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As the presidential election in the United States nears, John Kerry accepted his Democratic nomination, using his military experience in the Vietnam War to attract voters unhappy with the policies of current US President George Bush. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, a failed assination attempt has been directed on nominated Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, killing four others. Arab countries have demonstrated opposition to sanctions against Sudan for the attrocities of militias in the Durfur region, but a carefully-worded revised copy of a US-drafted resolution to the conflict, which threatened economic consequences, was released Friday by the UN. The President of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, has been open to government auditors following claims of corruption.

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Sat 31 Jul, 2004 12:18 am

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Saturday July 31

An Iraqi extremist group has threatened to behead two Turkish drivers unless their employer, a Turkish business called Kahramanli, removed their operations from Iraq within 48 hours. NATO has agreed to train the security forces in the country, but meanwhile Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, leader of Libya, has requested that Arab countries do not send forces into Iraq while occupation forces of the coalition remain. An alleged plot by Libya for the assisination of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah has been revealed by US-based Muslim activist Abdurahman Alamoudi, while on trial for illegal dealings with Libya. In Belgium the nation is mourning the loss of 16 lives in an explosion of a gas pipeline that also injured another 120.

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Sat 31 Jul, 2004 9:10 pm

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Sunday August 1

Washington's World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the New York Stock Exchange and New York companies have all been placed on a level of high security alert by the government of the United States after intelligence suggested a chance of a terrorist attack by extremist group al Qaeda. In Iraq a dozen people have been killed in car bomb attacks on Christian churches and another ten have died in overnight fighting in Falluja. Sudan has rejected the UN sanction deadline, instead agreeing to an 90-day programme previously proposed by the UN. In Britain's Independent newspaper, the government body English Heritage has accused Hollywood of a poor portrayal of the country's history, with Saving Private Ryan being among those he claimed were 'prime offenders'. Click here to view the article.

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Sun 01 Aug, 2004 9:36 pm

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Monday August 2

United States President George W. Bush has proposed the formation of a national counterterrorism center as the presidential election nears. His opponent, John Kerry, only gained limited support following his speech in Boston during the Democratic Convention, according to a poll by ABC News and Washington Post. The United States have announced plans to move 3,600 troops from South Korea to Iraq, but the trucker's association of Turkey refuses to deliver goods to US forces following the killing of a Turk by Iraqi insurgents. Left-wing Jorge Hank Rhon has won the Tijuana mayoral election in Mexico. The Indian Army reports facing teenage militants in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Tue 03 Aug, 2004 5:12 am

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Tuesday August 3

Chief Warrant Officer Paul Arthur, the lead criminal investigator in the case of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, told a military court that the soldiers abused the prisoners for fun. Meanwhile, the daugther of Saddam Hussein is willing to employ an American lawyer to make sure her father's trial is fair. In the eastern Pakistani province of Punjab two notable al-Qaida terrorists have been arrested, both of African origin. In the United States the Messenger spacecraft was launched today by NASA and should reach the planet of Mercury by 2011, while New York's Statue of Liberty opens to the public for the first time since the World Trade Center attacks on September 11 of 2001.

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Wed 04 Aug, 2004 3:04 am

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Wednesday August 4

A bomb has exploded near Athens just nine days out from the 2004 Summer Olympics, raising fears of terrorism during the event. Meanwhile, FBI intelligence suggests that Mumbai, Delhi or Bangalore in India could be the target of terrorism attacks. India is also the victim of a monsoon that has so far caused the loss of over 1000 lives. O'Hare Airport in United States city of Chicago have been told commercial flights may be banned at the airport because of the delays being caused in flights around the country.

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Thu 05 Aug, 2004 4:44 am

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Thursday August 5

A dozen Iraqis and one American soldier were killed in the Iraqi city of Najaf as fighting broke out between United States forces and a Shiite militia. Meanwhile, the more than one million people that were forced to flee their homes because of Arab militias and serious droughts in the Sudanese region of Darfur are being assisted by some aid from the United Nations and relief organizations. In the United States two men involved in a New York mosque have been arrested for attempting to launder money made from the sale of a shoulder-fired missile.

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Fri 06 Aug, 2004 11:26 am

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Friday August 6

Faris Ahmed Jamaan al-Showeel al-Zahrani, a suspected terrorist, has been arrested by Saudi authorities, while two Afghani men detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay have denied that they were enemy fighters. In the middle east Israel has opened the Gaza Border after three weeks, a transport company in Kuwait have announced their willingness to pay ransom money to have hostages released and radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has called for a truce in Iraq following fighting between his militia and United States military forces. Today also saw police in a Northern Ireland city of Londonderry attacked with petrol bombs.

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Sun 08 Aug, 2004 12:15 am

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Saturday August 7

Flooding in Bangladesh and India have lead to over 19,000 fatalities, with sixty percent of Bangladesh underwater and many in desperate need of aid. The government of Iraq has stopped Arab cable network Al Jazeera from operating in the country because it was thought the network's news coverage encouraged violence. English soccer football coach Sven-Goran Eriksson is wanting his job back, while in horse racing The Rest of the World defeated Great Britain and Ireland in the Shergar Cup. As the Olympics nears, 400 meters hurdle champion Jana Pittman may be forced to withdrawal after an injury.

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Sun 08 Aug, 2004 7:01 am

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Sunday August 8

Iran and North Korea have continued to quickly develop their nuclear weapon capapbilities, despite diplomatic efforts, say intelligence experts in the United States. In the Middle East Karbala's Iranian Consul has been taken hostage by Iraqi militants and at the Arab League sumitt in Egypt, Sudan is trying to discourage United Nations sanctions threatened after conflict in Darfur. In finance the week ended with international oil prices increasing dramatically and in several cases breaking 10-year records.

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Mon 09 Aug, 2004 4:07 am

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Monday August 9

Fears of attack from Shiite militia has halted pumping at Northern Iraqi oil fields, rising already high world oil prices, while the militia continue fierce fighting with forces of the United States military. Four lives have been claimed at a Mihama non-reactive nuclear plant in central Japan, which is the first fatal incident since September 1999 in Tokyo but one of a series of nuclear accidents in recent times. In the South African capital city Cape Town, 15000 people have been left homeless as a result of heavy rain, while in Australia the resignation of Australia's Governor of Tasmania yesterday has followed almost a year of poor performance and controversial breaches of policy.

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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 4:41 am

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Tuesday August 10

Two people are dead and at least another nine injured in Turkey following bomb explosions at two hotels and a gas plant in Istanbul, reported by the city's chief of police Celalettin Cerrah to be a terrorist attack, although full details are uncertain. The supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr have stopped traffic and attacked police stations, with conflict continuing to raise world oil prices. Libya is offering up to $35 million to 1986's Berlin nightclub bombing victims. The United States is refusing an al-Qaeda member from testifying at the trial of September 11 2001 terrorist suspect Moroccan Mounir al-Motassadek and the country's president, George W. Bush, has nominated Porter J. Goss for the job of CIA Director.

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Wed 11 Aug, 2004 4:55 am

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Wednesday August 11

After a relay of 26 countries the Olympic Flame reached 2004 Summer Olympics hosting country Greece with the Olympic Opening Ceremony being held on Friday. In the trial of Mounir el-Motassadeq, a German court were told by captured Al Qaeda leaders that the man played no part in the planning of the September 11 2004 terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, United States military forces in Iraq are preparing for a major battle with the Shiite militia. The United Kingdom is the first European country to allow scientists to clone the embryos of humans.

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Thu 12 Aug, 2004 5:47 am

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Thursday August 12

Forces of the United States and Iraqi governments have surrounded the Imam Ali Shrine where Moqtada Sadr's radical Shiite militia have baricaded themselves. The Supreme Court of India ordered the country's first execution in 15 year when it sentenced Dhananjoy Chatterjee to death by hanging in Calcutta on August 14. José Durão Barroso, the President of the European Union, has allocated new portfolios to the new European Commission he has formed.

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Fri 13 Aug, 2004 5:28 am

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Friday August 13

Hurricane Charley has taken four lives in Jamaica and Cuba and another in Florida, causing 15m-high waves as it reached Florida's west coast. Charley developed into a Category 4 with wind gusts of 145 mph. It moved south of the expected path, never reaching the heavily-populated Tampa and St. Petersburg, but instead passing through the Orange and Lee Countys. Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr has been reportedly injured in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf following another day's fighting, while in Basra freelance journalist James Brandon, who works for the British Sunday Telegraph newspaper, was held hostage and threatened with death until he was released under the request of al Sadr. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games in the Greek capital of Athens began officially as the national teams of 202 countries paraded in an emotional opening ceremony.

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