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Ongoing events

Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal
Atlantic hurricane season
Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
Bali bombings investigation
California wildfires
UK Conservative Party leadership election
DeLay political financing scandal
Fuel prices / Peak oil
Iran's nuclear program
Kashmir earthquake
London bombings investigation
Malawi food crisis
Niger food crisis
North Korea's nuclear program
Pacific hurricane season
Pacific typhoon season
Plame CIA leak investigation
Zimbabwe home demolitions

Upcoming events

Possible end of the Plame CIA leak investigation

Deaths in November

None reported so far

Upcoming elections

November 6: Azerbaijan, Parliament
November 8: Northern Mariana Islands elections
November 13: Burkina Faso, President
November 15: Greenland, Parliament
November 17: Sri Lanka, President
November 20: Haiti elections
November 21: Kenya constitutional referendum
November 23: Jersey elections
November 27: Armenia constitutional referendum
November 27: Honduras elections
November 27: D.R.C. constitutional referendum
November 27: Gabon, President
November 2005: Egypt, Parliament
November 2005: Falkland Islands, Parliament
December 18: Tanzanian elections

Recent election results

September 29: Somaliland parliamentary
October 11: Liberian presidential & parliamentary
October 15: Iraqi constitution vote
October 23: Polish presidential runoff
October 23: Argentine parliamentary

Ongoing armed conflicts

Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
Second Chechen War
Second Congo War
Conflict in Iraq
Darfur conflict in Sudan
Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
Conflict in northern Uganda
South Thailand insurgency

Upcoming holidays
and observances

November

2: All Souls' Day (Catholicism)
2: Day of the Dead (Mexico)
3: Eid ul-Fitr
(Islam, begins at sunset, depends on new moon)
3: Culture Day (Japan)
4: Day popular unity (Russia)
5: Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom)
6: Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
7: Day of Accord and Reconciliation
11: Pepero Day (South Korea)
11: St. Martin's Day (Netherlands)
15: Shichigosan (Japan)
16: Loy Krathong (Thailand)
20: Zumbi Day (Brazil)
24: Thanksgiving (United States)

Ongoing trials

Australia: Bradley John Murdoch
Chile: Augusto Pinochet
Indonesia: Bali Nine
Indonesia: Michelle Leslie
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
Saddam Hussein, among others
Neth.: ICTY
Slobodan Milošević, among others
Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev
U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui
U.S.: Brian Nichols
U.S.: Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

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