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April 24, 2005
About 1 million people march silently through Mexico City in
support of the capital's embattled mayor, Andrés Manuel
López Obrador. (Bloomberg) (CNN) (El Universal) (BBC)
(The Guardian)
Togolese presidential election, 2005: Three
killed, amid claims of fraud in tense election in Togo to choose
the successor to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma,
hardline ruler for 38 years, from amongst Faure Gnassingbé,
the 39-year-old son of the late leader, and several challengers
led by Emmanuel Bob-Akitani. (Khaleej Times), (CNN)
Leaders of Asian and African countries
celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bandung Conference. (People's
Daily Online), (KeralaNext), (XinHua)
Tens of thousands of Armenians mark the
90th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire. (CBC), (Reuters)
Soyuz TMA-5: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft
lands in Kazakhstan, bringing 3 astronauts, Russian Salizhan
Sharipov, Chinese American Leroy Chiao and Italian Roberto Vittori,
safely back to Earth from the International Space Station. (Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI is formally installed
as Pope of the Catholic Church in an inaugural mass. (BBC) (CNN)
Ousted president of Ecuador, Lucio Gutiérrez,
moves to exile in Brazil. (Reuters) (ITV)
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez
ends military cooperation with USA, claiming that US army training
officers in the country have been agitating unrest against him.
(Reuters)
In Kuwait, around 7000 Bengali workers
storm the embassy of Bangladesh in Kuwait City to protest against
unpaid wages. (Bangladesh Journal) (Al-Jazeera (Reuters)
Forty Pakistani Christians are arrested
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for practicing their religion in violation
of a Saudi law forbidding the practice of any religion but Islam.
Christian Today.
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