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4 November 2005 (Friday)
- Kenneth Tomlinson, the [former] chairman of the U.S. CPB, resigns after the publication of an internal investigation into Tomlinson's actions toward making PBS programming more "conservative."
- The Old Bailey in the U.K. has sentenced five white supremacists to jail for 15 years for creating and distributing race hate material. (BBC)
- Three men arrested last month in the U.K. have been charged under the Terrorism Act. (BBC)
- The 2005 Paris suburb riots continue for an eighth consecutive night. Hundreds of arson attacks have taken place in the last few nights. Shots fired at police and firefighters. Rioting continues to spread. France described as facing a crisis. (BBC)
- Israelis have begun to mark the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. (BBC), (Reuters), (IOL)
- Massive demonstrations against U.S. President George W. Bush continue to grow at the Fourth Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina (Reuters)
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3 November 2005 (Thursday)
- The 2005 Paris suburb riots continue for a seventh consecutive night.
- The United States Department of Health and Human Services are predicting that 2 million people in the United States could die from an expected influenza pandemic. (Reuters) (Health and Human Services)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
- A joint Israeli-Palestinian doctors group has filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel requesting an end to the Israel Defense Forces use of sonic booms to terrify the Palestinian populace. The Doctors complain that the "sound bombs" cause widespread fear, induce miscarriages and traumatise children. The United Nations claim that the tactic causes panic attacks in children and has smashed thousands of windows. (The Guardian), (BBC)
- A 12 year old Palestinian boy is in a criticial condition after being shot by an Israeli soldier. The soldiers had been in a firefight with Islamic Jihad members, and the boy was carrying a toy gun. Haaretz (BBC).
- Israeli troops raid the West Bank area of Jenin. (BBC)
- Conflict in Iraq: Seven U.K. troops accused of murdering an Iraqi civilian have have their cases dropped after a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence against the soldiers and that the Iraqi witnesses lied. (BBC)
- Five U.S. Marines have been arrested after they were accused of raping a local Filipino woman. The USS Essex was prevented from leaving the Philippines until the men were apprehended. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- Two more people have died as protests against the government of Ethiopia continue in Addis Ababa. (BBC)
- Sagittarius A, a complex radio source at the center of the Milky Way, is proved to be a supermassive black hole. (CNN)
- A bomb explodes in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon. No casualties have been reported. (Radio Australia)
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2 November 2005 (Wednesday)
- Guinea-Bissau's President Nino Vieira appoints Aristides Gomes, a former African Development Bank official, as new prime minister, replacing the dismissed Carlos Gomes Júnior. (xinhua)(Reuters)
- Donald E. Powell, former chief executive of the First National Bank of Amarillo, Texas and current Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairman is named to coordinate rebuilding of the Gulf Coast by President George W. Bush. (White House) (WashingtonTimes)
- The Washington Post reports that the Central Intelligence Agency has been operating, perhaps illegally, a covert network of "black site" prisons for terrorist suspects in eight foreign countries, including Afghanistan, Thailand, and several Eastern European democracies for the last four years, with little or no oversight from the United States Congress. (The Washington Post)
- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated Sadeq Mahsouli as Supervisor of Ministry of Petroleum of OPEC's number two producer, risking domestic political commotion and a parliamentary veto after already making a disturbance abroad with a call for Israel's destruction. (Reuters)
- The Delhi police have released three sketches of one of the suspected bombers involved in 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings. (NDTV)
- A car bomb kills six in Srinagar, India (Rediff)
- The British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Blunkett, resigns a second time, following allegations of ministerial misconduct over his directorship and purchase of shares in a bioscience company. John Hutton is named as his replacement. (Investment & Pensions Europe).
- The 2005 Paris riots continue for the sixth consecutive night. Rioting spread through impoverished suburbs, which was sparked by the death of two youths who were allegedly fleeing police and were accidently electrocuted while hiding in an electrical substation. The riots have caused increased strains between the authorities and the inhabitants of the poor suburbs. (AP)
- 80 of the world's top radio astronomers meet in Pune, India to decide how and where to set up the world's biggest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array. (NDTV)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Israel Defense Forces soldier was seriously wounded and later died of his wounds in an overnight arrest raids near the West Bank town of Jenin. (Ynetnews)
- At least 23 people were killed and 150 wounded in clashes between opposition supporters and police in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. (Reuters)
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1 November 2005 (Tuesday)
- Best Mate, 10, award-winning Irish racehorse, suffers a heart attack and dies while racing in front of a televion audience of millions.
- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats force a closed session of the Senate over the recent Lewis Libby indictment. (CNN)
- The discovery of two additional moons of Pluto is announced. (CNN)
- The United Nations Security Council passed a UNSC resolution (S/RES/1636 (2005)) which requests urgently and forcefully Syria's full cooperation with the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (CCTV)
- Zanzibar's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and President Amani Abeid Karume are declared re-elected in a disputed election. Police clashed with opposition supporters, leaving 9 dead. (Reuters) (Reuters) (Guardian)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 2 Palestinian militants, one from Hamas, the other the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, have died following an Israeli air-strike in the Gaza Strip. (BBC)
- North Korea and South Korea will field a united Olympics team at the next Olympic Games. (BBC)
- Justice John Gomery releases the first part of the Gomery Commission report on corruption in the Liberal Party of Canada and the sponsorship scandal. Gomery exonerates current prime minister Paul Martin but criticizes former prime minister Jean Chretien and his Quebec lieutenant Alfonso Gagliano. (CBC)
- 2005 Paris riots continue for the fifth consecutive night, sparked by the death of two Muslim youths from electric shock. The controversy caused by police firing tear gas into a mosque on Sunday night led to families of the dead youths pulling out of a meeting with the French Interior Minister. (news24)
- Makybe Diva wins the Melbourne Cup thoroughbred horse race for the third consecutive year, becoming the first horse ever to do so. Shortly thereafter, owner Tony Stantic announces her retirement from racing. (Herald Sun)
- U.S. prosecutors admitted that Omar al-Faruq was one of four detainees to escape from the Bagram base, Afghanistan, in July, all of whom are still on the run. (BBC)
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