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Events
	Recent Chilean student protests; Earthquake in Java; World Cup 2006, Germany; Ongoing Tour de France; Operación Puerto doping case; Atlantic hurricane season; Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak; 2006 New Jersey State Government Shutdown; Black sites scandal; Cole Inquiry; East Timor military and political crisis; Horn of Africa food crisis; Immigration law debates in the US; 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;

Recent Deaths
	July
	5: Kenneth Lay; 3: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; 2: Herty Lewites; 2: Jan Murray; 1: Ryutaro Hashimoto; 1: Fred Trueman;

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Ongoing armed conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Arab-Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada) Operation Summer Rains 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
Recent 5: Macedonia, Parliament Upcoming 28-30: Seychelles 30: DR Congo, General (President and Legislature) 30: São Tomé and Príncipe, President

Trials
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 Ongoing 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.: Jeffrey Skilling (sentencing) U.S.: Tom DeLay

Upcoming holidays and observances
July 7: Ivan Kupala (Russia) 7: Tanabata (Japan) 9: National Day of Commemoration (Ireland) 11: World Population Day 11: Flemish Day (Flemish Region, Belgium) 11: Naadam begins (Mongolia) 12: The Twelfth (Northern Ireland) 13: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism) 13: Bon Festival begins (Japan) 14: Bastille Day (France) 15: Men's Day (Brazil) 23: Revolution Day (Egypt)

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