Portal:Current events/June 2006/Sidebar

Events

Recent Formation of a new Iraqi government Montenegrin independence vote Chilean student protests Ongoing Atlantic hurricane season Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak Black sites scandal Cole Inquiry East Timor military and political crisis World Cup 2006, Germany Horn of Africa food crisis Immigration law debates in the US May 2006 Java earthquake Iran's nuclear program North Indian cyclone season NSA warrantless surveillance controversy Pacific hurricane season Pacific typhoon season Southern Hemisphere cyclone season Wimbledon Tennis Championships

Deaths
1: Rocío Jurado 2: Vince Welnick 6: Billy Preston 7: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 7: John Tenta 12: György Ligeti 12: Kenneth Thomson 13: Charles Haughey 19: Arthur Yap 21: Khamis al-Obeidi 22: Moose 23: Harriet the tortoise 23: Aaron Spelling

Armed conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Arab-Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada) Operation Summer Rains East African War Chadian-Sudanese conflict Darfur conflict in Sudan Iraq War Ituri conflict in the DR Congo Ivorian Civil War Nepal Civil War Second Chechen War South Thailand insurgency

Elections
Results 2 - 3: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies 4: Peru, Executive runoff 4: San Marino, Parliament 17: Slovakia, Parliament

Trials

Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, on charges related to the 2005 elections. Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling (sentencing) U.S.: Tom DeLay