Portal:Current events/2005 April 24
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April 24, 2005 (Sunday)
- Jawed uploads the first YouTube Video
- 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 United States, 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).