Portal:Current events/2005 April 5
April 5, 2005 (Tuesday)
- 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. (Korea Herald) (Japan Times)
- Tony Blair calls the General Election in the United Kingdom for May 5, 2005, on the same day as the local elections. (BBC)
- Five Guatemalan politicians are convicted of racial discrimination for taunts hurled at Rigoberta Menchú. (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
- Preliminary results of the Italian regional elections show heavy losses for the parties in Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition. (Bloomberg) (Reuters)[permanent dead link] (BBC)
- American newscaster Peter Jennings states that he has lung cancer and will begin chemotherapy. (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". (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. (The Hindu) (Calcutta Telegraph) (Mumbai Newsline) (BBC)
- In Egypt, thousands of university students demonstrate for reform. (Middle East Online) (BBC)
- Nigerian senate speaker Adolphus Wabara resigns because of accusations that he took a large bribe from the education minister. (AllAfrica) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
- Deathcore band Despised Icon release their fist LP album called The Healing Process