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, the largest university
in the United
Kingdom
outside London
, is created
by the merger of the Victoria University of
Manchester and UMIST. (BBC)
baseball star now playing
for Major League Baseball's
Seattle Mariners, breaks George Sisler's 84-year-old record for hits in
a season, prompting praise from Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi and celebrations in both
Seattle
and Tokyo
.
(CNN/SI)
in the U.S.
state of Washington
awakens, with a minor eruption of steam, smoke, and ash. (Fox News) (CNN)
is investigating whether it can claim ownership of
the North
Pole
, by studying how far the underwater portion of
Greenland
, a Danish territory,
extends. Canada
and Russia
are already
undertaking similar investigations regarding their own
claims. (Toronto Star) presidential debate show that a majority of viewers
thought the challenger, John Kerry, won
the contest. (The Guardian) (BBC) (Indianapolis Star) (CBS)
city of Sialkot
(located near the border of Indian
-controlled
Kashmir
). The attack follows the killing of a
leading Sunni cleric. (BBC)
, without an election, when
no other candidate secures the necessary nominations. This
is the third time a sitting president has been reappointed
unopposed, following President Seán
T. O'Kelly in 1952 and
President Patrick Hillery in 1983.
(Irish Examiner) (RTÉ)
troops, backed by tanks and
other military vehicles, enter the northern Gaza Strip
city of Jabaliya, and the
nearby towns of Beit
Hanoun
and Beit
Lahiya
. At least five Palestinians are killed by
Israeli rocket strikes on Jabaliya. (BBC) (The Guardian) military
releases unmanned drone
footage of the Gaza Strip showing what Israel says are Palestinian militants
loading rockets into a van marked "UN".
The UN dismisses the claim, saying that the footage actually shows
a stretcher being loaded into a van. (Islam Online) (Haaretz: 1, 2) and Iraqi
government
forces attack the insurgent-held city of Samarra
in northern Iraq. U.S.
officials say over 100 militants were killed and 37 were captured,
while local doctors say at least 80 people died, and 100 were
wounded, including civilians. (BBC) (Canada.com News) (The Independent) officials say that U.S. forces rescued Yahlin Kaya, a Turkish
construction worker who had been held hostage by militants, during today's assault on the
city of Samarra. (Reuters) (The Australian)
Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez
Zapatero approves a bill to legalize same-sex marriage; the government believes
that the bill will pass the full parliament. (CNN) (BBC) presidential election:
Fox News apologizes for an incident on
Friday, October 1, in which it posted a story containing false
quotes attributed to president candidate Senator John
Kerry. Fox says the reporter
who wrote the story, Carl Cameron, had
written the article "in jest" and had not intended for it to be
posted. (Houston Chronicle) (The Guardian)
and Assam
in
north-east India kill at
least 48 people. Local police suspect a rebel group, the
National
Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). (BBC) (Hindustan Times) and calls for international aid following Israel's raid into
Jabaliya. (News 24 [S. Africa]) forces shoot dead four Palestinian militants, members of
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
and Hamas, who had tried to infiltrate the
Israeli Kibbutz of Nahal Oz
, about 200 meters outside of that Kibbutz.
(Haaretz) (Al Jazeera) (The Statesman [India]) (INN
[Israel]) government issues a
statement urging Israel not to use
excessive force during its current offensive into the Gaza Strip. (BBC) communities that border on the Gaza Strip, or Israeli
settlements within it, regardless of Israeli military
operations. (BBC) military begins an operation to create a 9 km (5.5
mile) "buffer zone" within the northern
Gaza
Strip. Israel says that the purpose of the zone is
protect Israel from attacks using Qassam
rockets (which have a 9 km (5.5 mile) range). (The Telegraph) (CNN), which has left 125 insurgents and 70 civilians
dead, U.S. and Iraqi government
officials say they have secured 70 percent of the city.
(AP) (BBC)
, Anton Rop, concedes
defeat in today's parliamentary
election. Early results suggest the opposition will make
large gains at the expense of the current government. (BBC)
police announce that they have arrested Mikel Albizu Iriarte ("Mikel Antza")
and Maria Soledad
Iparraguirre, who are suspected of being important leaders in
the Basque separatist group ETA.
Sixteen other people were detained. (BBC) Department of Foreign Affairs, which has designated
Hamas a terrorist organization said it "will
immediately seek clarification from Mr. Hansen directly and from UN
authorities". (CBC) over claims
that Gaza
militants
used a UN vehicle to transport a homemade
Qassam rocket. The UN body
showed what it said was the ambulance seen
in footage released by the Israel Defense Forces and presented its
driver and rescue workers to reporters. (Haaretz) (Jerusalem Post) (Israel Insider) halt its
current military operations in the Gaza Strip, saying that they have led to "the deaths of scores
of Palestinians, among them many
civilians, including children". He
also urges the Palestinian
Authority to convince Hamas to halt the
firing of rockets into Israel. (Jerusalem Post) raids in the Gaza Strip town of Jabaliya.
More than 60 Palestinians, including
civilians, have been killed during Israel's current offensive into
Gaza. Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon says the Gaza
operation will continue until Qassam
rocket attacks end. (BBC) (Toronto Star) helicopter-launched
missile moments after they launch a Qassam
rocket into Israel. (Reuters)
nun, and
Karl I, last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in a
ceremony in Rome
.
John Paul II has made a total of 1,340 beatifications (including
today's), more than all previous popes combined. (Reuters) capital of
Baghdad
, and one in the northern city of Mosul
— kill at
least 26 people and wound at least 100. All the casualties
are Iraqis.
(Reuters) (BBC) military continues its aerial bombardment of the
rebel-held city of Fallujah
. Local hospital officials say that nine
people were killed. Elsewhere, two U.S. soldiers are shot dead
at a checkpoint in Baghdad. (AP) (BBC)'s 38th Parliament
opens with the selection of the Commons
Speaker. It is the first minority government in 25 years. The
Throne Speech follows
tomorrow. (CBC)
presidential
election. (BBC) raid into the Jabaliya refugee
camp. (BBC) (Channel news Asia) (Reuters)
riots of 2002
begins in Mumbai
.
India's
Supreme Court
ordered a re-trial after a Gujarat court acquitted the defendants. (BBC)
ratifies legislation creating a tribunal that will
try leaders of the former regime, the Khmer
Rouge, for genocide and crimes against humanity.
(BBC) Vice
President Dick Cheney and challenger
Senator John Edwards meet in Cleveland
, Ohio
, for the
only vice presidential debate of the
2004 U.S. presidential
election. (ABC) (MSNBC) (BBC) Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld, when asked about
connections between Saddam Hussein
and al-Qaeda in an interview with the
Council on Foreign
Relations, states "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong,
hard evidence that links the two". Several hours later
he issues a statement saying that he was "regrettably
misunderstood" and that there was "solid evidence of the presence
in Iraq of al-Qaeda
members, including some that have been in Baghdad". (BBC) (Reuters), Megawati
Sukarnoputri, concedes defeat in the country's presidential
election, which took place last week. Her successor,
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,
will be inaugurated on October 20. (NEWS.com.au)
announces
that its Shahab-3 missile has been modified
to increase its range (originally 810 miles (1,300 km)) to 1,250
miles (2,000 km). This puts parts of Europe — and all of the
Middle East — within range of Iran's
missiles for the first time. (Reuters) (The Scotsman)
presidential election:
With elections due in four days, Hamid
Karzai makes a public appearance in Ghazni
, his only
campaign rally outside of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul
.
One of
Karzai's main opponents, General Abdul Rashid Dostum makes an appearance
at Mazari
Sharif
, whilst another, Yunus
Qanuni, addresses crowds in the capital. (BBC)
physicists David Gross, David
Politzer, and Frank Wilczek are
awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physics for "the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
(Nobel Prize) vetoes a United
Nations resolution urging Israel to halt its current offensive in the Gaza Strip. Over 70 Palestinians, including civilians, have died in
the offensive. (Xinhua [China]) (Reuters) backs down from its claim that a rocket was loaded
into a UN ambulance. The Israeli military said that it is "re-evaluating" its claim.
(The Guardian) (AP) arrests 13 Palestinians
employed by the United Nations,
saying that they are suspected of links to terrorist groups. (Haaretz) aircraft. (INN
[Israel]) (BBC) Senate Armed Services Committee,
Charles Duelfer, head of the
Iraq Survey Group announces that
the group found no evidence that Iraq under
Saddam Hussein had produced any
weapons of mass
destruction since 1991, when UN
sanctions were
imposed. This directly contradicts the main argument used by
the George W. Bush administration for invading Iraq in 2003. (CNN) (BBC) and Mongolian
archaeologists
announce that they have found the 13th century palace of Genghis Khan, at a site about 150 miles east of
Ulan
Bator
, Mongolia, and that his
tomb
may be located nearby. (CNN) (Japan Times) (Scotsman) National Guard recruiting center in
Anah
, a roadside bomb kills a civilian and wounds four policemen in Basra
, and a
Kurdish tribal leader and his companion are
shot dead in Mosul.
(Reuters)
begins three days of hearings into the federal
government's reference of a draft bill to legalize same-sex marriage. The court will
review the bill's constitutionality, hearing arguments from groups
on either side of the debate. A ruling is not expected for months.
(CBC) Royal Navy rescue ship
reaches the , which is adrift off the Irish coast following an electrical fire en route to
Halifax
yesterday. Heavy seas have impeded rescue
efforts, and one crewman has died being airlifted to hospital.
(BBC)
recommends that talks be opened with Turkey aiming for
it to join the
European Union. (BBC) shells the town of Beit Lahiya. (BBC)
. One of the militants blew up when hit by
Israeli gunfire, killing a Thai
worker in
addition to himself. The other two militants were killed by
IDF forces. Gaza
Strip. (Haaretz) (INN
[Israel])'s claim that it has detained 13 of its staff in
Gaza. A spokesman said a member of the Gaza staff
had been in detention for two years, but knew of no one else in
Israeli custody. Israel qualified its earlier statement, admitting
that the number 13 referred to people detained in the past four
years, some of whom are no longer in custody. (BBC) Irwin Rose are awarded
the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for "the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein
degradation". (Haaretz) (Nobel Prize), a last
minute compromise between the current minority federal government and the two
largest opposition parties ends a dispute over the wording of the
throne speech and avoids a premature
dissolution of
parliament. (Toronto Star)
seizes the servers of the open-publishing network Indymedia in the U.S. and the
UK, disabling
Indymedia websites in many countries. No reason was given.
(IMC: 1, 2)
towns in the Sinai Peninsula
frequented by Israeli tourists.
The
largest explosion, which killed at least 34 and wounding 105, was
at the Hilton Taba in Taba
, near the border with Israel
. The other two explosions occurred at the
towns of Ras al-Sultan and Nuweiba
, killing two Israelis and four Egyptians. A
group calling itself Jamayia al-Islamia al-Alamiya ("World
Islamist Group") later claims responsibility and threatens further
attacks. (Al Jazeera) (Haaretz) (The Australian) (ABC) (CNN)'s four
Victoria-class
submarine, is taken under tow, after being adrift for two days
following an onboard fire that crippled the boat. One member
of the crew has died. (BBC: 1,
2) (Pravda)
author Elfriede
Jelinek is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "her
musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that
with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and
their subjugating power". (Nobel Prize) (ABC) city of Multan
, killing
39 people at a memorial for murdered Sunni
leader Azam Tariq. (BBC). The report says that 72.5 percent of
Palestinians will be living in poverty by the end of 2006, that Israeli restrictions are hampering emergency aid
deliveries, and that, since September
28, 82 Palestinians and 5 Israelis, including 26 children, have
been killed. (BBC) (UN) military shelled a crowd near the Jabaliya
refugee camp
. Israel says that an Israeli helicopter gunship fired at two people attempting
to launch a Qassam rocket.
(BBC), announces his abdication. His successor will be chosen
by a special council. (CNN) President George W. Bush and
challenger Senator John Kerry meet at Washington
University
in St. Louis
, Missouri
for the second of three U.S. presidential
debates. (BBC) (AP) (Reuters) (AFP) president, Michael Badnarik of the United States Libertarian
Party and David Cobb of the United States Green Party, are
arrested while attempting to attend the second of the three planned
U.S.
presidential debates. (AP) (WorldNetDaily), Egypt.
Officials say up to 20 more bodies could be recovered. (Haaretz)
, the
capital city of the Philippines
. Its effects are felt as far as 90 miles
(145 km) north of the city. The quake causes buildings to sway and
knocks out power in some areas, but no serious damage or injuries
are reported. (CNN) (USGS) hostage Kenneth Bigley was beheaded yesterday by his
captors, members of Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad
militant group, despite last-minute exchanges between the group and
the British government. (The Guardian) (The Telegraph) (Al Jazeera) (Al-Bawaba) air strike destroys a
building in the Iraqi city of
Fallujah, killing at least 12 people and wounding 16.
The U.S. says that it bombed a safe-house
used by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
but local doctors say the strike hit a house soon after a wedding
party, killing civilians, including children. (Swiss Info) (Reuters) (Boston Globe) (BBC)
environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to
sustainable development, democracy and peace". (Nobel Prize) (BBC) Embassy in Paris
,
shattering windows in nearby buildings and injuring about 10
people. (Reuters) (BBC) "Sinagot ni Gretchen si Lawrence"., Israeli troops shoot and kill Abed Rauf Nabhan, a local Hamas leader, as he prepares to fire an anti-tank
missile at Israeli tanks in Jebaliya
. The Israeli military says that Nabhan was
responsible for a rocket attack that killed two Israeli children in
Sderot
on Sukkot eve.
(Maariv) began its offensive
10 days ago. (ABC News) (BBC) slum of Sadr
City
between the Iraqi government and local militants
loyal to Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The militants will
turn in medium and heavy weapons during a five-day grace period,
and Iraqi and U.S. forces will then take control of the area.
(CNN)'s presidential election
ends peacefully, but its legitimacy comes into question when all 15
candidates opposing incumbent president Hamid Karzai withdraw, alleging that election
irregularities had invalidated the vote. (Reuters) (BBC) in a decade,
kills six people in the Tokyo area.
(Channel News Asia) helicopter destroyed a
home in the Gaza
Strip town of Jabaliya, killing a
schoolteacher and wounding six
others. (BBC)
's transitional
parliament elects Abdullahi Yusuf, a former army officer,
interim
president. He will be Somalia's first head of state since 1991, when tribal warlords overthrew the ruling military dictatorship. The election was
held in Nairobi
, Kenya, since the
situation in Somalia remains dangerous. (BBC) (ABC), killing at least 10 people and wounding 17,
including a U.S. soldier. (AP)
, dropping as much as 7 inches (180 mm) of
rain. (CNN)
Interior Ministry requests that all
non-Muslims currently in Saudi Arabia refrain
from eating, drinking or smoking in public. "Authorities
will take deterrent measures such as terminating work contracts of,
and deporting, violators" [84212] government's treatment of certain suspected
terrorists being held outside the U.S. is in violation of U.S.
treaties, international human rights law, and the Geneva Conventions. (BBC) kills two U.S. soldiers and injures five others, while in the
northern city of Mosul a suicide
car bomb detonated near a U.S. military
convoy kills a U.S. soldier and two Iraqis and injures 27 others. (ABC/AP) (News.com.au) military police are investigating charges that an
Israeli army company commander
repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl while the girl lay
wounded or dead. (Haaretz) (BBC) (Maarviv) (The Guardian), despite a recommendation by the Israel Defense Forces to
withdraw. Since the offensive began, 114 Palestinians — 39
civilians and 75 combatants — have been killed. (Haaretz), Egypt at the
site of Thursday's bombing. Egypt and Israeli forensic experts announce
that they have identified 12 Israelis, 6 Egyptians, 2 Italians
, 1 Russian, and 13 Eastern
Europeans among those killed. (Haaretz) (Israeli MFA)
begin a four day general strike in protest of fuel price
increases caused by the last year's repeal of government subsidies. (BBC)
's general election show the
opposition Labour Party
winning the largest proportion of the vote. (BBC) state of Nevada
are gathering information regarding allegations
that a private voter registration
firm, Voters Outreach of
America, destroyed registration forms collected from Democratic voters
while submitting those collected from Republican
voters. (KLAS-TV)'s legislature votes to allow a nine-member council
to choose a successor to King Norodom
Sihanouk. It is expected the council will choose Prince
Norodom Sihamoni. (VOA), survives an apparent assassination attempt when a
car bomb explodes in his convoy.
(Reuters), Ghadir Mokheimer, an 11-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl, is struck in the chest and critically
wounded by gunfire when Israeli troops open fire near her school. She dies
one day later. The Israeli army
says soldiers returned fire after coming under mortar attack. (BBC: 1, 2) (CNN) government announces that last month, Nigerian
Sharia courts sentenced two women, one of whom is pregnant, to death by stoning on charges of committing adultery, while acquitting
the two men involved. The sentence may still be appealed.
(Reuters) announces that women will
be prohibited from running as candidates or voting in the country's
upcoming municipal
election. The elections, the first in Saudi Arabia since
the 1960s, will be held from February 10
to April 21, 2005.
(CNN). The U.S. says the restaurant was being used
by militants loyal to Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi. Witnesses say two civilian security guards were killed in the attack.
(BBC) (ABC Australia) (Reuters)
of former Yugoslav
president Slobodan
Milošević for alleged war crimes has
resumed after a month's delay. (BBC) test fires a nuclear-capable missile with a range of 1,500
km (930 miles), sufficient to reach most cities in neighboring
India.
Pakistan and India routinely test their missiles. (BBC) (The Hindu [India])
rejects an offer by Taiwanese President
Chen Shui-bian to begin a peace
dialogue, deriding the offer as "meaningless", and accusing Chen of
making "an open and audacious expression of Taiwan independence" by explicitly
stating that the "Republic of China
is Taiwan
and Taiwan is the Republic of China".
(VOA) President George W. Bush and
challenger Senator John Kerry meet at Arizona
State University
in Tempe
, Arizona
for the last of three U.S. presidential
debates. (ABC) Foreign Minister
Jack Straw comments on
Israeli actions in the Gaza
Strip, saying that the United Kingdom "unreservedly
condemns all acts of terrorism including
the firing of Qassam rockets", but
that "Israel has an obligation under international law to ensure
that its response to terrorism is proportionate to the threat it
faces, as well as a duty to avoid innocent civilian casualties",
and that "[Israel] is not meeting those obligations".
(BBC) (E-Politix) arrests Imad
Qawasameh, a senior Hamas leader, in
Hebron
. The Hebron branch of Hamas has claimed
responsibility for a double suicide
bombing on August 31 in the Israeli
city of Beersheba
that killed 16 people. (BBC) (Haaretz) army expands
its operation in the Gaza
Strip into Beit
Lahiya. A missile fired from an Israeli helicopter
kills a Hamas militant, Mohammed Marous, and wounds three others.
Separately, two Fatah militants are killed.
(Haaretz) (Reuters) town of Sderot. Residents are alerted by a newly
installed early warning system; no injuries are reported. (Haaretz) (Reuters) Prime
Minister Ayad Allawi issues an ultimatum to the city of Fallujah, warning that a major new military operation will
be launched if all foreign militants are not expelled from the
city. (Reuters) city of
Fallujah deteriorate, with locals threatening to expel the
foreigners by force. Locals have killed at least five
foreign fighters in recent weeks, and foreign fighters have taken
refuge in the city's commercial district after being denied shelter
in residential neighborhoods. (MSNBC) by the country's Throne Council. His father,
former King Norodom Sihanouk,
abdicated on October
7. (CBC News) government orders the freezing of any assets that
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's militant
group, Tawhid and Jihad — which has
claimed responsibility for killing Kenneth Bigley — may hold in Britain.
(BBC) Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon accepts an Israeli Defence Force plan to begin
withdrawing troops from Jabalia
, Beit
Lahiya, and Beit
Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip this weekend. (Haaretz) in 100 cities march in a series of demonstrations
across Israel opposing their government's proposal to withdraw Israeli
settlers from the Gaza
Strip and parts of the West Bank
. warplanes launch sustained air strikes against the
rebel-held city of Fallujah, following a breakdown in peace talks between the
Iraqi government and
representatives of the city. (Reuters) insurgents
carry out two bomb attacks within Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone
", which houses Iraqi government offices and U.S.
military facilities. U.S. officials say that 6 Iraqis and 4 American were killed in the attacks. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad militant group later
claims responsibility for the bombings. (BBC) government
warns of a possible increase in terrorist
activity during the Muslim month of Ramadan (which starts tonight), and says the
government is taking extra precautions. (Reuters) government announces that it will not restrict the
number of worshippers allowed to enter Jerusalem
's Al-Aqsa
mosque compound (located in
the area known as the Temple Mount
in Judaism) during the
Muslim month of Ramadan, despite concerns voiced by security
officials that the site is dangerously structurally unstable and
could collapse if too many people visit. The Israeli
government had earlier suggested it would limit the number of
visitors, with mosque officials accusing Israel of having
"political reasons" to do so. (Haaretz) (Jerusalem Post) (AFP) and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement ending their last border dispute. Details of the
agreement have not yet been released. (AP/Reuters) (Economic Times [India])
agrees, for the first time, to hear cases brought
against Russia by Chechen
civilians. (BBC) (ECHR press release)
, admit for the first time the actual scale of the
1995 Srebrenica
massacre,
providing a list of over 7,000 Muslim
victims. The Bosnian Serb president admitted in June that
Serb forces had committed the massacre, but did not give a specific
number of victims. (BBC) (Melbourne Herald-Sun) (Channel News Asia), crashes at
the end of a runway at Halifax International
Airport
in Nova
Scotia
, Canada. All 7 of the crew are confirmed dead in
Canada's worst-ever air cargo crash. (CBC)
are postponed until April 2005. (BBC) Army is
investigating up to 19 members of an Army Reserve unit stationed in
Iraq who refused to take part in a fuel delivery convoy
mission they considered unsafe. Relatives of the soldiers
say that several soldiers described it as a "suicide mission". Relatives also say that the
soldiers were held under guard for almost two days, although an
army spokesperson denies the claim. (Daily Telegraph) (San Francisco Gate) (Washington Times) air strikes against Fallujah continue. The U.S. military says that the
bombings are "not the beginning of a major offensive". (Reuters) military sources say that the U.S. has asked that some British
troops be moved to an area south of Baghdad to replace U.S.
troops moved to Fallujah. Sources also say that the troops would be
under U.S. command, a possibility which provokes criticism from
opposition members of Parliament
. (BBC)
and Costa
Rican
president, Miguel
Angel Rodriguez, is arrested after stepping down last week on
allegations of corruption. He is not formally
charged but a judge is demanding him to testify. (BBC) army clears an
officer accused of repeatedly shooting a Palestinian schoolgirl, Iman al-Hams, while she lay wounded or dead,
accepting the officer's claim that he actually shot into the ground
near the girl. A separate military police investigation is continuing.
(BBC)
, Denmark, Greece
, Japan, and
Tanzania as the non-permanent members of
the UN Security Council for its
next two-year term, which begins in January 2005. (BBC)
region of Sudan
since March.
(BBC)
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is acquitted of treason charges. (BBC) prosecutors file charges against Abu Bakar Bashir, alleging he was involved
in an August 2003 bomb attack on a Jakarta
hotel and accusing him for the first time of
involvement in the 2002 Bali terrorist bombing
. (BBC) (ABC)
, concludes in a report that "a substantial
proportion of Gulf War veterans are ill with multisymptom
conditions not explained by wartime stress or psychiatric illness"
and a "probable link" to exposure to neurotoxins. (BBC) (NY Times)
and Mosul, Iraq, killing
three U.S. soldiers and
a civilian in Qaim, and one U.S. soldier in
Mosul. A mortar attack in
Qaim kills four Iraqis and wounds 30. (Reuters). No casualties are reported. (Reuters) (BBC) military
transport helicopters crash in southwestern Baghdad leaving two U.S. soldiers dead and two others
wounded. (Reuters) forces
withdraw from the northern Gaza Strip, ending Operation Days of
Penitence. Three men, allegedly militants, and a
70-year-old Palestinian woman are
killed on the final day. Over 100 Palestinians have died in the
course of the 16-day operation; BBC sources say about one third
were civilians.
, China
. No one is hurt. (CNN) refugee camp of
Rafah
with ten tanks and three
bulldozers. (BBC) ambassador to Uzbekistan
is recalled and suspended after criticizing the use
of intelligence allegedly obtained under torture by the Uzbekistan
government. (BBC) continues as U.S. tanks
blockade the city and insurgent targets are hit by air and
artillery. Hospital officials say four civilians, including
a child, were killed. (Reuters) (ABC) suburb of Baghdad shortly before the scheduled visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi, killing two Iraqi
National Guard members and a civilian. In Latifiyah
(25 miles south of Baghdad), gunmen ambush and kill
nine Iraqi policemen who were returning from
training in Jordan
. (Reuters) (ABC), United
Kingdom to demand an end to the "illegal occupation" of
Iraq. (Reuters) (The Scotsman)
in Washington, D.C.
for the Million
Worker March, a pro-labor and anti-war
demonstration.'s most
wanted bandit, sandalwood smuggler and
elephant poacher Veerappan, is shot dead by the Special Task Force in Tamil Nadu
at 11 p.m. IST, after having evaded capture for 20
years. (Reuters) (BBC)'s main
opposition party, BJP.
He will be replaced by Lal Krishna
Advani. (BBC)
, are believed to have been beheaded by the
group Islamic Army in
Iraq. (Reuters) and Iraqi interim government officials
decline a Saudi proposal
for a Muslim peacekeeping force to be
deployed in Iraq over concerns regarding the chain of command. (NYT).
and ten other U.S. states for the 2004 U.S. presidential
election, which officially takes place November 2. (CNN)
on a proposal by President Alexander Lukashenko to permit
Lukashenko to run for a third term by amending the country's
constitution to remove term
limits. The Belarus electoral commission says the referendum
won the support of at least 75 percent of voters, but independent
elections monitors say that the voting procedures "fell
significantly short" of international standards. In Minsk
, the capital, more than 2,000 people protest
the results of the referendum. (BBC) (Reuters) says that
it is willing to negotiate with the U.K., Germany, and France regarding a suspension of its uranium enrichment activities, but that
it will never renounce its right to enrich uranium.
Iran's nuclear program is currently
under investigation by the International Atomic Energy
Agency
. (Reuters) Episcopal
Church, and by the responses of other Anglican churches to his
consecration. (BBC) (Windsor Report). Martinkus was in Iraq compiling a report
for SBS'
Dateline program. (AAP), Belarus, protests continue over
the results of Monday's
referendum, which permitted President Alexander Lukashenko to seek a third
term. At least 30 protesters are arrested, including
opposition leader Anatoly Lebedko.
Supporters say Lebedko was badly beaten by police and was refused treatment for his injuries.
(BBC)'s Supreme National Security
Council, says that he believes Iran's interests would be better
served by the election of Republican incumbent George W. Bush, rather than Democrat John Kerry, to the U.S. Presidency. (Yahoo News/AP) (Link dead as of 22:35,
14 January 2007
(UTC)), Iraq.
Ms.
Hassan holds British, Irish and Iraqi citizenship. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 22:35, 14 January 2007 (UTC)),
(AAP Australia) army compound in central Baghdad kills a U.S. contractor, while another mortar
attack, on an Iraqi National
Guard base in Mushahida, kills four
guardsmen and injures 80. Iraqi security
forces, backed by U.S. Marines, arrest 100 suspected
insurgents south of Baghdad.
Three
car bombs kill two Iraqis in Mosul.
(BBC) police charge Muslim cleric Abu Hamza
al-Masri with 16 crimes, including encouraging the murder of
non-Muslims. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 22:35, 14 January 2007 (UTC)) and German officials announce that, on Thursday,
representatives of France, the United Kingdom, and Germany will meet in Vienna
with Iranian officials to offer Iran a final chance to halt
uranium enrichment plans before
proposed U.N. sanctions are
imposed. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 22:35, 14 January 2007 (UTC)) officials
say that Myanmar
's military has removed the current prime
minister of Myanmar, General Khin Nyunt,
from office and placed him under house arrest. (BBC) war planes strike a building in Fallujah. Local sources say the strike killed a
family of six, including four children. The U.S. military, however,
denies a family was killed and issues a statement saying that
"intelligence sources indicate a known Zarqawi propagandist is passing false reports to the
media". (Reuters: 1, 2), two car bombs kill at least 8 civilians, including a child, and wound 11
U.S. soldiers. In Baghdad, an adviser to the political party of Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is killed in a drive-by shooting. (Reuters)
Prime Minister Rafiq
Hariri resigns and says he will leave the government, ending
several weeks of conflict between Hariri and the Syrian
-backed President, Émile Lahoud. Lahoud's term in
office was extended last month, allegedly as a result of pressure
from Syria; in response, the United Nations Security
Council passed a resolution condemning foreign interference in
Lebanon and demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops. (Reuters) (Daily Star [Lebanon]) (ABC)
scientist, Thomas DeMarse, announces that he has grown a
"brain" of rat neurons that can fly an airplane simulator. A "brain"
such as this could be used to study how actual brains compute
information and, potentially, as a sort of living computer. (Wired) (Discovery) (U. of FL press release) President Émile
Lahoud names staunch pro-Syrian politician Omar
Karami as Prime Minister following Rafic Hariri's resignation on October 20,
2004. Karami, Prime Minister from 1990 to 1992, was forced
to resign in 1992. (Jerusalem Post) Army
sentences Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick to eight years in prison for
sexually and physically abusing detainees at Abu
Ghraib prison
. (Reuters) airport is attacked, leaving
4 dead and 11 injured. (Reuters) interim Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi while he visits the city of Mosul, in
northern Iraq. (Reuters)
, China, a gas explosion in a coal
mine kills 62 people; 86 are still missing. (Xinhuanet) (BBC) pilot is
killed in Afghanistan when his Sikorsky
HH-60 helicopter crashes due to technical
problems. (BBC)
, falls
after a televised speech, breaking a leg and an arm.
(BBC)
Prime Minister
Göran Persson reorganizes the
Swedish government by replacing
two cabinet ministers. (Bloomberg), making it
the deadliest typhoon to hit Japan in 22
years. (BBC) (Reuters)
synchrotron opens
for atomic research in Saskatoon
, Saskatchewan
. (CBC)'s State Duma, the lower
house of parliament. The treaty will now go to the upper
house and President Vladimir Putin
for their approval. (BBC) forces attack suspected Islamic militants using
mortars and helicopters near the Afghanistan border. (Reuters) confirm that three Macedonian contract workers
kidnapped on August 21 have been
executed. (BBC) on October 19, is shown on the al Jazeera television network pleading for her
life. (BBC) and Iraqi forces
reportedly detain Sheikh Abdel-Sattar Abdel-Jabbar, a
Sunni Muslim cleric and a
leading member of the Muslim
Clerics' Association, a group which, according to members, has
played a major role in hostage negotiations
and in negotiating the recent cease-fire
in Fallujah. The U.S. military, however, says it has no
record of any Iraqi cleric being arrested in Baghdad. (Reuters) (al-Jazeera) Air
Force planes strike suspected weapons dumps in the Iraqi city of
Fallujah. Local hospital
officials say seven people were killed and three were wounded.
(Turkish Press)
. (Pacific Islands Report)'s new president, requests 20,000 African Union troops to help secure the
country. (BBC) file charges against former Chilean
leader Augusto
Pinochet for the disappearance and torture of four French citizens in the 1970s. (BBC)
west of Baghdad. A separate car bomb kills four Iraqi National Guard soldiers at a
check point in Samarra. Two die and four are injured in U.S. air strikes
on Falluja
. In Mosul, two
Turkish drivers are killed and two wounded when their
convoy is attacked. Mortars land
in central Baghdad killing two civilians. The U.S. military say
they have captured a senior official of al-Zarqawi's militant organization. (Reuters) (BBC)
6.7 measuring and six aftershocks of similar scale
occur in the Tokamachi
area. A huge landslide occurs on the
outskirts of Nagaoka. Both area is
southern and central Niigata Prefecture
in Japan.
According to Japanese officials, 68 people are killed, 4,085 are injured,
and 103,000 are rendered homeless. rejects a
European Union proposal to provide
civilian nuclear technology to Iran in exchange for Iran scrapping
its uranium enrichment program,
calling for more negotiations. A decision to refer
to matter from the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) to the United Nations Security
Council is expected on November 25,
2004. (Reuters) army
recruits, based at Kirkush, are ambushed, forced from their vehicles, laid out in
rows of twelve people, and murdered by
gunshot to the head. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claims
responsibility, describing the dead as apostates. (Reuters) (BBC), hospital officials report five civilians dead
resulting from what witnesses claim were U.S. military
airstrikes. Military officials say
a precision strike had destroyed a known enemy command and control
post. (Reuters) (BBC) airport. (Reuters) (BBC)
soldier in Kerbala
. A Turkish truck driver is killed by gunmen north of
Baghdad. (Reuters) (BBC)
successfully launches its first rocket, a VSB-30, or Brazilian Exploration Vehicle,
into space from the Alcantara rocket
launch site, after its first attempt a year earlier
failed and left 21 people, including key technicians,
dead. (BBC)
, located in the Gaza Strip, two Palestinian
militants are killed and a third wounded by
a missile fired from an Israel
Defence Force drone. (Reuters)
spokesman Joaquin
Navarro Valls says that "the Holy See
never gets involved in electoral or
political questions directly". (MSNBC)
, Canada is dissolved and elections called for November 22. (CBC) as the Leadership remains in doubt. The
Legislative Assembly failed to sit on Monday 25 October. Gaston Flosse, elected President on 22
October, attempted to enter the Presidential palace on the weekend
but was met by closed gates. (Oceania Flash) soldier and
wounds five others in western Baghdad. Hospital officials say five civilians are
killed from U.S. snipers in the western city
of Ramadi. In Kirkuk
, a roadside bomb kills an Iraqi
civilian. An Estonian
soldier is killed and five wounded in a bomb blast
in Baghdad. A mortar lands on
a Iraqi National Guard
checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi civilian.
In
Mosul, a car bomb
kills a tribal leader and two civilians. (Reuters) (BBC) television news reports
that Yasser Arafat is granted
permission to go to hospital due to
suffering from gall stones and had an intestinal infection.
Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erekat says "It is unfounded that President
Arafat requested to go to a Ramallah
hospital" and "He is recuperating from an acute
case of the flu". (Reuters) following "ceaseless mortar attacks" on neighboring Israeli settlements. (Reuters) announces that two weeks ago, the Iraqi government
informed the agency that about 380 tons (345,000
kg) of powerful explosives, potentially usable in detonators for
nuclear bomb, apparently disappeared
from the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility, a site about 30 miles south of
Baghdad, sometime shortly before or after Saddam Hussein's government fell. The
Iraqi director of planning attributed the disappearance to "the
theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of
security", although other sources indicate the explosives could
have been removed by the Hussein regime itself. (Reuters: 1, 2) (CNN : 1, 2)
, including mayor Steve
Christian, are convicted of sexual offences involving women and girls as young as
12. The island has a population of 47, mainly descendants of
the Bounty
crew. (MSNBC) (ABC)
caused the November, 2001, crash in New York
City
that claimed the lives of 265 people, the staff of
the U.S. National Transportation
Safety Board said. (Globe and Mail)
, Cuba, Myanmar, Turkmenistan
, Eritrea
, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam
, Nepal
, Saudi
Arabia, and Iran, while the
ten highest were Denmark, Finland
, Iceland
, Ireland, the Netherlands
, Norway
, Slovakia
, Switzerland
, New
Zealand
, and Latvia
. (BBC News) (RSF report)
approves Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's plan to
withdraw 21 settlements from the Gaza Strip and 4 from the West Bank by next year. Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and three other
cabinet ministers from Sharon's ruling Likud
government threaten to resign if a referendum over the plan will not be held.
(Reuters) (Guardian). (BBC) (Reuters) (USA Today) shuts down dozens of illegal or unsanitary
blood collection stations as part of its efforts to curb the spread
of AIDS
in the country. (VOA)'s appointed
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi tells the interim national council
that yesterday's killing of 49 unarmed army recruits "was the
outcome of major neglect by some parts of the multinational
(forces)." (Reuters). Local residents say that the houses
destroyed were empty for over a month and hospital staff report no
casualties. (CNN) (Reuters) police following the dispersal of a violent
demonstration on October 25 in the restive Muslim-majority southern region of the
country. The deaths appeared to have occurred during a five
hour trip in closed trucks to a detention facility. (Reuters) (BBC) Air Force
commissions its first F-22 Raptor
jet, the world's most expensive
fighter aircraft. The Air
Force has ordered 277 of the planes. (BBC) island of Flores
of the skeleton of a previously unknown species
of extinct human, named Homo floresiensis. Unusually,
the creature, while quite different from modern humans — as an
adult, it stood only 3 feet (90 cm) tall —
dates from only 18,000 years ago, disproving the accepted theory
that modern humans became the sole human species 160,000 years ago.
(AP) citizens, who were detained at the U.S. military installation in Guantanamo Bay for almost three years, sue the
U.S. government for £5.5 million ($10 million) each, alleging
torture and other human rights violations. The principal
defendants are Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, General Richard
Myers. (BBC) policemen are charged with
negligence over the Beslan
school hostage crisis; more than 350 people, about half of whom
were children, died in that event. (Reuters) forces near the border with Afghanistan. (Reuters): Slobodan
Milošević's defense team asks for a withdrawal, saying
Milošević refuses to cooperate. (Reuters) campaign headquarters containing a list of
1,886 names and addresses of voters in largely
African-American and Democratic areas of Jacksonville
, Florida. Democratic Party officials
allege that the document is a "caging
list" that the Bush campaign intends to use to issue mass
challenges to African-American voters, in violation of federal law.
(BBC)
over the approval of the new European
Commission has been delayed, after incoming president
José Manuel Barroso asks
for more time to reshuffle his team. (EUobserver) (BBC)
., Indulis Emsis, the
first Green Party prime minister steps down when the country's
minority coalition government
dissolves after the parliament rejects its
2005 budget. (CNN) Defense
Department
official John
A. Shaw, alleges
that Russian special forces moved weapons, explosives, and
related materials out of Iraq and into
Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iran, shortly
before the U.S. invasion of
Iraq in March 2003. Russia denies the allegation,
calling the claims "absurd". U.S. officials later say they cannot
corroborate the claim, but are investigating. (Washington Times) (VOA) (Interfax)
-based company, Allerca,
announced that within three years it will be able to produce a
hypoallergenic cat
using genetic
modification. At the same time, the company denied that
it will be able to do the same for dogs, because
whereas cats have a single gene that produces
the allergenic protein, dogs have many allergenic proteins
controlled by multiple genes. (San Jose Mercury News) (New Scientist)
, Florida report that over 50,000 absentee ballot for next Tuesday's U.S. presidential election
are missing. Officials mailed 60,000 absentee ballots
earlier this month, but only 2,000 were delivered. (BBC) presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry
accuse each other regarding Monday's announcement by the International Atomic Energy
Agency that 380 tons (345,000 kg) of explosives are missing
from the Al Qa'qaa industrial facility in
Iraq. (Japan Today)'s Listvyazhnaya
mine, which is located in Siberia
near the border with Mongolia, kills 13 people and injures 23.
(Reuters)
, Maine
. (CNN) between troops from the autonomous Somaliland
and Puntland
macro-regions. So far, fighting in the
disputed region has left over a hundred dead. (BBC), heads of state and government from the countries
of the European Union sign the
treaty
establishing a constitution for Europe. The treaty is
still subject to ratification by the member nations. (BBC), France for medical treatment at Percy military hospital
which specializes in blood disorders and cancer. Ahmed Qurei will manage the daily affairs of the
Palestinian Authority and
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestine Liberation
Organization. (Reuters), in the wake of clashes between minority
Muslim protesters and Thai soldiers in which
about 80 protesters were suffocated while being transported to
detention camps. (INQ7.net) medical journal the Lancet, estimates that an additional 100,000
civilian deaths have occurred since the
2003 invasion of Iraq.
However, the study has a significant margin of error — the actual
figure predicted by the study is anywhere from 8,000 to 194,000
excess deaths. (The Lancet) (Lancet report [pdf]) (BBC) (Slate)
St. Paul
, Minnesota
television crew embedded with U.S.
101st Airborne Division
troops on April 18, 2003, nine days after Hussein's fall. The videotape shows
the sealed explosives containers at Al
Qaqaa, clearly displaying the ammunition cache of explosives
and other weapons supplies, sealed with the International Atomic Energy
Agency seals which were reported by the International
Atomic Energy Agency 18 months ago. (NY Times), acknowledging his responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks, threatening
further action against the U.S., and criticizing U.S.
President George W. Bush. He said that the security of the
American people depended neither on Mr. Bush nor on John Kerry, but on US policy. (Reuters) (BBC)
: Strike of the buses, metros and tramways of
the Brussels
public transport company STIB/MIVB. Buses of De Lijn however worked. (Expatica.com) (Xinhua).
Winners
were Ukraine
(men) and China (women). Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi indicates that he will
likely withdraw the controversial nomination of Rocco Buttiglione to the European
Union Commission which caused deadlock in the European
Parliament this week. (BBC)
. (Reuters UK), New
Hampshire
and
Florida. (CNN)
is re-erected at the former Checkpoint Charlie
as a memorial to the 1,065 people who were
killed trying to escape from East Germany
. (BBC) are shown on a video issued by their
captors. (BBC) civilians. (BBC)
begins deploying a contingent of 237 troops to
Darfur, Sudan, as part of an African
Union mission to bring stability to the troubled region.
Sixty-five soldiers have been sent this weekend; the rest will be
deployed as the week progresses. Rwanda already had some troops in
Darfur. (CNN) Shia workers are killed and eight wounded in a rocket
attack on a hotel in the predominantly Sunni
city of Tikrit
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