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Europe this year experienced its hottest summer for at least 500 years, providing further evidence of man-made global warming, Swiss university researchers said. During the crushing heat wave between June and August this year, which triggered several thou
World | September 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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The US State Department's electronic system for checking every visa applicant for terrorist or criminal history failed worldwide for several hours late Tuesday because of a computer virus, leaving the US government briefly unable to issue visas. The virus
World | September 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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MSN are closing all their chatrooms in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and most of Asia from 14 October, and changing how others are operated globally. "As a responsible leader we feel it necessary to make these changes because online chat services
World | September 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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US President George Bush is set to continue his attempts at the United Nations to win support for a resolution authorising an expanded international force in Iraq. On the sidelines of Wednesday's UN General Assembly in New York, Bush is due to meet a numb
World | September 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been indicted in Serbia with ordering the murder and attempted murder of two key political opponents, the BBC reported. The charges were announced by a special prosecutor for the government in Belgrade and
World | September 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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The East Coast's recovery from Isabel was dealt a setback Tuesday by another round of storms that caused renewed flooding, flattened trees that had withstood the hurricane and knocked out power to thousands of customers, some for the second time. Severe s
World | September 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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A power blackout brought the Danish capital Copenhagen and parts of southern Sweden to a standstill. About 4 million people were without power for almost two hours after storms hit a transmission line separating the two countries.
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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US President Bush challenged the United Nations to support his plan for steady transition to democratic rule in Iraq but made clear US would follow a timetable "neither hurried nor delayed by the wishes of other parties." This process must unfold accordin
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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With an appeals court expected to decide Tuesday morning whether to lift a delay of California's recall election, the GOP congressman who bankrolled the effort urged one of the two leading Republicans to drop out. Rep.
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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Armed men have taken hostages at a hospital in the southern Saudi province of Jizan, reports say. Local residents reported hearing sporadic gunfire around the building.
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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US President Bushwill address the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to push his plan for steady transition to democratic rule in Iraq. Only in that way, Bush says, will Iraq get a chance to leap from deposed President Saddam Hussein's despotic go
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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US aircraft fired six missiles into a farm north of Fallujah, killing three men and wounding three others. The US military said its forces were pursuing guerrillas who attacked soldiers and that it knew of only one person killed.
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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The ecologist organization Greenpeace said that the Austrian versions of well-known toothpastes and baby creams contain preservatives that can cause skin rashes and make bacteria resistant to medicine. Greenpeace chemist Herwig Schuster called on the auth
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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Fossils found in a bear cave in Romania are the oldest specimens yet found of modern humans in Europe, scientists said Tuesday. One of the items -- a male jawbone -- has been dated to be between 34,000 and 36,000 years old.
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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An Iraqi policeman was killed and 19 people were wounded as a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint outside U.N.
World | September 23, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 drama in New York told US officials it took five years to arrange the attacks and that a wave of suicide attacks was supposed to follow, reports said. Mohammed also claimed that the hijacking te
World | September 22, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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France will not veto a US-backed resolution of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on the future of Iraq, French President Jacques Chirac said. The draft text for a resolution has not yet been put to a vote.
World | September 22, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere on Sunday and then self-destructed after a 14-year, exploration of the solar system's largest planet and a 2.8 billion-mile journey.
World | September 22, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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A car bomb exploded Monday morning while the vehicle was being examined at a checkpoint as it tried to enter the United Nations (UN) compound in Iraq, killing at least two people -- the driver and an Iraqi policeman -- and injuring nineteen others, local
World | September 22, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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Iraqi Governing Council member Akila al-Hashimi was in a "critical but stable" condition after a second operation for gunshot wounds, while her colleagues were split over whether Saddam Hussein loyalists or foreign militants tried to kill her. Douglas Bra
World | September 21, 2003, Sunday // 00:00
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Three American soldiers were killed and 13 injured in a mortar attack and a bombing in the volatile region of central Iraq, the U.S.
World | September 21, 2003, Sunday // 00:00
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