টেমপ্লেট:In the news
- Voting begins in Panama's presidential election.
- EU enlargement: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia join the European Union.
- Abu Ghraib prison, where Iraqi POWs were abused by US forces, is reported by Brigadier General Janis Karpinski to have been under the control of military intelligence, "24 hours a day".
- South African president Thabo Mbeki is sworn into office for a second time after being overwhelmingly reelected on April 14.