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April 24, 2005

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April 24, 2005

Postby admin » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:26 pm

April 24, 2005
About 1 million people march silently through Mexico City in support of the capital's embattled mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (Bloomberg) (CNN) (El Universal) (BBC) (The Guardian)Togolese presidential election, 2005: Three killed, amid claims of fraud in tense election in Togo to choose the successor to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, hardline ruler for 38 years, from amongst Faure Gnassingbé, the 39-year-old son of the late leader, and several challengers led by Emmanuel Bob-Akitani. (Khaleej Times), (CNN)Leaders of Asian and African countries celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bandung Conference. (People's Daily Online), (KeralaNext), (XinHua)Tens of thousands of Armenians mark the 90th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. (CBC), (Reuters)Soyuz TMA-5: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan, bringing 3 astronauts, Russian Salizhan Sharipov, Chinese American Leroy Chiao and Italian Roberto Vittori, safely back to Earth from the International Space Station. (Reuters)Pope Benedict XVI is formally installed as Pope of the Catholic Church in an inaugural mass. (BBC) (CNN)Ousted president of Ecuador, Lucio Gutiérrez, moves to exile in Brazil. (Reuters) (ITV)Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez ends military cooperation with USA, claiming that US army training officers in the country have been agitating unrest against him. (Reuters)In Kuwait, around 7000 Bengali workers storm the embassy of Bangladesh in Kuwait City to protest against unpaid wages. (Bangladesh Journal) (Al-Jazeera (Reuters)Forty Pakistani Christians are arrested in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for practicing their religion in violation of a Saudi law forbidding the practice of any religion but Islam. Christian Today.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2005
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