Category:Politics and conflicts

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• [×] 2005 Political crisis in Brazil‎ (10 articles)
• [×] 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict‎ (57 articles)
• [×] 2006 Thailand coup‎ (5 articles)
• [×] 2007 Ontario provincial election‎ (60 articles)
• [×] 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election‎ (3 articles)
• [×] 2011 England riots‎ (4 articles)

3

• [×] 30A Protest‎ (8 articles)

9

• [×] 9/11‎ (53 articles)

A

• [×] Abortion‎ (60 articles)
• [×] African Union‎ (60 articles)
• [×] Anwar al-Awlaki‎ (4 articles)
• [+] Al-Qaeda‎ (159 articles; 2 subcategories)
• [×] Americans Elect‎ (13 articles)
• [×] Anna Politkovskaya‎ (9 articles)
• [×] April 24, 2005‎ (7 articles)
• [×] April 27, 2005‎ (12 articles)
• [×] April 28, 2005‎ (12 articles)
• [×] April 29, 2005‎ (10 articles)
• [+] Arab Spring‎ (62 articles; 7 subcategories)
• [+] ASEAN‎ (11 articles; 12 subcategories)
• [×] Australian federal election, 2010‎ (6 articles)

C

• [×] Campaign for "santorum" neologism‎ (5 articles)
• [×] Canadian federal elections 2008‎ (37 articles)
• [×] Civil war‎ (7 articles)

D

• [×] Don't ask, don't tell‎ (8 articles)

E

• [+] Elections‎ (704 articles; 19 subcategories)
• [×] ETA‎ (28 articles)
• [×] Everybody Draw Mohammed Day‎ (4 articles)

F

• [+] Free speech‎ (303 articles; 8 subcategories)
• [+] Freedom of the press‎ (25 articles; 1 subcategory)

G

• [+] G8‎ (33 articles; 1 subcategory)
• [×] G8 Summit July 2005‎ (4 articles)
• [×] Gun politics‎ (18 articles)

H

• [×] Hamas‎ (112 articles)
• [+] Human rights‎ (474 articles; 15 subcategories)
• [+] Hustler Magazine v. Falwell‎ (4 articles; 1 subcategory)

I

• [+] Immigration‎ (25 articles; 1 subcategory)
• [×] International aid‎ (9 articles)
• [+] Iraq War‎ (131 articles; 1 subcategory)
• [×] Israel/Palestine Conflict‎ (66 articles)

J

• [×] June 27, 2005‎ (10 articles)
• [×] June 28, 2005‎ (9 articles)
• [×] June 29, 2005‎ (10 articles)
• [×] June 30, 2005‎ (12 articles)

L

• [×] Libertarianism‎ (39 articles)

M

• [+] Military‎ (156 articles; 1 subcategory)
• [×] Minuteman Project‎ (5 articles)
• [×] MST in Brazil‎ (7 articles)

N

• [×] Nationalism‎ (11 articles)
• [×] NATO‎ (106 articles)

N cont.

• [×] Neo-Nazism‎ (13 articles)
• [+] Nuclear weapons‎ (22 articles; 1 subcategory)
• [×] NYC Transit Negotiations of 2005‎ (7 articles)

P

• [×] Palestine Liberation Organization‎ (5 articles)
• [×] Pat Robertson‎ (3 articles)
• [×] Peace and Freedom Party‎ (9 articles)
• [+] Political parties‎ (1 article; 17 subcategories)
• [+] Politicians‎ (19 articles; 216 subcategories)
• [+] Prime Minister of Canada‎ (7 articles; 3 subcategories)

R

• [×] Refugees‎ (9 articles)

S

• [×] Sierra Leone Civil War‎ (5 articles)
• [×] South Thailand insurgency‎ (35 articles)

T

• [×] Targeted killing‎ (5 articles)
• [×] Tea Party movement‎ (9 articles)
• [×] Terrorism alerts‎ (17 articles)
• [×] Terrorism convictions‎ (12 articles)
• [×] Terrorism laws‎ (18 articles)

U

• [+] United Nations‎ (503 articles; 12 subcategories)
• [×] US Civil War‎ (5 articles)
• [×] US War on Terror‎ (24 articles)

V

• [×] Valerie Plame scandal‎ (22 articles)

W

• [×] White supremacy‎ (7 articles)
• [×] World Trade Organization‎ (31 articles)
• [×] World War I‎ (13 articles)
• [×] World War II‎ (33 articles)

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• "Bigoted woman": controversial Gordon Brown remarks caught on air
• "Civil defence" thwarts Israeli air strike on Gaza refugee camp
• "Corrupt" New Zealand government to repay $768,000
• "Darfur a powder keg" says UN Head of Humanitarian Affairs
• "Jihad" Jack Thomas acquitted of terrorism conviction
• "Osama to Obama": Bin Laden addresses US President
• "Teddy bear teacher" returns to England
• "Ten Commandments" judge loses Alabama gubernatorial primary
• "Virtual fence" along US-Mexico border scrapped

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• $1,000 reward offered for answer from US President
• $106 billion war bill backed by U.S. House of Representatives
• $158 billion missing in U.S. Medicare drug benefit cost estimate
• $1m offer for NBC to include U.S. presidential candidate Gravel in TV debate

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• 'Afghanistan is a 20-year venture' warns Canadian general
• 'America’s Toughest Sheriff' to endorse Rick Perry for U.S. President
• 'Astonishing' figures show 800 Scottish NHS staff earning over £140,000
• 'Australian Values' to be taught in NSW schools
• 'Bloody Sunday Inquiry' publishes report into British Army killing of activists in Northern Ireland
• 'Buried' video surfaces of police making mass arrests during the Republican National Convention
• 'Denmark will be attacked' says one expert, 'Denmark safe' says another
• 'Dewey Defeats Truman' incident in California State Senate election
• 'Enough, enough, enough, enough': 1700 women march against mass rape in DR Congo
• 'Greatest parade' in Pichilemu commemorates First Junta of Chile
• 'Guantanamo'-style detention facility under construction on Australian Island
• 'Have them all shot': BBC gets 21,000+ complaints over Jeremy Clarkson's public sector striker comments
• 'Homer Simpson' contributes to U.S. presidential candidate Buddy Roemer
• 'Imagine a world without free knowledge', in Russia
• 'Imminent threat' as Foreign Office urges Britons to leave Benghazi
• 'Killing Fields' trial for S-21 chief Duch underway in Cambodia
• 'King Taksin operation' enters second day, Thai government disrupted
• 'No treaty withdrawal', says Lakota elder
• 'Scooter' Libby jail sentence commuted by US President George Bush
• 'Serious' terror threat in Mumbai; police hunt four suspected militants
• 'Stop being so damn respectful' say free speech supporters in London
• 'Troopergate' investigation finds Palin abused her power
• 'Very serious': Chinese government releases corruption report
• 'Where is your god now?': London policemen on trial accused of beating Muslim

1

• 1,000 arrested in Iraq in crackdown against al-Qaeda
• 10 American soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
• 10 killed in shootout in Kashmir
• 10,000 refuse to pay U.S. taxes to protest Iraq war
• 100s of thousands take to the streets across France
• 100th British soldier killed in Iraq
• 11 MPs ejected from Australian parliament
• 11 policemen dead after attack by Taliban
• 11 suspects in UK air bomb plot charged
• 112 year old joke fools political activists and the Associated Press
• 113th United States Congress convenes
• 11th suspect arrested in Laos overthrow plot; indictments handed down
• 12 soldiers killed in raid on peacekeeping base in Darfur
• 1200 schools may be closed by UK teachers strike
• 13 killed in U.S. air strike in Pakistan
• 13 schools torched in southern Thailand
• 13 U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash
• 130,000 farmers protest in Mexico against NAFTA
• 14 Indian, Pakistani pilgrims killed in Iraq
• 14 US soldiers dead after helicopter crash in Iraq
• 15 confirmed dead after Iraq bombing
• 15 Royal Navy sailors captured at gunpoint by Iranian guards
• 15,000 attended memorial for Zhao Ziyang
• 15th anniversary of Russian Federation Armed Forces.
• 17 hurt in southern Thailand blasts, schools closed
• 17 troops killed in bombing on Afghanistan-Pakistan border; Separate bombing kills dozens of civilians
• 188 Fatah supporters permitted to enter Israel
• 19 Burmese political prisoners released; more to come
• 19 killed in Baghdad blast
• 19 South Koreans return home after release from Taliban captivity

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• 2% of British pound coins are counterfeit according to research
• 20 fleeing Lebanese villagers killed by Israeli missile
• 20 killed in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan
• 20 wounded in explosion at Philippine karaoke bar
• 20,000 Californian state workers may lose their jobs
• 20,000 Poles demonstrate on the streets of Warsaw
• 20,000 South Koreans take to the streets to protest APEC
• 200 candles: Chileans celebrate country's Bicentennial
• 2005 National Conference in the Norwegian Centre Party
• 2005 National Conference in the Norwegian Socialist Left Party
• 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre
• 2005 World Social Forum-Brazil coverage
• 2006 "Stolenwealth" Games to confront Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
• 2006 New Zealand Maori Electoral Option
• 2006 U.S. Congressional Elections
• 2007 French presidential elections: Ségolène Royal calls for gentle reforms
• 2008 Boao Forum for Asia starts with sectors on economy, environment, and the Internet
• 2008 Dakar Rally cancelled over terrorist threat
• 2008 G8 summit launched in Hokkaido, Japan
• 2008 GOP convention to be in Minnesota
• 2008 Olympic torch arrives in London
• 2008 Taiwan presidential election: First official debate with citizen journalists' participation
• 2008-09-21: CCTV footage shows bombing of Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan
• 2010 UK general election results
• 21 dead in south Thailand attacks
• 22 hostages freed after raid in Pakistani army headquarters
• 25 more NZ police head off to East Timor
• 26 Americans, mostly CIA agents, charged for kidnapping in Italy
• 26 Australian citizens detained in immigration centres
• 27 die from pipeline explosion in Diwaniya, Iraq
• 27 reported dead in Iranian suicide bombings

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• 3 out of 4 UMP voters prefer Sarkozy for President of France
• 30 civillians killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
• 30 dead in Baghdad bomb blasts, hundreds of people injured
• 3000 homeless after fire breaks out in Chad refugee camp
• 31 killed in Afghanistan bus bombing
• 34% more Americans killed in Iraq during past 12 months than in previous 12 months
• 38 dead, over 180 injured as blasts rock Maharashtra town
• 38 killed in attack on Afghan bank
• 38 people die in suicide attack during political rally in Pakistan

4

• 40 Asylum seekers missing off Torres Strait
• 40 injured after attacks in Thailand
• 400 Australian soldiers sent to Afghanistan
• 41 killed by suicide bombing near Pakistan's Swat valley
• 43 dead in Iraqi bomb blast
• 45 killed after Yemen protesters fired upon
• 46 illegal Afghan immigrants suffocate in truck in Pakistan

5

• 5 Afghans, Canadian soldier injured in mortar attack
• 5 dead in Pakistan bomb attack
• 5 reporters hurt in conflict over ex-President's monument in Taiwan
• 50 arrested ahead of Swaziland democracy protests
• 51 killed in Yemen election rally stampede
• 51 suspects named by UN for war crimes in Darfur
• 5th Canadian soldier in a week killed in Afghanistan

6

• 6 Canadian soldiers injured in Afghan attack
• 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Asia and Pacific commemorated
• 61.6% of the Dutch people say 'no' to EU constitution
• 63% of Israelis want Olmert to quit
• 676,000 Canadian census forms unfilled countrywide
• 68% of Dutch consider their government "Lap Dog" of United States

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• 7/11 blasts suspect held in Kashmir
• 70 insurgents killed in Afghanistan
• 700,000 march in Beirut; Hezbollah leader lambasts Bush and Rice
• 75 Iraqi militants reported dead in U.S. offensive
• 77 names added to fallen journalist memorial in Washington, D.C.

8

• 8 Afghans killed in early morning raid
• 800 British troops being pulled out of Iraq

9

• 9 US soldiers killed in Iraq bombing; 20 others wounded
• 90 days detention still on Blair's agenda

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• A 1-year long strike against FMC Novamed: Women workers allege unfair treatment
• A policeman is killed and another one is tortured in MST camp, in Brazil
• A timeline: Novak, Rove, Cooper
• Abbas and Olmert meet before Bush visit
• Abbas fires security chiefs for failure to curb lawlessness
• Abbas orders more security reforms, hundreds of security officers to be forced to retire
• Abbas, Sharon declare truce at Middle East summit
• Abbott calls for independent boards to govern Australian hospitals
• Abbott labs ends dispute with Brazilian government over AIDS drug
• Abducted German family freed in Yemen
• Abhisit Vejjajiva administration on brink of collapse
• Abkhazia to close border with Georgia following bomb blasts
• Aboriginal primacy bill introduced to the New South Wales legislative assembly
• Aboriginal Sovereignty Day Declared
• Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission endorses Children's Song
• Abramoff begins prison sentence
• Abu Ghraib prison camp struck by tractor bomb
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike
• According to UN report, bribes cost Afghans US$2.5 billion per year
• Accuser admits he lied, former Canadian immigration minister cleared of wrongdoing
• ACLU describes President Bush's veto of CIA waterboarding ban as 'a callous disregard for human rights'
• ACLU President Strossen on religion, drugs, guns and impeaching George Bush
• ACLU, EFF challenging US 'secret' court orders seeking Twitter data
• ACLU: Gen. Sanchez possibly perjured himself at 2004 Senate inquiry
• ACT Civil Unions Act invalidated by Governor General
• ACTA rejected by European Parliament; protesters rejoice
• Activist ejected from Virginia senator’s re-election rally
• Activists in Tunisia thrashed by police
• Activists protest against School of the Americas
• Activists remember Burundi's Gatumba massacre
• Ad-hoc Liaison Committee meets in Oslo, Norway
• Advertising contract scandal could bring down Canadian government
• Afghan attack kills five Canadians
• Afghan coalition forces repel Taliban ambush: 8 killed, 16 captured
• Afghan election rival accuses incumbent Karzai of vote rigging
• Afghan employee kills U.S. citizen at Kabul CIA base
• Afghan government claims U.S. air strike killed dozens of civilians
• Afghan government: More than 90 civilians killed by US airstrike
• Afghan Member of Parliament escapes assasination attempt
• Afghan opium plantings expected to be up 40% from 2005
• Afghan pilot kills nine Americans
• Afghan policeman shoots and kills five British soldiers
• Afghan president accepts runoff vote; UN seeks to fire 200 officials
• Afghan president Hamid Karzai opens new terminal at Kabul International Airport
• Afghan president Karzai widens lead in early voting count
• Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah may boycott runoff election
• Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah withdraws from elections
• Afghan presidential candidate Karzai wins majority of votes
• Afghan protestors shot after mosque raid sparks anger
• Afghan women's rights official shot dead
• Afghan-Tajik border control transferred from Russia
• Afghanistan announces arrests in UN guesthouse attack
• Afghanistan begins partial vote recount
• Afghanistan general Stanley McChrystal cleared of wrongdoing
• Afghanistan holds first democratic general elections
• Afghanistan prepares for presidential runoff election
• Afghanistan sees worst days of violence since 2001
• Afghanistan suicide attack wounds more than twenty
• Afghanistan women protest Shia Family Law
• Afghanistan's parliament rejects Karzai's cabinet nominations
• Afghanistan: 17 killed, 47 injured in Afghan suicide attack on market
• Afghans riot after civilians die in crash
• Africa-Europe summit concludes with mixed results
• African nations gather to support a ban on cluster bombs