiNews 24 airs a controversial documentary in which Iraqi people and ex-U.S. soldiers report that white phosphorus, a chemical weapon, and Mk-77 napalm bombs were used by the U.S. Army against civilians in Fallujah last year. (BBC) (Rai News 24, with video)
- Australian police claim to have disrupted a large-scale terrorist attack as 17 suspects, allegedly led by Abdul Nacer Benbrika, are arrested in Melbourne and Sydney following raids. (Sydney Morning Herald) (CNN)
- The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) says that the Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research is about to start a controversial program that could kill up to 940 whales in the name of scientific research, abusing the rights under the International Whaling Convention. (abc.net.au) (IOL)
