August 2004

the éphéméride | All on August and 2004 ----

Sunday 2004

Paraguay, Asunción: the explosion, towards 11:30 (local time) in a shopping mall of a bottle of Gas in the kitchen of a restaurant pertaining to the chain Ycua Bolanos, started a fire which was propagated at all the building. The persons in charge of the establishment ordered with the vigils to buckle the exits to prevent that the customers do not leave without paying. The doors were open only on arrival of the helps, but under the effect of heat part of the ceilings had started to collapse on more than seven hundred customers present at this moment. One counts more than three hundred soixante-douze died and three hundreds wounded, victims of the flames, gases pollutant, or buried under the debris.
World Trade organization (OMC), Geneva, Swiss: the concluding of an agreement between the 147 members of OMC. Those agreed to take again the negotiations on a final date of removal of the government aid to agricultural exports .
Poland: commemoration of the beginning of the Insurrection of Warsaw (- October 2nd 1944) for the Sovereignty of the country, which had been repressed in blood, of 200 000 Poles by the Nazi S. For the first time, a German chancellor , Gerhard Schröder, took part in the ceremonies, like Colin Powell, Secretary of State of the the United States and John Prescott Deputy Prime Minister for the the United Kingdom.
Iraq: attacks aimed at the Christian minority of Iraq per hour of vespers. Explosions simultaneously resounded with Mosul, Kirkuk and Baghdad, concerning churches, a seminar and the residence of a Christian family. One counts ten dead and many casualties.

----

Monday August 2nd 2004

Belgium, Cartoon: died of the Belgian author of cartoons François Craenhals (the 4 Aces).
Canada, Quebec: with Jonquière, the employees of the store Wal-Mart are the first of this chain to being syndicated in North America. A first attempt at trade-union accreditation was rejected by Vote, in last April.
the United States: the level of alarm of terrorist threat was raised, causing tightenings of safety everywhere in the country.
France, Photography: died at the 95 years age of the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson with Montjustin (Alp-of-High-Provence). Old resistant, he was the cofounder of the Magnum agency.
Sudan: in reported remarks in the Sudanese daily newspaper “Al-Anbaa”, the spokesperson of the Sudanese army declares that the resolution 1556 of the Safety advice of UNO on the crisis of the Darfur is a “declaration of war” to the people of Sudan.

----

Tuesday August 3rd 2004

the United States: the probe Messenger was launched in direction of Mercure.

Wednesday August 4th 2004

Botswana: the Bochimans of the Kalahari, threatened of expropriation by the government of the Botswana denounce pressures of the De Beers coveting the diamond which the basement of this ungrateful ground conceals where drove back the Bantous formerly.
France: Jean-Charles Marchiani, old right-hand man of Charles Pasqua and former prefect of the VAr, was put in examination and écroué for “concealment of abuse of corporate asset and trading of favors”. According to Nouvel Observateur , Mr. Marchiani would already have been placed in preventive detention, of the December 13rd 1984 with the March 5th 1985, within the framework of a file classified by the parquet floor of Paris, the June 9th 1988, “because of the regulation of the public action”.
Belgium, Ath: national mourning at the time of the funeral of the police and firemen died during the explosion of a Gas pipeline with Ghislenghien, Friday July 30th 2004.
France, Pregnancy and alcohol: the parquet floor of Lille agreed to launch an preliminary investigation at the request of an association. This association represents mothers whose children were born victims from the Syndrome of fetal alcoholism. The parquet floor will consult the professionals of the production and the sale of alcoholic drinks, as well as representatives of the medical personnel. It is to recall that, during a pregnancy, the future mother must pay attention to the drugs and the food which she takes, and must stop smoking.
Gibraltar: the city celebrates tercentenary its conquest by the the United Kingdom. The Spain which asserts Gibraltar, offusque celebration via its Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos: “It is very strange that one commemorates in the European Union, into full 21e century, military occupation of part of a Member State by another. ” The inhabitants, “colonized” according to the Spanish government, had voted against one cosouveraineté hispano-British at the time of a Référendum in June 2002.
Mauritania, Nouakchott: the capital Mauritanian was invaded in the afternoon by a cloud of Criquet S pilgrims, who started to devour the plants, fruit trees and parks of the city. The last July 19th, the government of Mauritania had called upon the international assistance; and at the end of July, the nine threatened countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad) coordinate their fight against this invasion. For several weeks now, these countries of Africa have undergone the devastations of these insects.

----

Thursday August 5th 2004

France, Pregnancy and alcohol: the mediatization of the preliminary investigation opened by the parquet floor of Lille quickly had national political effects. An amendment which obliged the alcohol producers to indicate on their labels the danger to the expectant mothers of an excessive intake and which the French government refused since of the months, becomes suddenly a measurement which will be quickly installation according to the words of the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and of the Minister for Health Philippe Douste-Blazy. Doctors' associations of the various specialities concerned announced that they will supervise that all the alcoholic drinks (Vin understood) would be concerned with this perspective obligation of affichage.
La of this measurement is disputed in the rows even governing party, initially by Philippe Martin, appointed Marne, mayor of Cumières, president of the national association of the elected officials of the wine, according to which the warning statement of the expectant mothers is the role of the doctor and not of the legislator, and by others which recall that the Prime Minister still decided very recently for the creation of the Council of moderation, with teaching vocation, rather than for what they regard as the forced passage of a “medical message which would be diluted on the labels”. Certain professionals of the wine speak as for them about “an effect of advertisement to give clear conscience”.
Lescheraines, Savoy: a fire in a riding school for teenagers makes 8 dead.
France, statute of EDF: the Constitutional council validated the law “relating to the public service of electricity and gas and with the electric and gas companies”, except for its article 47, which was to allow in particular Francis Mer, former minister, to reach the presidency of the company. The Government will have to make adopt a specific law to remove the current age limit (65 years) of the leaders of the establishments and companies of the public sector. See the decision of the Constitutional council.
France, Pilot of Jéhovah: in an open letter with the resolutely polemical tone, Jean-Pierre Brard, appointed communist of the Seine-Saint-Denis and mayor of Montreuil, shows the doctor Patrick Pelloux, president of the Association of the doctors hospital urgentists of France (AMUHF), to be close to the Témoins of Jéhovah, putting forward an alleged proximity between the doctor trade unionist and a lawyer considered according to him near to the sect, and one supposed participation in a conference organized by an association close to the Witnesses of Jéhovah. The doctor attacked by the deputy counteracts the following day by an action for libel, and rétorque which it practices vaccinations and blood transfusions with length of year, which incompatible with one would be supposed ideological proximity with the sect. He also contradicts the participation in the conference, affirmed by the deputy.

----

Friday August 6th 2004

France: Yves Bot, Prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, indicated the last July 28th to the lawyer S of Charles Pasqua which he refused to deprive the Examining magistrate Philippe Courroye of the investigation into a Affaire of the traffic of weapons towards Angola.
Iraq: important combat between the militia Shiite S and the American Armée would have made 300 died.
Olympic Games of summer of 2004, Bielorussia: the members of the European Union via the presidency Dutchwoman, regard as “inappropriate” the presence of the general Iouri Sivakov, minister of sport of Bielorussia, with Athens for the Olympic Games. The Greek government confirmed that he had refused the granting of a visa of entry on the territory of the Union to the ministre.
L' European Union reproaches Sivakov the disappearance of four political opponents to the Belorusse president Aliaksandr Loukachenka, whereas he was Minister of Interior Department in 1999-2000.
Le Belorusse government speaks about “a provocation moreover”. The Belorusse Olympic committee asked for the intervention of the president of the International Olympic committee, Jacques Rogge, while arguing on the importance of the principles olympiques.
Au August 7th, the CIO required a further information and did not return a decision yet.
Lithuania: this country became the 33e Member State of the European Pharmacopée.

----

Saturday August 7th 2004

South Africa: the New national Party (NP, ex national Parti, with the capacity during the “Apartheid ) will amalgamate with the African National congress (ANC). NP will disappear administratively in September 2005. The ANC thus theoretically controls 71% of the deputies at the South-African legislative assembly.

Corsica France, , the Days of Corte: like each year, with Corte, on the Corsica island of , the movements separatists and freedom fighters of several countries of Western Europe meet. It has 30 years was necessary the first gathering in Corte, in 1974.

France, financing of the Socialist party: the former treasurer then first secretary of the party, Henri Emmanuelli, appointed Moors, put in examination for nine years within the framework of the “Destrade business”, for “concealment of abuse of corporate asset and trading of favors”, has come to profit from a Non-lieu. The business continues however, since, in same time, justice comes to return 21 people, of which Jean-Pierre Destrade, former socialist deputy of the Yrénées-Atlantiques, in front of the magistrates' court of Pau.

Greece, Gulf of Corinth: the bridge between Rion and Antirion, in Greece, is finished by the French company Vinci.

Swiss: the twelfth Street Parade of Zurich accommodated 1 million visitors

----

Sunday August 8th 2004

Europe, Football: this weekend marked the resumption of the championships of football in Germany, Belgium and France.
Greece: inauguration of the Bridge to the longest stay of the world, named Bridge Rion-Antirion above the Gulf of Corinth. It connects Greece of the North-West with the Péninsule of the Peloponnese. Its inauguration was registered in the celebration of next the Olympic Games of summer of 2004 with Athens: this Sunday, the Olympic flame passes on the bridge, relayed by the team of Greece of football which gained the championship of Europe of the nations in June 2004.

----

Monday August 9th 2004

Afghanistan: in two months of the planned elections the October 9th, the staff of the Eurocorps takes for the six next months the direction of ISAF, the international force of safety of NATO. The Canadian lieutenant-general Rick Hillier gave to the French lieutenant-general Jean-Louis Py the command of the operations.
Nuclear Japan, : an accident in the Nuclear plant of Mihama, in the prefecture of Fukui, to 320 km in the North-West of Tokyo, causes the death of four people and makes seven wounded. The cause of the accident is a nonradioactive vapor escape in a building where the turbines of the engine number 3 are located. It is the accident occurred in such an installation most fatal that Japan knew. The operator of the power station recognizes a defect of monitoring of his installations. The broken drain did not fill the standards of sécurité.
Insolite: this accident occurs 59 years day for day after the bombardment of Nagasaki by a atomic bomb, during the Second world war.
Tasmanie, Australia: Richard Butler, the general governor of Tasmanie, representative of the queen Elisabeth II, resigned because of criticisms related to its speeches against the Australian federal government and of the aggressive behaviors in public against his/her collaborators or of the personnel of privately held companies. Its mandate lasted ten mois.
Richard Butler is known in Australia to be a partisan of the République and in the world to have directed the special subcommittee of the the United Nations in charge of disarmament in Iraq of 1997 with 1999.
With Saint-Sebastien (Spain, province of Guipúzcoa), alternate of Eduardo Gallo, Spanish Matador.

----

Tuesday August 10th 2004

the CIA, the United States: the president George Walker Bush named Porter Goss directing central agency of information (the CIA). Large, old secret agent of the CIA, was until now federal deputy of Florida (republican) and chair commission of the information of the Room of the Representatives.

----

Wednesday August 11th 2004

Human cloning, the United Kingdom: for the first time in Europe, an authorization allowing the Clonage human Embryon S was granted to the fine therapeutic ones. It intervenes within the framework of research on the diabetes for the university of Newcastle in England. The embryos will have however to be destroyed after fifteen days.
Denmark: the Danish ministry of the Food has just prohibited the importation and the sale of eighteen new cereal products for the breakfast of the mark of corn flakes Kellogg's by precaution principle. They are considered to be survitaminés and thus dangerous for the organizations of children and the fetus.
Iraq: after seven days of combat with Nadjaf, the situation still hardens between the troops of Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr and the American army . The majority of the inhabitants of the center town seem to have fled this place. Six other Iraqi cities see intense combat between the American militia Shiite and troops.
the United Kingdom: A high Court of Appeal Britannique authorizes the acceptance of evidence obtained by the Torture, provided that the acts of torture were made by another State. (source: Amnesty International)

----

Thursday August 12th 2004

California, the United States: the Supreme court of California cancelled the 4.167 marriages between of the same people sex celebrated with San Francisco by the mayor Gavin Newsom, between the February 12th and the March 11th 2004. The homosexual marriage is a point of debate of the countryside for the presidential election of next November.
France: Zinedine Zidane announces officially the end of its international career within the Équipe of France of football.
Georgia: engagements between the army and the separatist militants of the Ossétie of the South made four died.
Greece: Opening to the circulation of exceptional the Viaduct of Rion-Antirion, dominating the floods top of its 163,7 m (pile and pylon), and connecting the Peloponnese to continental Greece. It was built by the group of French BTP Vinci, and was drawn by the architect Berdj Mikaëlianet. It is dimensioned to resist seisms higher than 7 on the scale of Richter, being transformed into gigantic swing in the event of major jolt.
Iraq: to Nadjaf, the American army, which does not exclude to penetrate in the tomb of the Ali Imam, a great offensive against the militiamans of the Armée with Mahdi launched.
Romania: the German chancellor , Gerhard Schröder collected himself for the first time on the common grave in which his/her father Fritz Schröder, soldier of the Second world war was buried before the birth of his son in April 1944. The tomb was found by the sister of the chancellor in the village of Ceanu Mare in Romania.

----

Friday August 13rd 2004

Burundi with Gatumba in the evening: From 150 to 165 people are victims of a massacre perpetrated in a camp of transit of Congolese refugees tutsis with Gatumba, by the Burundian rebels of the National liberation armies (FNL) whose chief Agathon Rwasa very quickly asserted this bloody attack, perpetrated with the Machette, the knife, the hoe, the grenade, the gasoline and with firearms. However, according to several sources, of the Congoleses and the Hutu Rwandan extremists, based in DRC, also formed part of the attackers, gathered in an anti-tutsie “coalition”.

the majority of the victims were women and children of the community Banyamulenge (Congolese of ascent Rwanda ise) who had fled the Democratic republic of Congo. The Burundian refugees of the camp, of return of exile, were not aimed by this attack.
the mission of UNO in Burundi qualifies this attack of “monstrous” and “foolish” act.

the United States: the Ouragan Charley makes sixteen dead and destroys the dwelling of ten thousand Floridiens.
Greece, Olympic Games of summer of 2004, Athens: Opening ceremony of XXVIIIe Olympiad S of the modern era, on their ground of origin. 10 500 athletes of 202 countries, competitors of 301 tests in 37 disciplines will be accommodated in the Greek capital and four other sites distributed in the country. 5 million spectators is awaited and 4 billion televiewers throughout the world will look at least a test. The world Agence antidopage will carry out at least 3.500 controls.
Iraq: with Nadjaf, Youssef Moqtada al-Sadr was wounded during a bombardment.

----

Saturday August 14th 2004

France:

Several hundreds of militants anti GMO of the Collective of the Faucheurs volunteers destroyed Saturday afternoon two pieces of Maïs Transgénique with Marsat in the Puy-de-Dôme and with Greneville-in-Beauce, close to Pithiviers in the Loiret. They respectively destroyed there 5 hectares of corn (500 participants) and 3 hectares of corn (160 participants). Several elected officials took part in it while a counter-demonstration of farmers pro-GMO was organized in Marsat.
Heavy, France: beginning of the pilgrimage of the Pope Jean-Paul II with Lourdes (Yrénées-Atlantiques), day day before of the Assumption, in the honor of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus-Christ for the Christian . Accommodated by the president Jacques Chirac with Tarbes, the pope celebrated a mass Sunday August 15th.
Commemorations of the unloading of Provence: Two ceremonies proceeded with the American cemetery of Draguignan (Var) where 861 soldiers like with La Motte (VAr) rest, first village of Provence released thanks to the parachuting of British troops.

Maldives : 185 people have been stopped at the conclusion of a hostile demonstration to the government of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with the capacity for 26 years; the demonstrators required more Démocratie.

----

Sunday August 15th 2004

the United States: After having devastated Cuba and the Florida, where sixteen dead is currently to regret and a wake of destruction (houses, cars, trees, pylons), the cyclone “Charley” carries on its way, along the east coast of the United States, after its transformation into tropical storm. The first estimates locate the damage at 15 billion $US.
France:

the president Jacques Chirac, in the presence of sixteen African heads of state and government, paid homage Sunday with Toulon to the “immense sacrifice of the forces of freedom” which took part 60 years ago with the unloading of Provence. According to the prefecture of the VAr, some two hundred and thousand people attended from the Toulon-native coasts this ceremony.

the president of the Republic gave of decorations to twenty and one veterans, primarily African, and the cross of the Légion of honor “at the town of Algiers as a capital of fighting France”, for its role of host of the French Comité of the national Release. Quotation on wikiquote
the commemorations proceeded mainly in the roads of Toulon on board the Porte-avions Charles de Gaulle, in the presence of several Heads of State, of which the presidents of country of Africa, old French colonies and of which inhabitants engaged in the free French Forces during the Second world war.
However, the arrival of the president Algérie N Abdelaziz Bouteflika caused the opposition of French deputies of the UMP and of French associations war veterans, reproaching him recent abusive remarks against the Harki S at the time of its visit the National Assembly.

Heavy: the Pape Jean-Paul II celebrated the Messe in front of more 300 000 pilgrims.

Israel:

1 464 Palestinians held by Israel, on 3 800 for sedentary reasons start an indefinite hunger strike in order to protest against their conditions of imprisonment. Hunger strikers - including approximately 600 condemned to the life imprisonment - threatened “to transform itself into martyrs” while letting itself die.
a Palestinian was killed Sunday in Jerusalem east by the shootings of an Israeli frontier guard whom it had just wounded with stabs. This death carries to 4 230 people killed since the beginning of the Intifada at the end of September 2000, of which 3 232 Palestinians and 927 Israelis.

Liechtenstein: Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, prince reigning of the country, transmitted the direction of the go concern to his/her son Aloïs of Liechtenstein, named “representative entitled to exert all the functions of Head of State”.
Venezuela: revocatory referendum in Venezuela organized at the request of the opposition. For or against the ousting of the president Hugo Chávez elected in 1998 and re-elected in 2000 (for the change of Constitution). The surveys give 63% of “not” (support for the Chàvez government). The stake of the Nationalization of the Pétrole has been major in this poll, especially in this period of rise of the price of barrel which is useful, for a few years, with the government of Venezuela to finance funds of social security.

----

Monday August 16th 2004

the United Kingdom: violent floods in the south-west of the country, in Cornouailles, making innumerable damage and ten wounded and a thousand of disaster victims. It fell in two hours the pluviometric equivalent one month.
the United States: the president George W. Bush announces a vast withdrawal of the American troops of Europe and Asia. It is about the most important redeployment of American forces stationed abroad since the end of the Cold war, and would concern between 60.000 and 70.000 American soldiers over the ten next years. These forces would be redeployed “in new places so that they can face new unexpected threats quickly”.
France: the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin gave up registering in the budget 2005 his project of tax amnesty aiming at supporting the return of the capital illegally expatriates, while declaring: “It appears clearly that this action must be committed at the European level, in coherence. ” This project called “project of relocalization of the capital expatriates” was inspired by the examples German and Italian and had caused a true outcry on the left and sometimes even on the right.
Iraq: the Islamic army of Iraq asserts the abduction of the Iranian consul of Kerbala, Fereydoun Jahani, and threatens “to punish it” if Iran does not release 500 prisoners of war which opposed the two countries between 1980 and 1988. In full period of tension between the two neighbors, the Iranian Gouvernement warns the Iraqi Gouvernement and “holds the temporary government for only person in charge”.

According to the government spokesman Iranian, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh: “Iran did not hold any more Iraqi prisoners of war. The file is closed, Iran said it many and many times and that was confirmed by the international organizations. The only problem outstanding is that of reported missing. ” The two countries exchanged on the whole 97.000 prisoners between 1988 and 2003 under the supervision of the International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Of official Iraqi and American shows the Iranians to be involved in the Iraqi businesses and to even arm the rebellion with the majority Shiites. The press gave a report on multiple Iranian arrests.

Saturn: NASA announces that the probe Sonde Cassini-Huygens discovered two new natural satellite of Saturn. They have as a provisional name S/2004 S1 and S/2004 S2. (NASA)
Venezuela: the president Hugo Chávez gained the referendum over his possible revocation, with 58,25% of the voices, but the opposition refuses to validate the results “because the votes were not correctly checked” and of many incidents enamelled this day according to it, which contradicts the international observers, and speaks about electoral fraud, but nothing is proven. In any event, the president Hugo Chávez will remain with the capacity until the end of his mandate. The course of the Pétrole slackens slightly.
With Málaga (Spain), alternate of Pedro Gutiérrez Lorenzo known as “El Capea”, Spanish Matador.

----

Tuesday August 17th 2004

Turkey, Istanbul: violent floods in the Turkish city. Two people are reported missing.
the China, the Japan and the South Korea announced an alliance for the development of the free operating system information Linux. “The users within the governments need safety, and the contractors need not very expensive software. Linux meets these two needs”, indicated Lu Shouqun at Reuters, chair China Open Source Software Promotion Union. Article Yahoo Release ZDNet

----

Wednesday August 18th 2004

Medicine: the molecule OZ 277 is presented in the scientific magazine Nature . It constitutes a hope for the 600 million patients of the Paludisme in the world.
Iraq: contradictory rumors circulate on the position of Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr as for the ultimatum which fixed to him the temporary government Iraq IEN.

----

Thursday August 19th 2004

the United States, Peer-to-peer: the Court of Appeal of the United States cleared the software publishers peer-to-peer Grokster and Streamcast which were shown to have facilitated music piracy on Internet.

----

Friday August 20th 2004

Iraq: two French journalists (Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot) are removed by the Islamic army in Iraq, in the south of Baghdad.

Saturday August 21st 2004

Sunday August 22nd 2004

Norway, Oslo: flight of two tables of Edvard Munch: the Cry and the Madonna with the Munch museum of Oslo.

----

Monday August 23rd 2004

Tuesday August 24th 2004

Lebanon: The Lebanese president Emile Lahoud (Christian), whose mandate will expire the November 24th 2004, and is not renewable in theory, according to article 49 of the Constitution approved at the time of the Accords of Taëf (1989) which put an end to the civil war, caused a true outcry by announcing its possible candidature for the next presidential election. It is suspecté to be the favorite candidate of the Syrian neighbor, who still has a quota of 20 000 men in Lebanon. The deputy Bassem Sabaa showed the president to prepare a “constitutional crime”.

----

Wednesday August 25th 2004

Data-processing: The international association Open Source Network, financed by the United Nations, publishes on Internet a user guide of the free software for submission to the emergent countries Yahoo Presence-PC.com Guide on the site of IOSN
Paris, France: culminating point of the commemorations of the Release of Paris in August 1944. A procession of military vehicles maintained by collectors reconstituted the entry of the French troops and states-uniennes ordered by the general Leclerc.
Russia: two planes of two companies different and left the Aéroport from Domodedovo to Moscow were crushed almost simultaneously in morning. The 90 passengers and team members died.

the intelligence services Russian (FSB) initially announced to seek the cause in an human error in piloting or the fuel employed. The assumption of the terrorist attack was revealed later in the Russian media because of the context: the presidential election must take place the next weekend in the federate republic of Chetchnia. Certain journalists announced that one of the planes had as a destination Sotchi, city on the Black Sea, where the Russian president Vladimir Poutine spent his holidays.
the terrorist assumption was confirmed by the presence of explosives in the remains of the apparatuses, the reservation of a ticket at the last time by a woman born in Chetchnia, not-complaint by the families of the bodies of women tchetchenes, and the claim by a group named the Brigades of Islambuli. This group is related to Al-Qaida.
the chief of the independence rebels tchetchene, Aslan Maskhadov, denied any implication of its movement in these events.

Mark Thatcher, the son of the former British Prime Minister, is stopped in South Africa. It is shown to have financed with Lebanese the Ely Calil an coup attempt of State in Guinea Equatoriale, oil-producing country, to reverse the president Teodoro Obiang. The operation would have been organized by MI6.

----

Thursday August 26th 2004

Chile: The Supreme court of Chile raised the immunity of old the dictator Augusto Pinochet; this immunity rose from its function of senator with life. It could be judged in Chile for the crimes that it is shown to have made or have ordered while it was with the capacity. This lifting relates to in particular its implication in the Plan Condor.
New York, the United States: died in the night of the singer Laura Branigan at the 47 years age. Its death would be due to an aneurysmal rupture without certainty. It had been known in particular for its tube Gloria in 1982. Article on New Obs.

----

Friday August 27th 2004

Saturday August 28th 2004

Iraq: the chain Al-Jazira diffused a video proving that both Journaliste S French disappeared in Iraq alive and are retained as hostages by a group named the Islamic army of Iraq. This group threatens to so kill the two hostages in the 48 hours, the French government does not abolish the law prohibiting the open religious signs in the schools.

the two removed French journalists the August 20th are Georges Malbrunot newspapers Figaro and Ouest-France , and Christian Chesnot of the public radio RFI.
the Islamic army of Iraq asserted the assassination three days earlier of a journalist Italy N, Enzo Baldoni, removed the August 19th.
the law on the prohibition of the religious signs in the schools aims for its originators at reinforcing the principle of Laïcité in the French schools. It must come into effect at the time of the re-entry of the classes, Thursday September 2nd 2004.
Sunday August 29th, several Ministers for the French government met in urgency. The Foreign Minister, Michel Barnier started the following day a round of country of the the Middle East to obtain the official support their governments, while its general secretary went to Baghdad.

Data-processing World, : First international day of freedom Software it, supported by FSF and OSI, relayed by the IOSN (associate with the Program of the the United Nations for the development).

----

Sunday August 29th 2004

Afghanistan, car bomb attack, with Kabul, making at least 12 died and about thirty casualties. The Talibans aimed at the company of American safety Dyncorps, which deals with the protection of the Afghan president Hamid Karzai.
Olympic Games of summer of 2004, Athens, Greece: closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. The next plays will take place in 2006 with Turin (Italy) (plays of winter) and then in 2008 with Beijing (China) (plays of summer).

Site of the Italian Steering Committee (in French)
Site of the Chinese Steering Committee (in French)

Formula 1: By finishing second behind Finnish Kimi Räikkönen of the Grand Prix of Belgium disputed with Spa-Francorchamps, German Michael Schumacher obtains a seventh championship of the world of Formule 1.
Chetchnia, Russia: presidential election in this republic of the Federation of Russia. The voters must elect the successor of Akhmad Kadyrov, died in an bomb attack in May 2004.

the election takes place in a country always marked by the conflict opposing the freedom fighters tchetchenes to the federal capacity. For example, on August 21st, about thirty supposed members of the militia tchetchene recruited by Moscow were killed with a fake roadblock control by men out of lattice. The Russian soldiers installed with 200 meters from there did not react to the shots.
the winner of the election is the police officer Alou Alkhanov and with the favor of the Russian president Vladimir Poutine.

Wikipédia : this Sunday, the encyclopedia with crossed the course of the 50.000 articles!

----

Monday August 30th 2004

New York, the United States: opening of the convention of the Republican party to designate their candidate with the presidential election of November 2004. It takes place with the Madison Square Garden.

the current president George Bush should be indicated, with for colisitier the vice-president Dick Cheney. The voters will have to choose between this republican ticket, the democratic ticket (John Kerry and John Edwards), and the ticket independent of Ralph Nader and Peter Miguel Camejo.
the opponents with president Bush started since the beginning of August of the protest demonstrations against its policy.

the edition 2004 of the World cup of Hockey begins today until September 14th, 2004.

----

Tuesday August 31st 2004

Lebanon: After the intrusion of Damas in the choice of the future Lebanese President, the France and the the United States invited the Safety advice UNO to vote for a resolution to incite the Syria to return its sovereignty to the Lebanon, which it has directed “like a stronghold of the family Assad for twenty-eight years”, The Wall Street Journal recalls.

----

Zh-min-nan: 2004 nor 8 goe̍h

Random links: