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- General elections in the Netherlands have resulted in a landslide gain for the Socialist Party. The Christian democratic CDA (pictured: leader Jan Peter Balkenende) remains the largest party, but no two parties can form a cabinet with a majority in parliament.
- The Nepal Civil War officially ends, with an accord signed between the government (flag pictured) and Maoist rebels.
- An international consortium signs a deal formally launching ITER, a project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
- Pierre Amine Gemayel, the Minister of Industry of Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
- Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko is critically ill in a London hospital after a suspected thallium poisoning.
- A Malagasy general fails in his coup d'état attempt against President Marc Ravalomanana.
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