টেমপ্লেট:In the news
- The United States walks out of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights following Sudan's election to the commission.
- Martín Torrijos wins 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 U.S. forces, is reported by Brigadier General Janis Karpinski to have been under the control of military intelligence, "24 hours a day."