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Tue 05 Oct, 2004 5:06 am

icurite
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October 1

1: An attack by US and Iraqi military in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra has killed up to 100 and wounded 100, including both militants and civilians, local authorities have reported. The US claims to have killed 100 militants and captured several dozen others. Other fighting leads to 12 deaths in Sadr City and 7 in Fallujah.

2: Israeli military forces move into Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip, killing five Palestinians in rocket attacks. Footage of apparent UN vans being used by Palestinian militants has angered Israel.

3: An estimated 19 have died in a suicide attack in a Shia mosque in Sialkot, Pakistan.

4: Mary McAleese wins the Irish Presidential Election to take another term at office, while John Kerry appears to have won the Presidential Debate in the United States.

5: A Japanese player in the American Major League Baseball competition, Ichiro Suzuki, has broken George Sisler's 84-year-old US record of hits in a season.

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Tue 05 Oct, 2004 5:07 am

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October 2

1: Bombings in north-eastern India have killed 48. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland are being blamed for attacks in the states of Nagaland and Assam.

2: Israeli forces have killed four in the Gaza Strip near the Karni border, while Hamas threatens to continue rocket attacks on Israeli citizens. The US has asked Israel to use less force. A 9 km buffer zone is being established by Israeli in the Gaza Strip as Yasser Arafat asks for aid from other countries.

3: Riots by youths in Pakistan include arsen attacks on the police station and mayor's house in Sialkot. The riots are in anger of the mosque bombing.

4: The United States Presidential Elections are next month, with Bush attacking Kerry's policies and Kerry pointing our Bush's high-cost military activities. The support Bush lost in the recent debate is unknown, but he still has a lead over his competitor.

5: American photograph magazine LIFE has been relaunched, with actress Sara Jessica Parker fronting the first copy of the new-look magazine.

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Tue 05 Oct, 2004 5:07 am

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October 3

1: The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 60, but Israel has refused to stop until Hamas ends rocket attacks, despite UN and US requests.

2: The suspected leader of separatist group ETA has been arrested by French and Spanish officials, as well as between 16 and 20 other group members.

3: Bird flu has cost the life of one person in Thailand, rising the death toll from the virus to 11.

4: The Slavenian election has been won by the Slovenian Democrats and leader Janez Jansa hopes to better-equip the country for UN and Nato memebership.

5: Five individuals have been beautified in a ceremony by Pope John Paul II, including Anne Catherine Emmerick, who helped inspire Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. The Pope has made 1340 beatifications, which is more than any pope in history.

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Tue 05 Oct, 2004 5:08 am

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October 4

1: Car bomb attacks have killed over 26 and left over 100 injured in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Mosul, while Fallujah rebels are attacked by the air from the air and two US soldiers die in Baghdad.

2: A day of violence in and around the Gaza Strip has seen continuing attacks by Palestinian militants and Israeli military forces, killing 6 militants and 3 other Palestinians. A 15-year-old girl is among them, rising the Palestinian death toll to 63. A rocket attack on Sderot in Israel has injured another while the UN investigates whether their ambulances are being used by Palestinian terrorists.

3: SpaceShipOne has reached 112.2 km and won the X Prize competition in the United States. Flight 17P is the second in two weeks which succeeded in taking a pilot to space.

4: US Presidential candidate Kerry today spoke of the importance of stem-cell research and criticized Bush's policies on the topic. The elections are still more than four weeks away but in many states voters have already voted and requests for voter IDs has become an issue. Meanwhile Vice-President Candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards are preparing for their debate.

5: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly given to American scientists Richard Axel and Linda Buck for their medical discoveries about human smell.

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Tue 05 Oct, 2004 5:08 am

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12 January

1: Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi admits that not all of the country will be able to vote in the coming elections. "There are some pockets that will not participate in the election, but they are not large," Allawi said. Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has ordered all Shiites to vote in the election. As the election nears, the United States claims there is a threat of Sunni uprising.

2: Intelligence officials in the United States have confirmed that their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ended in December. White House spokesperson Scott McClellan said that the CIA Iraq Survey Group now has their "a lot of their mission is focused elsewhere."

3: The search for survivors and bodies continues after Monday's mudslide in La Conchita, California. Despite the threat of mudslides, local resident Jack Falk told ABC News he would "desire to live nowhere else in the country." Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has promised aid to the help the community.

4: The United States and several other wealthy nations have offered to freeze debt repayments from countries affected by the South-Asian tsunami, including Indonesia which owes US$48 billion to creditor nations. Rebel's in Indonesia's Aceh province have offered another cease-fire to allow recovery efforts in the province to continue. In Banda Aceh, where aid workers are based, the city's poorer residents are the hardest hit by the disaster. So far at least US$5.5 has been offered in aid and an Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami warning system should be established by June 2006.

5: In the British version of reality series Big Brother, author Germaine Greer has quit, saying she had regrets at appearing in the show in the first place. Leaving in tears, she says she felt humiliated by being in what she called a "fascist prison" and will contribute to an Australian rainforest project in other ways.

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Thu 13 Jan, 2005 2:18 am

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13 January

1: Five dead and another ten were wounded after a Palestinian suicide bombing by Fatah militants at the Kami crossing point in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian terrorists threw mortar shells at ambulances and Israeli forces returned fire. Two Palestinians were killed by Israelis in the Gaza Strip, including a man driving a pregnant woman to hospital who troops suspected was a militant. Palestinian violence has increased despite President Mahmoud Abbas calling an end to the violence.

2: Sheikh Mahmoud al-Madaini, an aide to Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Sistani, has been assassinated near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad after Wednesday evening prayers. His son and four bodyguards were also killed in the incident, which is one of a series of recent attacks linked to Sunni insurgents who oppose the coming Iraqi elections.

3: Colombian Defence Minister Jorge Alberto Uribe has finally admitted the government employed a bounty hunter to capture rebel leader Rodrigo Granda from Venezuelam after weeks of denial. Vice President Francisco Santos has now publicly offered rewards to bounty hunters to capture other rebels.

4: Israel has joined Jews in Britain and around the world to criticize Britain's Prince Harry for wearing a NAZI uniform to a fancy dress party. The Board of Deputies of British Jews says Prince Harry's choice of costume "was clearly in bad taste, especially in the run-up to holocaust memorial day.’’ The British royal family has issued an apology to all those offended.

5: The U.S. Federal Government has revamped the food pyramid in an attempt to stop growing obesity rates. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson says the new government food guidelines are simply common sense. The guidelines include suggestions to limiting sugars, fats, salts and sweeteners and eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Thu 13 Jan, 2005 11:20 pm

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