Portal:Current events/2005 October 11

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[edit] 11 October 2005 (Tuesday)

• Conflict in Iraq: Insurgent suicide bomb attacks leave over 30 people dead in Talafar, North West Iraq. (BBC)
• Conflict in Afghanistan: 18 Afghan police die following an ambush in Halmand, southern Afghanistan. (BBC)
• 2005 Malawi food crisis: SOS Children launches emergency food program around Lilongwe and Mzuzu Malawi Crisis
• Liberian elections, 2005: Liberians head for the poll today to select a new president, 30 senators and 64 representatives for the lower house of parliament. (allAfrica)
• Divers off Portsmouth harbour raise the anchor and part of the bow of the wreck of the Tudor period warship Mary Rose, which sank in 1545. (BBC)