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[edit] Recent

• Attempted coup in Madagascar
• Mark Foley scandal

[edit] Ongoing

• Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
• Cole Inquiry
• Fijian coup d'état
• Georgia-Russia spying dispute
• Ipswich murders investigation
• Iran's nuclear program
• Litvinenko murder investigation
• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
• Philippine Constituent Assembly
• Restart of six-party talks
• Riots in Tonga
• Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-116
• Taiwan political crisis
• Unrest in Oaxaca

[edit] Natural disasters

• North Indian cyclone season
• Pacific typhoon season
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season
• December 2006 Pacific Northwest storms

[edit] December

• 16: Scott Peoples
• 14: Ahmet Ertegun
• 13: Lamar Hunt
• 12: Paul Arizin
• 12: Peter Boyle
• 12: Shane Halligan
• 11: Elizabeth Bolden
• 10: Augusto Pinochet
• 7: Jeane Kirkpatrick
• 7: Jay McShann
• 7: Kim Hyung-chil
• 3: Logan Whitehurst
• 1: Claude Jade

• Acholiland insurgency
• Arab-Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada)
• Central African War
• Colombian armed conflict
• Iraq War
• Ituri Conflict in the DR Congo
• Somali Civil War
• Ivorian Civil War
• Kurdish conflict in Turkey
• Second Chechen War
• South Thailand insurgency
• Sri Lankan civil war
• Taliban insurgency

[edit] Recent

December

• 2: Bahrain, Parliament (2^nd round)
• 2: Liberal Party of Canada, Leadership convention
• 2: Alberta Progr. Cons. leadership (1^st round)
• 3: Venezuela, President
• 3: Madagascar, President
• 3: Mauritania, Parliament (2^nd round)
• 10: Nagorno-Karabakh (unrecognised), const. ref.
• 10: Transnistria (unrecognised), President
• 11: Saint Lucia, Parliament

[edit] Upcoming

December

• 15: Iran, councils and Assembly of Experts
• 16/18/20: United Arab Emirates, Parliament
• 17: Gabon, Parliament

[edit] Upcoming

• Israel: Mordechai Vanunu
• Libya: Benghazi Six
• U.S.: Conrad Black
• U.S.: José Padilla
• U.S.: Lewis "Scooter" Libby
• U.S.: Steven L. Jordan

[edit] Ongoing

• Peru: Alberto Fujimori (extradition)
• 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: Hofstad Network
• Netherlands: ICC
  • Thomas Lubanga
• Netherlands: ICTY
• Sierra Leone: SCfSL
  • Charles Taylor
• UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh
• U.S.: Brian Nichols
• U.S.: Tom DeLay

[edit] December

• 15: Hanukkah begins (Judaism, sunset)
• 23: Hanukkah ends (Judaism, sunset)
• 25: Christmas (Western Christianity)
• 26: Boxing Day (Western Christianity)
• 26: Kwanzaa begins (United States)
• 28: Hajj begins (Islam, est.)
• 30: Eid ul-Adha begins (Islam, est., sunset)
• 31: New Year's Eve

[edit] January

• 1: New Year's Day
• 1: Kwanzaa ends (United States)
• 2: Eid ul-Adha ends (Islam, est., sunset)

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