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Ongoing events


• Allegations of Qur'an desecration
• 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2005 Pacific hurricane season
• Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan
• Fuel prices
• Gomery Comm. (Sponsorship scandal)
• Unrest in Uzbekistan
• Bagram torture and prisoner abuse
• Downing Street memo
• Angola Marburg virus outbreak
• European Constitution Ratification
• Confederations Cup 2005
• Zimbabwe Home Clearances
• Philippine electoral crisis, 2005

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Upcoming events

• Live 8
• July 6: 2012 Olympics site announced

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Deaths in June

June 21: Jaime Cardinal Sin
June 20: Jack Kilby
June 18: Syed Mushtaq Ali
June 13: Lane Smith
June 11: Juan José Saer
June 9: Richard Eberhart
June 6: Anne Bancroft
June 2: Chloe Jones
June 1: George Mikan

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Upcoming elections

June 24: Iran presidential runoff
July 10: Kyrgyz presidential
September 12: Norwegian parliamentary
2005: German federal
2005: New Zealand general
September 25: Polish parliamentary
October 9: Polish presidential

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Recent election results

April 24: Togo presidential
May 5: UK general
May 14: ROC (Taiwan) National Assembly
May 15: Ethiopian general elections
May 17: British Columbia general
May 29: Lebanon general
May 29: French EC referendum
June 1: Dutch EC referendum
June 17: Iran presidential

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Ongoing armed conflicts

• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
• Conflict in Chechnya
• Second Congo War
• Conflict in Iraq (Occupation of Iraq)
• Darfur conflict in Sudan
• Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire

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Upcoming holidays
and observances

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June

24: Fête nationale du Québec (Quebec)
26: Flag Day (Romania)

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July

1: Canada Day
4: Independence Day (U.S.)

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Ongoing trials

Chile: Augusto Pinochet
ICTY: Slobodan Milošević
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
— Saddam Hussein, among others
Netherlands: Mohammed Bouyeri
UK: Harry Kewell v. Gary Lineker
US: Zacarias Moussaoui
US: Brian Nichols
US: Dennis Rader (BTK Killer)
US: Ali al-Tamimi

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June 23 2005 (Thursday)

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June 22 2005 (Wednesday)

  • German car manufacturer BMW acquires the Formula 1 team Sauber Petronas. In the next season the new team will be probably known as BMW Sauber. BBC Sport (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4118472.stm)
  • The entire network of the Swiss Federal Railways shuts down due to a power failure in its overhead wire system. The power failure is also affecting international transit through Switzerland as such intercity trains use the same system. Initial reports indicate that the power failure started with a voltage drop in Ticino (in the St. Gotthard region) that then spread to the entire system. The initial failure happened at about 1700 local time, with some power supplies restored about 2015, but the last trains did not reach their destinations until 0300. (SwissInfo) (http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=106&sid=5891657&cKey=1119459101000) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4121072.stm)
  • In Chad, referendum votes to allow president Idriss Deby to stand elections for the third term in office (Reuters SA) (http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:42b90698:8c9d8ac3b9c887ad?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8858370)
  • According to former U.S. ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg and former journalist Don Oberdorfer, George W. Bush in 2002 turned down an offer from North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to discuss the issue of nuclear weapons. (Reuters) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22655064.htm)
  • An Italian military tribunal in La Spezia has sentenced 10 German former Nazi officers in absentia to life imprisonment for their role in a World War II massacre of 560 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema. (BBC News) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4121510.stm)
  • In Colombia, congress approves a draft bill that offers sentences of only eight years to those members of paramilitary militias who give up their weapons. it demands that they confess, return the stolen property and disarms. Critics of president Alvaro Uribe say that the law in too lenient (IHT) (http://iht.com/articles/2005/06/22/news/colombia.php) (Colombia Journal) (http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia211.htm) (Reuters AlertNet) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21644945.htm)
  • International Whaling Commission meeting in Ulsan, South Korea, does not support Japan's suggestion to resume coastal whaling or increase its own scientific one. Commission also voted down a request thta Japan could catch 150 minke whales a year (Japan Today) (http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=341246) (Channel News Asia) (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/154232/1/.html) (Reuters AlertNet) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SEO348341.htm)
  • In South Africa, president Thabo Mbeki names energy and minerals minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka as his deputy president. She is also the first woman in the position (SABC) (http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/education/0,2172,107034,00.html) (Reuters SA) (http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:42ba539c:d267697b3043d549?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8868200) (News24) (http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_1725296,00.html) (BBC profile) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4120168.stm)
  • Peruvian government condemns supreme court decision to drop the case of former president Alberto Fujimori for forging signatures for 2000 elections (Reuters AlertNet) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22429237.htm)
  • Peruvian government states that they will allow limited growing of coca plant for traditional uses (MercoPress (http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5884) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4118734.stm)
  • In Brazil, heated arguments in the congress result in fighting and the session is suspended. Fighting begun when former chief of staff José Dirceu, who had rejoined the congress, tried to defend the government against the bribery allegations (Bloomberg) (http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aCaNsPwarvRQ&refer=news_index)
  • In Ethiopia. main opposition group Coalition for Unity and Democracy states that government investigaros have dropped all their complaints about possible election fraud. Government still has not released any results (AllAfrica) (http://allafrica.com/stories/200506220233.html) (Reuters AlertNet) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/1686f65f99f7364cad25849d7ed3d820.htm) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4119320.stm)
  • United Nations Security Council votees to send 750 more peacekeepers to Haiti for elections and extend the UN mandate to February 15 2006 (UN News Centre) (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=14697&Cr=haiti&Cr1=) (ReliefWeb) (http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6DLM46?OpenDocument)
  • In Poland, oppositon demands resignation of prime minister Marek Belka because of allegations because a declassified files show that he had ties to communist-era security services. Belka refuses to do so, stating that he signed a contract to be allowed to go to study trip to USA (Radio Polonia) (http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=24246&j=2) (Warsaw business Journal) (http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=27328) (Reuters) (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-22T162802Z_01_KNE259253_RTRUKOC_0_POLAND-PREMIER.xml)
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June 21 2005 (Tuesday)

  • The Cosmos 1 solar sail test flight is launched by a Russian Volna rocket (a converted SS-N-18 ICBM) from a Russian Delta III submarine submerged in the Barents Sea. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4110912.stm) However, the spacecraft, dubbed Solar Sail, is feared lost after the rocket failed 83 seconds after launch. SBS (http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=114306&region=3)
  • The LA Times suspends an experiment called "wikitorial" after three days because of vandalism. (MSNBC) (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8300420) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4114312.stm)
  • In Israel 8 people are killed and about 200 injured when a train is reported to have struck a truck on a level crossing near Kiryat Gat. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4116482.stm)
  • At Stonehenge in England, some 19,000 people gather to celebrate the rising sun on the summer solstice.
  • Clearup operation continues in North Yorkshire after the serious flash flooding on Sunday Night / Monday Morning. The towns of Thirsk, Helmsley and Hawnby were seriously affected, as were several villages when the rivers Swale and Rye burst their banks.
  • In Manchester, UK, 30 police raid a house at 5 a.m. and arrest a 40-year old man on suspicion of involvement in suicide bombings in Iraq. Another man resident in the same house is believed to have gone to Iraq in February to carry out a bombing. Last week, police in Spain and Germany also made arrests in connection with bombings in Iraq, but it is not known if the cases are related. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4113846.stm)
  • New Zealand's telecoms network crashes for five hours when a rat chews one of the North Island's main fibre-optic cables at the same time as a workman damaged another cable in another part of the island. Mobile phone and internet communications were badly affected, and the Stock Exchange had to close for several hours. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4114556.stm)
  • In Mexico, Zapatista rebels are in alert, pulling out of villages and closing their radio stations. The reasons are unknown, although the move may be due to an army drug raid in Los Altos. Subcomandante Marcos announces that foreign aid workers can stay only at their own risk. Later news indicate that Zapatistas are gathering for a conference. Marcos announces that the movement is entering a "next step in the struggle" and that the organization has reorganized itself to survive the loss of current leadership. (Indymedia Chiapas, English translation (http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/display.php3?article_id=113833) (Indymedia Chiapas, English translation) (http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/display.php3?article_id=113840) (Reuters) (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-22T012543Z_01_N21646401_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-MEXICO-REBELS-DC.XML) (Reuters AlertNet) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21639624.htm) (Reuters AlertNet) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20557404.htm)
  • In Brazil, president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva demands that the opposition present proof of its allegations that government had given bribes for political support (Reuters) (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-21T222611Z_01_N21640081_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-BRAZIL-POLITICS-DC.XML) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4117712.stm)
  • In Lebanon, a remote control bomb that had been placed under the passenger seat of his car kills anti-Syrian politician George Hawi, former secretary general of Lebanese Communist Party (Daily Star) (http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=16140) (Ya Libnan) (http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2005/06/lebanese_leader_2.php) (Al-JAzeera) (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4237B3EA-3060-4C02-B9C4-154A1CE002A2.htm) (IHT) (http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/22/news/lebanon.php) (Reuters) (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-21T174538Z_01_N21476335_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-LEBANON-DC.XML)
  • In the Philippines, congress begins an inquiry into allegations that president Gloria Arroyo had rigged votes in last year's presidential elections. President states that shell comemnt the process later. Her supporters and the opposition demonstrate in Manila (INQ7, Philippines) (http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=41052) (Manila Times) (http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/jun/21/yehey/top_stories/20050621top1.html) (Sun Star) (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2005/06/22/news/bunye.won.t.name.voices.html) (Channel News Asia) (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/analysis/view/153847/1/.html)
  • In Zambia, former health ministry official Kashiba Bulaya has been charged again with accepting a bribe from a Bulgarian firm that manufactures anti-retrovirus drugs against AIDS. Government's decision to halt the case a month ago aroused protests. (Reuters SA) (http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:42b7bc5b:2d70f927ab316e?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8846873) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4116694.stm)
  • A U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission designed to ensure an independent board of directors for mutual funds, holding that the SEC didn't comply with the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act. (Chamber of Commerce) (http://www.uschamber.com/press/releases/2005/june/05-106.htm)
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June 20 2005 (Monday)

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June 19 2005 (Sunday)

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June 18 2005 (Saturday)

  • No events submitted for this date.
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June 17 2005 (Friday)

  • The murder weapon used to kill Leon Trotsky is purported to have surfaced in Mexico. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4103306.stm)
  • A United Nations investigation has concluded that Rafik Hariri, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, was killed by a truck bomb. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4103374.stm)
  • Controversial Pakistani scientist AQ Khan is said to be stable after suffering a heart attack. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4102672.stm)
  • In Kyrgyzstan, hundreds of protesters seize a government building in the capital of Bishkek. They support presidential candidate Urmat Baryaktadasov, who was denied registration because the government says he is also a citizen of Kazakhstan. Police later seized the building. (RIA Novosti) (http://en.rian.ru/world/20050617/40537268.html) (CNN) (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/kyrgystan.protest.ap/) (Guardian Unlimited) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5080511,00.html) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4102294.stm)
  • The 2005 Presidential election begins in Iran. Most pre-voting polls favor Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. (Middle East Online) (http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13789) (Al-Jazeera) (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/749B7F3A-0F25-46BC-94B5-262B742811CE.htm) (Reuters) (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-06-17T072143Z_01_N17199788_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAN-ELECTION-DC.XML) (IHT) (http://iht.com/articles/2005/06/17/africa/web.0617iran.php)
  • Cambodian police have arrested a security guard who allegedly planned the hostage drama in Siem Reap. (Channel News Asia) (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/153220/1/.html) (Reuters) (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-17T054732Z_01_N17392039_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-CAMBODIA-HOSTAGES-DC.XML)
  • The Taiwanese Supreme Court rejects the opposition's appeal to nullify the results of the 2004 presidential election. Chen Shui-bian won the election by a narrow majority. (Channel News Asia) (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/153230/1/.html) (Bloomberg) (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aNd0uRCXXMO8&refer=asia)
  • In the United Kingdom, the Ugandan-born bishop of Birmingham Rt Rev Dr John Sentamu is named the new Archbishop of York. He is the first ever black person to be appointed an Archbishop of the Church of England. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4102582.stm) (Reuters) (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-06-17T085010Z_01_SCH731728_RTRUKOC_0_RELIGION-BRITAIN.xml)
  • The Vatican announces that it has taken the unusual step of suspending the announced beatification of the Reverend Leon Dehon in order to investigate charges of anti-Semitism. AP (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050617/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_french_priest)
  • Dennis Kozlowski, the former chief executive of Tyco International, and Mark Swartz, its erstwhile chief financial officer, were found guilty by a New York state court jury on all but one of 31 counts of grand larceny, conspiracy, falsifying business records and securities fraud. (Houston Chronicle) (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3230906)
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June 16 2005 (Thursday)

  • A report by the Metropolitan Police in the UK states that children are being trafficked into the UK from Africa to be used as 'human sacrifices'. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4098172.stm), (Guardian) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1508539,00.html)
  • 26 of 60 tank cars carrying fuel oil derail near Rzhev, Russia (about 200 km / 125 miles northwest of Moscow), sending a very large amount of oil into the ground contaminating Moscow's water supply and the Volga River after flowing down the Vazuza River from the accident site. It is not yet known if this incident is related to the bomb that was exploded on June 12 that derailed a passenger train. (RIA Novosti) (http://newsfromrussia.com/accidents/2005/06/16/60346.html) (RIA Novosti) (http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050616/40534658.html) (Pravda) (http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050616/40535705.html)
  • Conflict in Iraq: Five U.S. Marines die from a roadside bomb in Ramadi, Western Iraq. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4098178.stm)
  • A Jewish cemetery in West Ham has been attacked. This was the 117th time a Jewish cemetery in Great Britain has been attacked in 15 years. (The Independent) (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=647203)
  • In Cambodia, 6 unidentified gunmen take over a school in the town of Siem Reap near Angkor Wat and hold a number hostage for six hours. Reports of the number of hostages range from 24 to 70. Many of them were children from foreign families that work in the area. Gunmen demand money, weapons and a car. A Canadian child is executed by the gunmen before the rest are freed. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4098412.stm) (CBC) (http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/16/cambodia-school050616.html) (Channel News Asia) (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/153063/1/.html) (Channel News Asia) (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southeastasia/view/153023/1/.html) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8807502),(Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8808440)
  • In Japan, former tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi confesses to financial fraud and insider trading. (Japan Today) (http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=340551) (Channel News Asia) (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/153049/1/.html)
  • Chilean authorities have found a weapons arsenal in Villa Baviera, former Colonia Dignidad, during the investigation of the colony's founder Paul Schaefer (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4097884.stm)
  • Uzbekistan deports four members of human rights group International Helsinki Federation after they had investigated unrest in Andijan. (Mosnews) (http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/06/16/hrgroupuzbekistan.shtml) (Reuters AlertNet) (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/5822632af4c4c448ca8c838ca533a34d.htm)
  • In Brazil, minister José Dirceu resigns due to allegations that he knew about bribery but insists that he is innocent (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4102142.stm) (Forbes) (http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/06/17/afx2098167.html)
  • Eastern Orthodox Church demotes former patriarch Irenaios I to a rank of a monk (Jerusalem Post/AP) (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1118888337168) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4101886.stm)
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June 15 2005 (Wednesday)

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June 14 2005 (Tuesday)

  • A major earthquake strikes about 80 miles (130 kilometers) off the coast of northern California on Tuesday night, briefly prompting a tsunami warning along the Pacific coast but with no immediate reports of damages or injuries. (AP) (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-14-california-quake_x.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno)
  • Asafa Powell breaks the world record in the 100 meters (328 feet, 1 inch) Tuesday with a 9.77 clocking at the Athens, Greece Olympic Stadium, making him the world's fastest human at 36.85 km/hr (22.9 mi/hr). (AP) (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/summer/track/2005-06-14-world-record-100_x.htm)
  • The Supreme Court of Argentina declares unconstitutional two laws that granted immunity to Dirty War human rights abusers. (Bloomberg) (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=anc3YCuQpXv0&refer=latin_america)
  • Jacob Zuma, Executive Deputy President of South Africa, is fired for being implicated in a high-profile corruption trial. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8786067)
  • Conflict in Iraq: 22 people have died following a suicide bombing in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4090626.stm)
  • Football (soccer) sex crime allegations:
  • Sudan rejects the UN's decision to use the International Criminal Court to try criminals in relation to the atrocities of the Darfur conflict, and instead opens its own recently-created special court. (Al-Jazeera) (http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9073) (ReliefWeb) (http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6DBEPW?OpenDocument), (ISN) (http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=11465)
  • A TNS/MRBI Irish Times opinion poll predicts that Ireland, previously seen as certain to vote yes, is likely to vote no in its planned referendum on the European Constitution. Only 30% of voters indicated that they would vote for the constitution, the lowest level in any country in the European Union to date. (The Scotsman) (http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=654732005)
  • A four-year-old boy is reported dead shortly after losing consciousness while riding Mission: SPACE at Walt Disney World's Epcot. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/14/disney.death.ap/index.html)
  • According to Washington Post, US and Russian defense officials blocked NATO demand of investigation into crackdown of unrest in Uzbekistan (Washington Post) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/13/AR2005061301550.html?nav=rss_politics) (ReliefWeb) (http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6DD2ZP?OpenDocument) (IHT) (http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/14/news/uzbek.php)
  • In Indonesia, lawyers of Schapelle Corby file appeal in Bali court (Australia) (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15618241%255E2702,00.html) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8784870)
  • In Mexico, Raúl Salinas de Gortarí is released from prison on bail. He has been in prison for ten years (El Universal) (http://www2.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impreso/noticia.html?id_nota=10825&tabla=miami) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8786851)
  • JP Morgan Chase & Co. announced a settlement of a lawsuit brought against it by Enron investors who claim that it helped the management of that company defraud them. JP Morgan will pay claimants US$2.2 billion.
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June 13 2005 (Monday)