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April 26, 2005
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Israeli soldier killed in the
West Bank on Monday night was shot by his comrades. It was believed
he was killed by an Unarmed Taxi Driver, Iyad Dueik, who was
shot seven times and whose car ran over the man, but news that
he was shot questions this assessment. (BBC)
Alassane Ouattara is allowed to run for
Presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire. (AP via Yahoo!
France)
2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland: a 70-member
delegation led by Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan left Taipei for
Nanjing via Hong Kong, launching Lien Chan's 8-day Taiwan Strait
peace tour, also the first official visit by the highest leader
of Kuomintang to Mainland China in 60 years. (BBC)
Faure Gnassingbé wins the Togolese
presidential election with more than 60% of the votes. Results
cause riots in Lomé when the opposition doesn't acknowledge
the election, denouncing massive fraud. (AFP via Yahoo!) (AFP
via Yahoo! France)
The Civil Unions and Relationships Acts
take effect in New Zealand. These laws allow same-sex and de
facto couples to form legal unions that are similar to marriage.
(New Zealand Herald)
The death toll in the Amagasaki rail crash
reaches 73. Police searches the offices of West Japan Railway
Co looking for clues for the cause of the crash. (Japan Today)
(Reuters) (Bloomberg) (Reuters AlertNet)
Political unrest increases in Belize when
opposition calls for the government to step down, telephone workers
are on strike and teachers threatening to follow. (Reuters AlertNet)
The U.S. chief weapons inspector, Charles
Duelfer states that search of weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq has "gone as far as feasible". (Washington Post)
(Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
Military action in Lebanon: After three
decades, all Syrian troops leave Lebanon, fulfilling UN Security
Council Resolution 1559. (Daily Star, Lebanon), (Reuters)
British Labour Party member Brian Sedgemore
moves to the Liberal Democrats. (Independent) (Times) (BBC)
Following Canadian Prime Minister Paul
Martin's plea on national television that a re-election ought
to be delayed until the Gomery Commission has completed its report
on the sponsorship scandal, a deal between the governing Liberal
Party and the New Democratic Party may avoid the election in
the near future as predicted earlier last week. (CBC)
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