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2003 Jun 14 |
A car driven by Phoenix Bishop Thomas O'Brien struck and killed pedestrian Jim Reed; O'Brien was later convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and sentenced to probation. Links: Arizona 
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2003 Jun 14 |
A Colombia air force commander said leftist rebel camps were bombarded and that an estimated 67 insurgents were killed in southern Meta and Cauca state. Links: Colombia
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2003 Jun 14 |
Iran's hard-line judiciary arrested "scores" of pro-clergy militants, including a vigilante leader, over attacks on a Tehran student dormitory sparked by attacks on pro-reform supporters. Links: Iran
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2003 Jun 14 |
North and South Korea connected railways at their heavily armed border in a symbolic ceremony linking the two countries for the first time in more than a half-century. North Korea still had 7 miles of tracks to complete before trains could run. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Jun 14 |
In eastern Uganda a minivan bus plunged into a swamp and sank, killing 18 passengers. Links: Uganda, Bus Crash
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2004 Jun 14 |
Azerbaijan Fatulla Huseynov (67), an opposition party leader known for his bold military exploits in the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, was shot and killed in Baku. Links: Azerbaijan
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2004 Jun 14 |
In Bangladesh the death toll from a powerful weekend storm rose to at least 13. About 140 fishermen were missing. Links: Bangladesh
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2004 Jun 14 |
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said Eastern Congo is rapidly turning into a major humanitarian disaster, with 3.3 million people out of reach of relief groups. Links: UN, CongoDRC
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2004 Jun 14 |
The US Supreme Court allowed millions of schoolchildren to keep affirming loyalty to one nation "under God" but dodged the underlying question of whether the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional blending of church and state. Links: USA, God, Supreme Court
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2004 Jun 14 |
John Ashcroft unsealed an indictment against Nuradin Abdi, a Somali immigrant, on charges of plotting with al Qaeda operatives to blow up a shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio. Abdi was arrested on immigration charges on Nov 28, 2003. Abdi was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2007 after pleading guilty in an alleged plot to blow up an Ohio shopping mall. Links: USA, Ohio, Somalia, al-Qaida, Migrant
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2004 Jun 14 |
The US military released hundreds of prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison. Links: Iraq, USA
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2004 Jun 14 |
A car bomb tore through a convoy in central Baghdad, killing at least 12 people, including an American and four other foreigners working to rebuild Iraq's power plants. Links: Iraq, USA
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2004 Jun 14 |
The bodies of 6 Shiite truck drivers were found at a morgue in Ramadi, west of Fallujah. They had sought refuge in a police station but were handed over to a hard-line Sunni cleric because they were Shiites. Links: Iraq
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2004 Jun 14 |
The Israeli Supreme Court decided that Israeli municipalities must permit the sale of pork where a majority of residents demand it. Links: Israel, Food
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2004 Jun 14 |
An Israeli helicopter attack in the West Bank killed 2 Palestinian militants. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2004 Jun 14 |
It was reported that Hmong commanders in Laos acknowledged 21 rebel groups with about 17,000 fighters and family members. Links: Laos
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2004 Jun 14 |
Police in Nepal said a land mine planted by suspected rebels blew up two police trucks in western Nepal, killing at least 22 officers. Links: Nepal, Land Mines
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2004 Jun 14 |
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland criticized the Sudanese government for blocking aid workers, food and equipment from reaching the Darfur region. Links: UN, Sudan
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2004 Jun 14 |
The Swiss parliament voted to end a 96-year ban on absinthe. The green spirit was allowed back into shops in much of western Europe following an European Union directive in 1981, but it remained outlawed in Switzerland. Links: Switzerland
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2004 Jun 14 |
Typhoon Chanthu killed 7 people and left seven more missing when it swept through central Vietnam over the weekend. Links: Vietnam
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2005 Jun 14 |
A health expert warned that Kabul is on the verge of a cholera epidemic, with more than 2,000 cases of the disease and at least eight deaths reported in recent weeks. Links: Microbiology, Afghan
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2005 Jun 14 |
Fighting between about 90 suspected Taliban rebels and hundreds of Afghan soldiers and U.S.-led coalition troops left seven insurgents dead and 10 wounded, while a rebel attack on a medical clinic killed a doctor and six others. Links: USA, Afghan
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2005 Jun 14 |
A 7.9 earthquake rattled cities in Bolivia and Peru and heavily damaged mountain villages in northern Chile, killing at least 11 people including a family of 6. Links: Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Earthquake
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2005 Jun 14 |
Zimbabwe reported that police have razed more than 20,000 shacks and other structures in what President Robert Mugabe called “Operation Murambatsvina,” (drive out the rubbish), an urban cleanup campaign. Some 700,000 people had their homes or businesses destroyed in the campaign. Links: Zimbabwe
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2005 Jun 14 |
The Argentine Supreme Court struck down 2 amnesty laws passed in the 1980s. Hundreds of people could be charged with torture, disappearances and babynapping during Argentina's "Dirty War" against dissidents. Links: Argentina
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2005 Jun 14 |
The 7.0-magnitude quake struck northern California about 90 miles southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, where a 1964 tsunami killed 11 people. Links: California, Earthquake
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2005 Jun 14 |
Colombia unveiled its own version of a deck of cards for its most wanted insurgent leaders. Army officials planned to distribute 5,000 of the decks to soldiers battling the rebels across the country. Links: Colombia
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2005 Jun 14 |
In Athens, Greece, Asafa Powell of Jamaica, broke the world 100-meter dash record with a time of 9.77 seconds. Links: Greece, Jamaica
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2005 Jun 14 |
A bomb exploded outside a bank in Kirkuk, killing 23 people, including child street vendors and pensioners waiting for their checks. In Baghdad, the bodies of 24 men killed in ambushes were brought to a hospital. 5 Iraqi and 3 US soldiers were killed. Links: Iraq, USA
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2005 Jun 14 |
A senior US military official said up to 20 percent of suicide car bombers in Iraq are from Algeria, a sign of growing cooperation between Islamic extremists in northern Africa and like-minded Iraqis. Links: Algeria, Iraq, USA, Suicide
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2005 Jun 14 |
Carlo Maria Giulini (91), renowned conductor, died in Brescia, Italy. Links: Italy
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2005 Jun 14 |
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. broke ground on a new assembly plant in St. Petersburg, in a vote of confidence in the booming Russian consumer market despite investors' jitters over the Yukos case. Links: Russia, Japan, Cars
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2005 Jun 14 |
A strike called by Kashmir separatists paralyzed India's portion of the disputed Himalayan province, shutting almost all shops, schools and offices to protest an apparent suicide attack that killed 15 people and injured 60 a day earlier. Links: India, Kashmir
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2005 Jun 14 |
Raul Salinas, the brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was released on bail after 10 years in prison on charges he masterminded the 1994 killing of a political rival. Links: Mexico
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2005 Jun 14 |
Nepal freed all the journalists detained in a protest of media restrictions, bowing to international demands that the reporters be released at once. Links: Nepal
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2005 Jun 14 |
President Thabo Mbeki dismissed his deputy Jacob Zuma, after he was implicated in a corruption scandal, throwing wide open the question of who will become the next leader of South Africa. Mbeki soon picked Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, his minister for minerals and energy, to replace Zuma. Links: South Africa
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2005 Jun 14 |
A UN report showed South America's cocaine output rose by 2 percent last year, bucking a five year downward trend as increases in Peru and Bolivia outpaced Colombia's clampdown on coca cultivation. Links: Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, UN, Drugs
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2005 Jun 14 |
US Army deserter Charles Jenkins, who crossed into North Korea in 1965, arrived in the United States for his first visit in 40 years. Links: USA, North Korea
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2005 Jun 14 |
Michelle Wie became the first female player to qualify for an adult male U.S. Golf Association championship, tying for first place in a 36-hole U.S. Amateur Public Links sectional qualifying tournament. Links: USA, Women, Golf
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2006 Jun 14 |
Coalition and Afghan forces killed 26 suspected militants in fighting in eastern mountains, while in southern Afghanistan, more than 11,000 troops prepared for their biggest offensive since the fall of the Taliban five years ago. Links: USA, Afghan
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2006 Jun 14 |
Four Andean nations (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru) agreed to chart new trade plans with the United States without Venezuela. Links: Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
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2006 Jun 14 |
China and Taiwan they've agreed to launch direct charter passenger flights between them during major holidays, a key trust-building step toward restoring regular direct flights cut five decades ago amid civil war. Links: China, Taiwan, Aviation
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2006 Jun 14 |
India's largest film festival kicked off in Dubai, as a number of Bollywood stars descended on this booming Gulf city state where Indians make up the largest community. Links: UAR, India, Dubai, Film
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2006 Jun 14 |
A French court handed down prison terms ranging from six months to 10 years for 25 Islamic radicals convicted of planning to carry out attacks on the Eiffel Tower and other targets in Paris. All but one had been accused of helping Islamic fighters in Chechnya. Links: France, Chechnya
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2006 Jun 14 |
German drugmaker Merck KGaA agreed to sell its 21.8% stake in Schering AG to Bayer AG, clearing the way for Bayer to take over Schering and end a merger drama that saw Merck in a position to block the takeover. In the process Merck gained a windfall of some €400 million. Links: Germany, Pharma, M&A
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2006 Jun 14 |
In Indonesia Abu Bakar Bashir (68), a reputed top leader of an al-Qaida-linked terror group that has been blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings and other deadly attacks, walked free from prison after serving 26 months for conspiracy. Links: Indonesia, al-Qaida
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2006 Jun 14 |
Tens of thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers searched cars and secured roads in Baghdad as PM Nouri al-Maliki launched a major security crackdown aimed at ending the violence that has devastated the capital. Links: Iraq
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2006 Jun 14 |
Dozens of Palestinian civil servants stormed a parliamentary session to demand long-overdue salaries, attacking Hamas lawmakers and forcing the parliament speaker to flee the building. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, who has been seeking to raise money for the financially strapped government, returned to the Gaza Strip with luggage containing $20 million in cash from Muslim nations. A Hamas militant was shot and killed outside his home in the Gaza town of Khan Younis after Hamas gunmen shot a security commander loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Links: Palestine
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2006 Jun 14 |
Somali lawmakers in Baidoa approved a peacekeeping mission for Somalia. Islamic militia captured Jowhar from warlord Mohammed Dheere, a member of the US-backed Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT). Links: USA, Somalia
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2006 Jun 14 |
Azerbaijan and Armenia promised to continue talks over Nagorno-Karabakh despite two failed efforts this year by the Caucasus nations' presidents to resolve the status of the disputed enclave. Links: Azerbaijan, Armenia
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2006 Jun 14 |
Gunmen killed seven coca pickers in southwestern Colombia in an attack police blamed on leftist rebels. Links: Colombia
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2006 Jun 14 |
France's highest court upheld George Soros' conviction for insider trading in a case dating back nearly 20 years, and the billionaire investor vowed to fight the ruling at the European Court of Human Rights. Links: France, Lawsuit, Big Money
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In Indian Kashmir suspected Islamic insurgents shot dead five Muslims, and exploded a bomb that injured four people. Links: India, Kashmir
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2006 Jun 14 |
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said his office had documented massacres with hundreds of victims in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region as well as hundreds of rape cases. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2006 Jun 14 |
In NYC Kenny Alexis (20), a homeless man, was arrested following a string of stabbings through Manhattan over a 13-hour period. Links: USA, NYC, Mad Man
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2006 Jun 14 |
A delegation from Kabul found prison conditions at Guantanamo humane and said the US will send home for trial all 96 Afghans held there. Links: USA, Afghan, Gitmo
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2006 Jun 14 |
In Mexico some 3000 elements of the state ministerial police, preventive police and Oaxaca state firemen began to violently remove a sit-in of 70,000 workers from Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) with tear gas, smoke grenades, stun grenades and firearms. Thus far there have been 13 reported arrests, 4 injuries, 5 bullet wounds, and between 6 and 9 deaths, as well as a break-in to the Teachers' Union building and the destruction of the installations of Radio Plantón (a free/non-licensed community radio station that has been a point of reference for social movements in Oaxaca). Links: Mexico
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2006 Jun 14 |
Pres. Hugo Chavez said Venezuela will buy 24 Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets this year, and his government will build a factory to produce Kalashnikov assault rifles. Links: Russia, Venezuela, Guns
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2006 Jun 14 |
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Donald Hall (77), former poet laureate of New Hampshire, as the next poet laureate of the US. Links: USA, Poet, New Hampshire
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2006 Jun 14 |
Shares of EADS, the parent company of Airbus, fell 26% following an announcement that its new 555-seat airliner would be delayed up to 7 months. Links: France, Germany, Aviation
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