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Date: May 17 |
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- At least 48 people have been killed following several bombs across the states of Nagaland and Assam in north-east India. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) are the principal suspects at the moment, but no confirmation has yet been given. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3710318.stm) (Hindustan Times) (http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1038855,0015002000000000.htm)
- Arab-Israeli conflict:
- Yassir Arafat has declared a state of emergency in the Gaza Strip and has called for international aid following Israel's raid into the worlds most densely populated area, the Jabaliya Refugee camp. At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops there today. (News 24, S. Africa) (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1598899,00.html)(Tehran Times) (http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/3/2004&Cat=4&Num=019)
- Four Palestinian militants, members of Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, cut through the fence near Karni crossing in the early morning and are killed by IDF Combat Engineering force and special unit. The militants were attempting to infiltrate Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the north-west Negev. (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483982.html) (Maariv - NRG) (http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/790/922.html)
- The U.S. government issues a statement urging Israel to show restraint, but accepting Israel's need to defend itself, in its current raid into the Gaza Strip. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3708918.stm)
- Hamas declares that rocket attacks will continue on Israeli settlements, towns and cities in spite of the current raid which Israel maintains is to stop such attacks. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3709948.stm)
- The Israeli government declares its intention to secure a five mile "buffer zone" within the Gaza Strip, supposedly to prevent Hamas rocket attacks. (The Telegraph) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/02/wmid02.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/02/ixworld.html)
- Ichiro Suzuki, a Japanese baseball star now playing for Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners, breaks the 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) (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/baseball/mlb/10/01/bc.bba.suzuki.hitsrecor.ap/)
- Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington awakens, with a minor eruption of steam, smoke, and ash. (Fox News) (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134186,00.html) (CNN) (http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/10/01/mount.st.helens/index.html)
- The government of Denmark 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) (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1096625295280&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154)
- U.S. presidential debates: "Instant-response" polls of viewers of last night's U.S. presidential debate show that a majority of viewers thought the challenger, John Kerry, won the contest. (The Guardian) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1317491,00.html) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3703756.stm)(Indianapolis Star) (http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/182977-9853-010.html) (CBS) (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/01/opinion/polls/main646712.shtml)
- At least 19 people are killed in an explosion — suspected to be a suicide bombing — at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Sialkot (located near the border of Indian-controlled Kashmir). The attack follows the killing of a leading Sunni cleric. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3706506.stm)
- Irish presidential election, 2004: Mary McAleese is appointed to a second seven-year term as President of Ireland, 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 Sen T. O'Kelly in 1952 and President Patrick Hillery in 1983. (Irish Examiner) (http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/2004/10/01/story169064.html) (RTÉ) (http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1001/president.html)
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- A large number of Israeli troops, backed by about 100 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) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3706224.stm) (The Guardian) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1318164,00.html)
- The Israeli Defence Forces releases UAV footage (http://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/7/34147.wmv) documenting Palestinian militants loading rockets into a vehicle that is or resembles a UN van. Israel says it will file a complaint against the UN in that matter and demand the Peter Hamsen, UNRWA's head, be fired. (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/483950.html)
- Conflict in Iraq:
- U.S. 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) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3705890.stm) (Canda.com News) (http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=2a60bd15-45c2-491e-b761-cdaf957acf6a) (The Independent) (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=567693)
- U.S. 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) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6387832) (The Australian) (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10941391%255E1702,00.html)
- Same-sex marriage debates: The cabinet of Spanish Prime Minister Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero approves a bill to legalize same-sex marriage; the government believes that the bill will pass the full parliament. (CNN) (http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/01/spain.gays/) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3706414.stm)
- A by-election for the Hartlepool constituency of the UK parliament caused by the resignation of Peter Mandelson who takes up a role in the European Union results in a win for Labour (12752), with the Liberal Democrats second (10719). The Conservative Party (3044) is pushed into fourth place by the UK Independence Party (3193). The turnout is 46%. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk_politics/3706100.stm)
- Incumbent president George W. Bush and challenger Senator John F. Kerry meet at the University of Miami, Florida in the first of three presidential debates in the run-up to the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Nielsen Media Research later reports 62.5 million people watched the debate. (Transcript) (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/debate.main/index.html) (MSNBC) (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6123725/) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3703756.stm)
- Same-sex marriage in the United States: The proposed Federal Marriage Amendment fails to pass the United States House of Representatives, with a vote of 227–186 on House Joint Resolution 106. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6383639)
- The office of British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces he will undergo "routine heart surgery" tomorrow to correct an irregular heartbeat. (Bloomberg) (http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a3TCPSM97gU4&refer=uk)
- Conflict in Iraq
- At least three people are killed by U.S. air raids on the insurgent held city of Fallujah. Locals say civilians are among the dead, but the U.S. maintains they struck a safe house of the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Just outside Baghdad, a rocket fired at a US military support base killed one coalition soldier. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3702710.stm)
- At least 41 people are killed in a multiple bomb attack on a US military convoy traveling through Baghdad, close to a water treatment plant. At least 34 of them were children. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3702710.stm)
- Three southern provinces (Basra, Missan and Dhiqar), which together control 80 percent of Iraq's proven oil reserves, are considering plans to set up an autonomous region. (Financial Times) (http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3d40c9a2-1242-11d9-863e-00000e2511c8.html)
- The Russian cabinet recommends ratification of the Kyoto Treaty against global warming, which would bring the accord into force; the measure will be debated in Parliament, which has final say. (CBS) (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/30/tech/main646485.shtml) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=593883§ion=news) (Itar-Tass) (http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1300805&PageNum=0)
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Israel launches a major offensive into the Jabaliya refugee camp killing at least 23 gunmen and civilians. Earlier this morning, a column of Israeli tanks moved into the center of the camp, followed by bulldozers. At least three Palestinian civilians have been killed thus far. Homes are being demolished, forcing people to flee. 72 Palestinians are known to have been wounded, some losing limbs. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3702902.stm) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6374094)
- Two Palestinians are killed by Israeli troops returning fire after an Israeli soldier was killed at an observation post in the northern Gaza strip. The troops have been engaged in that part of the northern Gaza Strip since yesterday, September 29. (AP) (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/9797477.htm?1c)
- Two Israelis, including a civilian, are killed in an ambush close to Gaza. The Palestinian gunman was also killed. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3702902.stm)
- The People's Republic of China accuses Taiwanese Premier Yu Shyi-kun of "clamoring for war" after he said Taiwan would defend itself by firing missiles at Shanghai in the event of an attack of Taipei or Kaohsiung by the PRC. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3699460.stm) (VOA) (http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=47BF3C9C-A50E-4453-91F5BB6D88376AAE&title=China%20Accuses%20Taiwan%20of%20Provoking%20War%20with%20Missile%20Threat&catOID=45C9C78B-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Asia%20Pacific)
- Forty-three North Koreans, reportedly seeking asylum, use ladders to scale the walls of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, China. (Globe and Mail) (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040929.wemba0929/BNStory/International/)
- U.S. presidential campaign: Former Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's son John Eisenhower endorses Democrat John Kerry's presidential bid. (The Union Leader) (http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=44657)
- Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, an experimental spaceplane, makes the first competitive flight for the Ansari X Prize. Although a roll problem caused the mission to be aborted early, SpaceShipOne nonetheless reached an estimated 109.1 km (358,000 feet), which qualifies as a spaceflight. (Space.com) (http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/xprize_success_040929.html) (New Scientist) (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996463)
- Conflict in Iraq
- Kenneth Bigley, a British hostage held in Iraq, appears alive in a video broadcast by Al Jazeera. Seen in a cage wearing an orange jumpsuit, Bigley says "Tony Blair is lying. He doesn't care about me". (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3699998.stm)
- Reports that ransom was paid to secure yesterday's release of two Italian aid workers raise fears that the burgeoning hostage crises will worsen. Gustavo Selva, an Italian lawmaker, states that "The sum ($1 million) is probably correct". To date about 130 foreigners have been taken hostage. About 30 of these have been killed. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6364046)
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Five masked men armed with bats and chains attack Chris Brown and Kim Lamberty, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams outside the Israeli settlement of Ma'on in Hebron while the volunteers were escorting Palestinian children to school. CPT alleges the assaults are part of an ongoing pattern of intimidation by Israeli Settlers. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3701036.stm) (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/483300.html) (Al Jazeera) (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AE40E95F-C2E1-4401-8463-B83DA4B9391A.htm)
- Five Palestinians, including Hamas member Tawfik Ali Charafi, are killed during Israeli raids in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and Nablus in the West Bank. The Israeli government claims the troops entered in retaliation for at least four rockets being fired at the Israeli town of Sderot on September 28. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3699224.stm) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6362400) (Al Jazeera) (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/07150357-0246-4366-9FBB-E9CE0D2A6CF3.htm) (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483032.html)
- Two Israeli children, aged 3 and 5, are killed after a Qassam rocket attack from Palestinian terrorists on the town of Sderot. Hamas claimed the attack was launched in retaliation for the Israeli raid of the Jabaliya refugee camp, which left four Palestinians dead. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3699224.stm) (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483283.html)
- Two Palestinian teenagers are killed and power Supplies are knocked out after an Israeli raid on the Jabaliya refugee camp. The raid was launched in retaliation for the Rocket attacks on the town of Sderot which left two children dead. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3699224.stm)
- Two men, Rahim al-Nashiri and Jamal Mohammed al-Bedawi, who were found guilty of organizing the October 12, 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, are sentenced to death by a court in Yemen. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3699426.stm)
- The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers, or about four times the distance from Earth to the Moon) of Earth. Toutatis is the largest known asteroid to pass this close to Earth. (Space.com) (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/toutatis_flyby_040927.html)
- The 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece closes. China, Great Britain and Canada have won the most gold medals. (Athens2004.com) (http://www.athens2004.com/en/ParalympicGamesClosingCeremony)
- North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon announces at the UN General Assembly that it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons as a deterrent against the U.S. nuclear threat. Six-nation talks on the nuclear issue, which were due to have resumed before October, have been suspended. Analysts believe North Korea has ruled out further talks until after the U.S. presidential election in November. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3696092.stm)
- Republic of China foreign minister Mark Chen calls Singapore "the size of a piece of snot" after Singaporean foreign minister George Yeo declared opposition to Taiwan independence. He later apologized for his "improper wording". (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3697244.stm) (China Post) (http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=22940)
- U.S. President George W. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Crawford, Texas Lone Star Iconoclast, endorses Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The editorial column asked Texan voters "not to rate the candidate by his hometown . . . but instead by where he intends to take the country." In the last election, the paper endorsed Bush. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6356211) (Lone Star Iconoclast) (http://news.iconoclast-texas.com/web/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm)
- Giovanni di Stefano, the lawyer of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, tells the Danish newspaper B.T. that Hussein plans to run as a candidate in the Iraqi elections scheduled for January 2005. A recent Gallup poll indicated that 42 percent of the Iraqi people want their former leader back. (Zaman, Turkey) (http://www.zaman.org/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20040921&hn=12424)
- Health officials in Thailand report that they have identified a likely case of human to human transmission of the H5N1 strain of avian flu, although the World Health Organization says the transmission occurred only after prolonged contact between individuals. A more easily transmitted virus could potentially cause a worldwide flu pandemic on the level of the 1918 Spanish flu. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=6357648§ion=news)
- Conflict in Iraq:
- In Baghdad, two Italian aid workers, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta are released, three weeks after they were taken hostage, along with two Iraqis who had been captured with them. In a separate incident, four Egyptian workers are also released. (The Scotsman) (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3557666).
- Two British soldiers are killed in an ambush near the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3696300.stm)
- The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush says that it had considered secretly supporting pro-U.S. candidates in the upcoming elections in Iraq, but has now decided against the plan. (TIME) (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041004-702122,00.html) (Houston Chronicle) (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2815833)
- U.S. military planes bomb a building in the insurgent-held city of Fallujah, in what the U.S. describes as a raid against terrorists linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Local doctors say at least three civilians were killed, but the U.S. says only "Zarqawi operatives" died. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3695858.stm)
- Arab-Israeli conflict:
- In the Gaza Strip, CNN producer Riad Abu Ali, an Israeli citizen, is released by his captors one day after he was abducted from his car by Palestinian militants. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=televisionNews&storyID=6355380)
- Israeli soldiers kill a mentally ill Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Jenin, under disputed circumstances. The Israelis saying they shot his legs, but television pictures showing his chest was shot.(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3696626.stm)
- The price of U.S. light crude briefly exceeds the price of USD 50/barrel, the highest since 1983. Analysts attribute the increase largely to concerns over the disruption of oil production in Nigeria; conflicts in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and the effects of Hurricane Ivan are also cited. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3695820.stm)
- A Nigerian militant group threatens "all-out war" against foreign companies in the Niger River delta region if they do not leave by October. The European oil company Royal Dutch/Shell has already evacuated 254 non-essential workers from the area. (BBC: 1 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3688582.stm), 2 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3695990.stm))
- A strong earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale, strikes central California, near Parkfield. The effects are felt as far away as Sacramento and Santa Ana. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/28/california.quake.ap/index.html)
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