August 2002

Thursday 2002

  • In France, the National Assembly and the Senate vote the project of law creating device of support for the employment of the young people in company . http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/12/ta/ta0023.asp

  • UNO publishes the report of investigation made by the former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari on the events which occurred in April in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin in the West Bank. Following the difficulties made by the Israeli Government, the investigation was carried out starting from the head office of UNO in New York. The report/ratio shares the responsibility for the events between Israéliens and Palestinians, and it draws up the human account: 52 deaths Palestinian (of which a half of civilians) and 23 died among the Israeli soldiers.

  • In reprisals with the attack-suicide of the July 31st in the enclosure of the Hebraic University of Jerusalem, Tsahal accelerates the rate/rhythm of destruction of the houses of the families of the authors of the attack-suicide.

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Friday August 2nd 2002

  • the militant of extreme-right-hand side Maxime Brunerie, author of the attempted murder against the president Jacques Chirac, the last July 14th, is put in examination and écroué at the médico-psychological service of the Prison of Health at Paris.

  • the Iraqi Gouvernement invites the chief of the U.N. experts Hans Blix to come in Iraq.

    • the General secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, accommodates the invitation favorably, but considers it regrettable that “the procedure suggested deviates from that established by the Safety advice”.
    • Washington and London disallows the Iraqi proposal categorically.
    • the 4, Hans Blix draws aside also the proposal.

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Saturday August 3rd 2002

  • In France, the Assembled national one votes the project of law of orientation and programming for justice. http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/12/ta/ta0026.asp, and the project of Loi carrying amnesties http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/12/ta/ta0025.asp. End of the extraordinary parliamentary session.

  • At its last meeting before the anticipated legislative elections of the November 3rd, the Turkish National Assembly adopts all the preconditions required by the European Union for the examination of the candidature of the Turkey: abolition of the capital punishment, granting of cultural rights to the Kurdish , widenings of public freedoms.

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Sunday August 4th 2002

  • With Soham close to Cambridge in England, two 10 year old young girls, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells is removed.

    • the 17, a couple of suspects is stopped, it acts of Ian Huntsley , 28 years, and of his/her partner Maxime Carr , 25 years, respectively guard and teacher with the college of Soham , where the two children were provided education for.
    • the same day the bodies of the two small victims are found in a wood close to the air base of Lakenheath.
    • the 20, Ian Huntsley is accused of the murders and internee in a psychiatric unit.

  • In Spain, car bomb attack in front of a barracks of the Civil guard, allotted to the ETA, Santa Pola, seaside resort in the south-west of Alicante: 2 dead of which young girl a 6 year old and 34 people wounded.

  • Attack-suicide in a bus, the north of Israel, asserted by the Hamas: 9 killed Israelis and 52 wounded.
  • With alternate Barcelona (Spain), of Serafín Marín, Spanish Matador.
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Monday August 5th 2002

  • In Colombia, a series of attacks, allotted to the FARC, causes the death of many people, at two days of the nomination of the new president Alvaro Uribe.

  • the Iraqi Gouvernement invites the American Congrès to send in Iraq a mission of investigation on its armaments. The White House counterpart which she considers useless any discussion.

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Tuesday August 6th 2002

  • In France, the the Council of Ministers pronounces the dissolution of the nationalist bunch “radical Unit” to which was close, Maxime Brunerie , the person in charge of the attempted murder on the person of the president Jacques Chirac before the procession of the July 14th.

  • Official visit with Tripoli in Libya, of the secretary of foreign affairs of the British Government, Mike O' Brien .

  • In the south of the Chetchnia, close to the border géorgienne, eleven militiamans tchetchenes pro-Russian are killed by a remote-controlled mine. The Russian Gouvernement shows the Gouvernement géorgien to protect the freedom fighters tchetchenes.

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Wednesday August 7th 2002

  • In Colombia, at the very moment of the nomination of the new president Alvaro Uribe, a series of bombs explode in the capital Bogota, causing death 12 people, and of rocket fires reach the presidential palace. The 12, the president Alvaro Uribe states the “state of interior commotion”.

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Thursday August 8th 2002

  • the Saddam Hussein invites UNO to respect “its engagements towards the Iraq, under the terms of its own resolutions”.

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Friday August 9th 2002

  • In France, the administrative court of Grenoble rejects the request of the Front National against the Deputy and mayor of Annecy, Bernard Bosson, which wanted to prohibit the behavior of the Summer school of the party frontist. After an emergency seizure, the 9, the Council of State repudiates Bernard Bosson.

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Saturday August 10th 2002

Sunday August 11th 2002

Monday August 12th 2002

  • the ultimatum with the white farmers of the Zimbabwe to give up and leave their ground, without condition, being expired, the Zimbabwean Government lance a wave of arrests and expulsions.

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Tuesday August 13rd 2002

  • Matthew J. Holman, John J. Kavelaars and daN Milisavljevic discovers the first new major planet satellite of XXIe century, Trinculo. The two other moons are discovered the same day, always around Uranus: S/2001 U 2 and S/2001 U 3 (Brett J. Gladman is added to the team for these two discovered).

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Wednesday August 14th 2002

Peak of the floods which, with Prague, paralyze the economic activity and destroy the subway of the city, the Musée Kampa and of many other buildings. By chance one regrets only of the property damages and any human loss. ----

Thursday August 15th 2002

  • With the the United States, more than 600 victims' families of the attacks of the September 11th carries felt sorry for against financial supposed terrorist network Al-Qaida, of which several Saoudi banking institutions and three princes.

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Friday August 16th 2002

  • From August 16th to 18th, for the eighth time, the pope Jean-Paul II accomplishes a triumphal voyage, in its native land, the Poland, in the area of Cracow, of which he was the archbishop of 1964 to 1978.

    • the 17, dedication of the new basilica of Lagiewniki.
    • 18, great mass of beatification of four Polish monks, in the presence of more than 2 million faithful.

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Saturday August 17th 2002

  • From August 17th to 29th, event-driven operation of massive regularization of immigrants “without-papers”, with the active support of the Parisian clergy.

    • the 17,130 illegal immigrants of African and Asian origin occupy the royal Basilique of Saint-Denis, French symbolic system high-place, immediately accompanied by a whole material logistics and communication.
    • 24 and 27, with Paris, great manifestation of “without papers”, at the time of the sixth birthday of the evacuation of the church Saint-Bernard .
    • the 27, the ministry for the interior receives a delegation, and indicates that it is not question of the massive regularization, but only of the regularizations “on a case-by-case basis”.
    • the 29, the bishop of Saint-Denis, Mgr of Berranger, requires of the occupants to leave the basilica.

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Sunday August 18th 2002

  • With Berlin in Germany, top enters the European Union and the Central European countries, devoted to the financing of repairs after the serious floods. The needs are estimated at least 20 billion euros.

  • From August 18th to 23rd, Official visit, in the Russian Far East , of the Head of State North-Korean Kim Jong-il, on board its armoured train. The 23, discussion with Vladimir Poutine.

  • the Russian Gouvernement announces the signature of an economic cooperation agreement and commercial with Baghdad, for a value of 40 billion dollars.

  • With Tel-Aviv, an agreement, called “Gaza and Bethlehem initially”, is concluded between the Israeli minister from Defense, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, and the new Palestinian Minister of Interior Department, Abdelrazak Al-Yahya, concerning the Israeli withdrawal of the re-occupied parts of the Gaza Strip and Bethlehem. The 25, the minister without portfolio Israeli Danny Naveh announces that the agreement is “cold”.

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Monday August 19th 2002

Tuesday August 20th 2002

  • At the time of the international Congress of mathematics to Beijing in China, the French researcher of CNRS, Laurent Lafforgue , received, at 35 years, the medal Fields , the highest distinction in mathematics. Since 1950, seven French received this decreed medal every four years.

  • Of the Iraqi opponents with Saddam Hussein, carries out a taking of hostages to the embassy of Iraq to Berlin in Germany. The German special forces put an end to it at the end of five hours.

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Wednesday August 21st 2002

Thursday August 22nd 2002

Friday August 23rd 2002

  • Russian aviation carries out, on the territory géorgien, an air raid of the area of the Gorges of Pankissi, base camp tchetchene, according to Russian. 25, the Government géorgien lance a thousand of men, special forces of the ministry for the interior, with the attack of the throats.

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Saturday August 24th 2002

Sunday August 25th 2002

  • Paolo Persichetti , former activist of the Union of the Communists combatants , condemned in Italy in 1991, at 22 years of prison for complicity in the assassination, in 1987, of the general Licio Georgieri is stopped in France and is extradited towards the Italy. It had been installed with Paris for 11 years and taught political sociology with the Université of Paris VIII. This procedure of extradition is a first since 1985.

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Monday August 26th 2002

  • With broad of the island of Center, a Norwegian chimiquier in difficulty, the Bow Eagle éperonne a French trawler, the Cistude , and carries on its road: 4 of the 7 sailors are reported missing. The 29, the ship-owner recognizes the implication of the ship in the shipwreck.

  • In Spain, at the request of the judge Baltazar Garzon who orders the suspension of the activities of the Basque independence party Batasuna, the deputies vote to 90% the total ban of the party.

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Tuesday August 27th 2002

  • Of the 27 to the 30, after politico-legal sharp adventures, the Summer school of the Front National is held with the Impérial De luxe hotel with Annecy.

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Wednesday August 28th 2002

Thursday August 29th 2002

  • Jean-Luc Margot and Michael (Mike) E. Brown discover a satellite with the asteroid 22 Calliope; he will be baptized S/2001 (22) 1 Linus.

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Friday August 30th 2002

Biodiversity
Launching of Funds to save the world genetic inheritance of cultures
The scientists responsible for genetic banks throughout the world launched yesterday Funds to save vegetable world genetic inheritance. This Funds in support of FAO.
There exist 14.790 collections (seeds, plants) preserved in banks distributed through 150 countries. They contain approximately 5,4 million specimens.

  • In France, the conglomerate Vivendi Universal announces the sale, for 300 million euros, of its pole general public presses (of which the Express train and the Expansion ) with the group Socpresse , editor inter alia daily newspaper Le Figaro.

  • Official visit of the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy with Bucharest in Romania, devoted to the fight against clandestine immigration.

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Saturday August 31st 2002

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