Portal:Current events/2005 May 4
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
- Palestinian towns to the Palestinian Authority. Israel claims they will resume the handover process when militant groups are disarmed. The Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, had agreed to hand over five West Bank towns to Palestinian control, but thus far has only handed over Tulkarm and Jericho. (BBC)
- Israeli troops shoot dead two teenage boys. The cousins were protesting against the building of the Israeli West Bank barrier among a group of people, many of whom were throwing stones at the soldiers. According to the Stop the Wall group, protestors were chased by Israeli soldiers using live ammunition. (BBC)
- War on Terrorism:
- The Pakistani government announces that it has captured Abu Faraj al-Libbi. If verified, this is the most important Al-Qaeda suspect to have been arrested thus far. (BBC)
- A former September 11, 2001 attacks with orders to "Capture Bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box on dry ice" and to leave other Al-Qaeda leaders' "heads up on pikes." (BBC) (Wikinews)
- Conflict in Iraq:
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- nephew of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, has been arrested, accused of aiding the insurgency. (BBC)
- insurgents who demand the withdrawal of Australian troops from Iraq. John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia has said he refuses to negotiate. (BBC)
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- A Peruvian congressional committee accuses President Alejandro Toledo of electoral fraud. (BBC)
- Peru suspends free trade talks with Chile due to allegations that Chile supplied arms to Ecuador during that nation's 1995 war with Peru. (BBC)
- U.S. firefighter Donald Herbert, blind and virtually silent due to brain injury since 1995, recovers unexpectedly, regaining the powers of speech. (New York Times) (registration required) (Buffalo News) (Reuters AlertNet)