Portal:Current events/October 2006/Sidebar

[edit] Ongoing

• Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
• Belgian False Flag Terror arrests
• Benedict XVI Islam controversy
• Black sites scandal
• Cole Inquiry
• East Timor military and political crisis
• Immigration law debates in the US
• Iran's nuclear program
• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
• Operación Puerto doping case
• Taiwan political crisis

[edit] Natural disasters

• Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Isaac
• North Indian cyclone season
• Pacific hurricane season
• Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Xangsane
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

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• Acholiland insurgency
• Arab-Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada)
  • 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict
  • 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
• Darfur conflict in Sudan
• Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
• Iraq War
• Ituri conflict in the DR Congo
• Ivorian Civil War
• Nepal Civil War
• Second Chechen War
• South Thailand insurgency

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• 1: Austria, Legislative
• 1: Bosnia and Herzegovina, General Election
• 1: Brazil, General Election
• 7: Latvia, Parliament
• 8: Belgium, Municipal
• 15: Greece, Municipal
• 15: Ecuador, General Elections
• 22: Bulgaria, President
• 22: Panama, Panama Canal expansion Referendum
• 28, 29: Serbia, Referendum on Constitution
• October 29: Brazil, General Elections (2nd round)
• October 29: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Presidential Run-off

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• Peru: Alberto Fujimori (extradition)
• Chile: Augusto Pinochet
• Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, on charges related to the 2005 elections.
• Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
  • Saddam Hussein & military chiefs of staff
• Netherlands: ICC
  • Thomas Lubanga
• Netherlands: ICTY
• Sierra Leone: SCfSL
  • Charles Taylor
• UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh
• U.S.: Brian Nichols
• U.S.: Jeffrey Skilling (sentencing)
• U.S.: Tom DeLay

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• 1: Yom Kippur (Judaism, begins at sunset)
• 2: Gandhi Jayanti (India)
• 2: Dussera (India)
• 2: Labour Day (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia)
• 3: German Unity Day (Germany)
• 4: World Animal Day
• 5: World Teachers' Day
• 5: Republic Day (Portugal)
• 6: German-American Day (United States)
• 6: Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese lunar calendar)
• 6: Sukkot begins at sunset (Judaism)
• 9: Hangul Day (South Korea)
• 9: Health and Sports Day (Japan)
• 9: Thanksgiving (Canada)
• 9: Leif Erikson Day (United States)
• 9: Columbus Day (United States)
• 10: Double Tenth Day (Taiwan)
• 11: General Pulaski Memorial Day (United States)
• 11: National Coming Out Day (United States)
• 12: Hispanic Day (Spain)
• 12: Day of Indigenous Resistance (Venezuela)
• 12: Children's Day (Brazil)
• 12: Our Lady Aparecida's Day (Brazil)
• 13: Shemini Atzeret begins at sunset (Judaism)
• 14: Simchat Torah begins at sunset (Judaism)
• 14: Teachers' Day (Poland)
• 15: White Cane Safety Day (United States)
• 16: World Food Day
• 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
• 18: Alaska Day (Alaska)
• 19: Mother Teresa Day (Albania)
• 20: Birth of the Báb (Bahá'í calendar)
• 20: Al-Quds Day (Iran)
• 21: Diwali (Hinduism)
• 21: Trafalgar Day (United Kingdom, Australia)
• 21: Sweetest Day (United States)
• 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
• 23: Chulalongkorn Memorial Day (Thailand)
• 23: Eid ul-Fitr begins at sunset (Islam, est.)
• 23: Labour Day (New Zealand)
• 24: United Nations Day
• 25: Armed Forces Day (Romania)
• 25: Retrocession Day (Taiwan)
• 25: Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
• 26: Angam Day (Nauru)
• 26: National Day (Austria)
• 28: Okhi Day (Greece)
• 29: Republic Day (Turkey)
• 30: Double Ninth Festival (Chinese lunar calendar)
• 31: Reformation Day (Protestantism)
• 31: Halloween

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