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[edit] Recent

• 2007 National People's Congress
• Ipswich murders investigation
• Political crisis in Taiwan

[edit] Ongoing

• Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy
• Global spread of H5N1
• Iran's nuclear program
• Iranian seizure of British servicemen
• Lebanese anti-government protest
• Litvinenko murder investigation
• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
• Six-party talks

[edit] Natural disasters

• North Indian cyclone season
• Pacific typhoon season
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

[edit] March

• 25: Andranik Margaryan
• 23: Robert E. Petersen
• 23: Ed Bailey
• 23: Mao Anqing
• 21: Catherine Seipp
• 20: Taha Yassin Ramadan
• 19: Calvert DeForest
• 19: Luther Ingram
• 18: Bob Woolmer

• Acholiland insurgency
• Arab-Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada)
• Brazilian gang violence
• Central African War
• Colombian armed conflict
• Iraq War
• Communist and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines
• Ituri Conflict in the DR Congo
• Nigerian Oil Crisis
• Hamas-Fatah clashes
• War in Somalia
• Ivorian Civil War
• Kurdish conflict in Turkey
• Sa'dah conflict
• Second Chechen War
• South Thailand insurgency
• Sri Lankan Civil War
• Taliban insurgency
• Darfur conflict

[edit] Recent

March

• 10: Malta local council elections
• 11: Mauritania, President
• 18: Finland, Parliament
• 24: New South Wales, General Election
• 25: Hong Kong, Chief Executive
• 26: Quebec, National Assembly
• 26: Egypt, constitutional referendum

• 31: Benin, National Assembly

April

• 1: Qatar, CMC

[edit] Upcoming

April

• 4: Madagascar, constitutional referendum
• 9: East Timor, President
• 12: Malacca, Malaysia, Machap by-election
• 15: Ecuador, referendum
• 21: Nigeria, President and parliament
• 22: France, President
• 22: Wallis and Futuna, Parliament
• 22: Syria, Parliament
• 29: Mali, President

[edit] Upcoming

• U.S.: José Padilla
• U.S.: Steven L. Jordan
• U.S.: James Charles Kopp
• U.S.: Ehren Watada

[edit] Ongoing

• Canada: Robert Pickton
• China: Zhou Zhengyi
• Peru: Alberto Fujimori (extradition)
• Ethiopia: CUD relating to 2005 elections.
• Iran: Nazanin Fatehi
• Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
• 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.: Conrad Black
• U.S.: Tom DeLay

[edit] April

• 2: Passover begins (Judaism; sunset)
• 5: Qingming Festival (China, Macau)
• 5: Mawlid (Shi'a Islam)
• 6: Good Friday (Christianity)
• 8: Easter (Christianity)
• 10: Passover ends (Judaism; sunset)
• 15: Yom HaShoah (Israel)
• 20: Ridván begins (the Bahá'í Faith; sunset)
• 22: Earth Day

[edit] May

• 1: May Day
• 2: Ridván ends (the Bahá'í Faith; sunset)

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