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5 December 2005 (Monday)
- In the United Kingdom the civil registration of same sex marriages begins. (BBC)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: At least five people are killed in a Suicide Bomb attack in Netanya, north-western Israel. The attack follows confirmation from Shaul Mofaz that Israel will resume its policy of "targeted killings". (Ynetnews), (BBC)
4 December 2005 (Sunday)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israel launches a series of air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip. (BBC)
- Exit polls indicate that Kazakhstan's incumbent leader Nursultan Nazarbayev wins the presidential election by a landslide. (Forbes), (Financial Times), (Guardian), (Xinhua)
- Conflict in Iraq -
- Former chief of the RUC police force will head a British investigation into possible infiltration of Iraq's police force by insurgents. (BBC)
- Former prime minister Iyad Allawi says he survived an assassination attempt at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf. Police say his group fled from the Shi'ite Muslim shrine under a hail of debris by a mob. (ReutersUK) (NYTimes)
- Former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser calls for a worldwide ban on capital punishment. (The Australian)
- The people of Venezuela vote in Parliamentary Elections. (BBC)
- In the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, Philippines leads the medal tally with 106 gold medals over Thailand with only 62 gold medals. (Xinhua)
- A London tabloid claims that the CIA's use of Scotland's airports was part of an alleged CIA operation to catch and transfer terrorist suspects to secret prison camps in Europe. The three airports allegedly involved were Glasgow International, Glasgow Prestwick, and Edinburgh Airport (BBC News) (Hindustan Times) (Photo of aircraft (Airliners.net))
3 December 2005 (Saturday)
- Talks on the new EU budget may not be completed under the United Kingdom's presidency, the UK's minister for Europe warns (BBC)
- ROC local elections, 2005: Republic of China (Taiwan) opposition party Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) makes major gains in municipal elections, taking 14 of 23 mayor or county magistrate seats. Ruling Democratic Progressive Party takes six seats. People First Party and New Party each takes one seat, and an independent wins one seat. DPP chairman Su Tseng-chang resigns to take responsibility for his party's defeat. (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
- Pakistan's information minister claims Pakistani forces have killed al-Qaeda operational commander Abu Hamza Rabia in fighting along the Afghanistan border. (BBC)
- Roadside Bomb about 60 miles from Baghdad, attack kills 19 Iraqi Troops. (Yahoo)
- Some 40,000 protest inaction on global warming in Montreal. The demonstration, held as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, is one of the largest environmental protests ever and is accompanied by marches worldwide, including one in hurricane-devastated New Orleans. (CTV) (Independent)
2 December 2005 (Friday)
- About 4,000 military history enthusiasts from 23 countries gathered at Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic to re-enact the Battle of Austerlitz on the 200th anniversary of the epic battle between the First French Empire, the Austrian Empire and Imperial Russia. (BBC), (BBC), (AP via CBS), (AP via ABC), (Austerlitz2005.com)
- Proposed internet ___domain .xxx for pornography has been dropped shortly before the ___domain was set to receive approval. (techtree)
- Conflict in Iraq: 10 US Marines are killed following an insurgent roadside bomb attack in Falluja. (BBC)
- Scientists in Gabon and Congo discover that three species of fruit bat serve as animal reservoirs for the ebola virus. The virus probably first spread from animal to human in 1976 by local hunters eating the bats. (Nature) (LA Times)
- Hurricane Epsilon strengthens from a tropical storm to become the record breaking fourteenth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. (CNN) (Reuters via Yahoo)
- Kenneth Boyd becomes the 1000th person to be executed in the USA since the re-introduction of capital punishment in 1976. (BBC)
- Australian Van Tuong Nguyen is executed by hanging in Singapore for drug trafficking. (AP via Yahoo)
- An independent commission to investigate the Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal is established by Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. (The Sun Malaysia)
1 December 2005 (Thursday)
- South Africa's Constitutional Court declares that current marriage laws restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples are unconstitutional and must be changed within a year. Once the change is made, South Africa will be the fifth country in the world where same-sex marriages are recognized, after Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The (AP via Yahoo)
- The European Central Bank raises interest rates for the first time in five years, from 2.0% to 2.25%. This will affect the cost of money in the twelve Eurozone countries. (BBC)
- A Buddhist manuscript written on birch bark in the 1st century or 2nd century passes from a private collection to the University of Washington library, becoming part of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project. (uwnews.org)
- Muriel Degauque is identified as the Belgian suicide bomber who killed herself in Iraq on November 9, 2005.
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