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December 23, 2005 (Friday)
- An Azeri passenger jet crashed after taking off from the Azerbaijan capital, Baku. (BBC)
- Different sources report that Chadian president Idriss Déby has said his country is in a state of either "war" or "belligerence" with Sudan following a recent rebel attack in which around 100 people were killed. (BBC) (Reuters)
- The 2012 Summer Olympics may have been given to London by a voting error, a senior IOC official theorised. (BBC)
- Astronomers have discovered new moons and rings around Uranus using the Hubble Space Telescope. (CNN)
- Lech Kaczyński was sworn in as President of the Republic of Poland. (BBC)
- U.S. News and World Report claimed that the United States government has been monitoring mosques in the United States since September 11 for traces of radiation. (US News)
- The ITV News Channel closes after 5 years
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