April 5, 2005

April 5, 2005

"See also" April 4, 2005 - April 2005 - April 6, 2005----
* The government of South Korea complains to the Japanese government about a revised set of official Japanese history schoolbooks. The complaint alleges the textbooks whitewash Japan's "imperialist" past, and question Korean sovereignty of the disputed Liancourt Rocks. [http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/04/06/200504060007.asp (Korea Herald)] [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050406a1.htm (Japan Times)]
* Tony Blair calls the General Election in the United Kingdom for May 5 2005, on the same day as the local elections. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4409935.stm (BBC)]
* Five Guatemalan politicians are convicted of racial discrimination for taunts hurled at Rigoberta Menchú. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04478001.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4411207.stm (BBC)]
* Preliminary results of the Italian regional elections show heavy losses for the parties in Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=a6JPk9o62lYY&refer=europe (Bloomberg)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8083019 (Reuters)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4409583.stm (BBC)]
* American newscaster Peter Jennings states that he has lung cancer and will begin chemotherapy. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/business/media/06jennings.html (New York Times)]
* Rwandan official Aloys Mutabingwa, a representative at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, says that 100 Rwandans connected to the Rwandan genocide are "comfortably living in France". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4414619.stm (BBC)]
* Mumbai, India police investigate a fire in which 21 circus animals died. They suspect that the Russian Circus on Ice intentionally abandoned the animals. [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200504060302.htm (The Hindu)] [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050406/asp/nation/story_4579671.asp (Calcutta Telegraph)] [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=123931 (Mumbai Newsline)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4413567.stm (BBC)]
* In Egypt, thousands of university students demonstrate for reform. [http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13144 (Middle East Online)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4413843.stm (BBC)]
* Nigerian senate speaker Adolphus Wabara resigns because of accusations that he took a large bribe from the education minister. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200504050969.html (AllAfrica)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/55a25c68e13134a6ed8b24a78072b90b.htm (Reuters AlertNet)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4412135.stm (BBC)]
* Deathcore band Despised Icon release their fist LP album called The Healing Process


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