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August 4, 2005
(
2005-08-04
)
(Thursday)
history
watch
Ayman al-Zawahri
, a leader of
Al-Qaeda
, has issued a televised statement blaming
Tony Blair
and his government's
foreign policy
for the
July 2005 London bombings
.
(BBC)
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
:
The Ministry of Housing in
Israel
has issued tenders for the construction of a further 72 houses in an
Israeli settlement
of
Betar Illit
, near
Bethlehem
, on the
West Bank
.
(BBC)
Four
Israeli Arabs
, two Christian and two Muslim, are killed by
Eden Nathan-Zadah
, member of the banned
Jewish
extremist
Kach
party, when he opens fire on a
bus
in
Shfar'am
,
Israel
. He was later
lynched
by a mob. Nathan-Zadah was
AWOL
from his
IDF
post.
(Haaretz)
,
(the Guardian)
(CNN)
,
(BBC)
In the
UK
, the Bank of England's
Monetary Policy Committee
has cut its interest rate by a quarter percent to 4.5%
(BBC)
The leaders of the recent bloodless Coup in
Mauritania
name
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
, former national police chief, as the new president of the country
(Al-Jazeera)
Scientists in
Seoul National University
,
South Korea
, have
cloned
a dog named
Snuppy
(Dong, South Korea)
(Channel News Asia)
(Science Daily)
New Zealand's ruling
Labour Party
state that they plan to set limit to claims to
Waitangi Tribunals
to
2008
and settlements to
2020
(Stuff)
(Channel News Asia)
(BBC)
Negotiations between the
Philippines
government and the National Democratic Front, the political wings of the
Communist Party of the Philippines
, break down. The Government has ended immunity of their members from arrest
(INQ7)
(Reuters AlertNet)
(IHT)
The
African Union
suspends
Mauritania
from the group after the recent
coup
.
(Reuters AlertNet)
Portuguese
firefighters fight huge
forest fires
in the districts of
Aveiro
,
Braga
and
Porto
(Euronews)
Italian
scientists have found
cocaine
residue in the
Po River
water
(Medical News Today)
(BBC)
The parliament in
Senegal
votes to put former prime minister
Idrissa Seck
on trial for
embezzlement
and threatening state security.
(Reuters SA)
(Reuters AlertNet)
(BBC)
The
Nepalese
court rejects criminal
Charles Sobhraj
's appeal against his
life sentence
. His lawyer intends to appeal to the
United Nations
Court of Human Rights
(Himalayan Times)
(BBC)
The
Indian
Supreme Court upholds the death sentence of
Mohammad Afzal
in connection with parliament attack case
Month
August 2005
Previous day
August 3
Next day
August 5
Category
:
2005 by day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
Portal:Current events
August 4, 2005
(
2005-08-04
)
(Thursday)
history
watch
Ayman al-Zawahri
, a leader of
Al-Qaeda
, has issued a televised statement blaming
Tony Blair
and his government's
foreign policy
for the
July 2005 London bombings
.
(BBC)
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
:
The Ministry of Housing in
Israel
has issued tenders for the construction of a further 72 houses in an
Israeli settlement
of
Betar Illit
, near
Bethlehem
, on the
West Bank
.
(BBC)
Four
Israeli Arabs
, two Christian and two Muslim, are killed by
Eden Nathan-Zadah
, member of the banned
Jewish
extremist
Kach
party, when he opens fire on a
bus
in
Shfar'am
,
Israel
. He was later
lynched
by a mob. Nathan-Zadah was
AWOL
from his
IDF
post.
(Haaretz)
,
(the Guardian)
(CNN)
,
(BBC)
In the
UK
, the Bank of England's
Monetary Policy Committee
has cut its interest rate by a quarter percent to 4.5%
(BBC)
The leaders of the recent bloodless Coup in
Mauritania
name
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
, former national police chief, as the new president of the country
(Al-Jazeera)
Scientists in
Seoul National University
,
South Korea
, have
cloned
a dog named
Snuppy
(Dong, South Korea)
(Channel News Asia)
(Science Daily)
New Zealand's ruling
Labour Party
state that they plan to set limit to claims to
Waitangi Tribunals
to
2008
and settlements to
2020
(Stuff)
(Channel News Asia)
(BBC)
Negotiations between the
Philippines
government and the National Democratic Front, the political wings of the
Communist Party of the Philippines
, break down. The Government has ended immunity of their members from arrest
(INQ7)
(Reuters AlertNet)
(IHT)
The
African Union
suspends
Mauritania
from the group after the recent
coup
.
(Reuters AlertNet)
Portuguese
firefighters fight huge
forest fires
in the districts of
Aveiro
,
Braga
and
Porto
(Euronews)
Italian
scientists have found
cocaine
residue in the
Po River
water
(Medical News Today)
(BBC)
The parliament in
Senegal
votes to put former prime minister
Idrissa Seck
on trial for
embezzlement
and threatening state security.
(Reuters SA)
(Reuters AlertNet)
(BBC)
The
Nepalese
court rejects criminal
Charles Sobhraj
's appeal against his
life sentence
. His lawyer intends to appeal to the
United Nations
Court of Human Rights
(Himalayan Times)
(BBC)
The
Indian
Supreme Court upholds the death sentence of
Mohammad Afzal
in connection with parliament attack case
Month
August 2005
Previous day
August 3
Next day
August 5
Category
:
2005 by day
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