the éphéméride | All on March and 2004

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Monday the 1st er March 2004

  • Europe: According to a revealed study day before in London by the movement Greenpeace, wind energy produced at sea, or “off - Shore”, could fill one the third of the total requirements in electricity for all Europe in 2020.

  • In France:

    • Opening to Paris of the lawsuit of 11 Breton separatist fighters . The lawsuit intends to judge 17 attacks of which that of the Mac Donald's of Quévert (Coast-with Armor) which had cost the life an employee.
    • Coming into effect of new the Driving license probatory.
  • Belgium: Opening of the lawsuit of the paedophile Marc Dutroux called the monster of Charleroi and its three alleged accomplices, in front of the Court of Assizes of Arlon. The lawsuit should last at least two months. It will have to answer of the removal and the rape of six young girls as well as death of four of them. See Business Marc Dutroux.
  • Russia: The president Vladimir Poutine, names Mikhaïl Fradkov, like new Prime Minister to replace Mikhaïl Kassianov, dismissed the last February 24th. The new Prime Minister occupied before the station of special representative near the European Union.

  • the United States: According to the American drug company, the United States, which does not impose limit on the prices of the drugs, would assume a disproportionate share of the costs of research and development of the new molecules in the world.

  • In Haiti:

    • the president Jean-Bertrand Aristide arrives at Bangui at the Central Africa, and states to have been thorough with the resignation by the French and American ambassadors, then to have been victim of a “ modern removal ”.
    • the first French marines American and soldiers started to spread themselves in Haiti to restore the order there, yesterday, while the armed rebels who contributed to the fall of the president were acclaimed in the capital Port-au-Prince.
    • a controversy opened on the conditions of the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The White House, the Pentagon and the secretariat of State made common front to contradict allegations according to which the United States, would have forced it on Saturday night to leave the country with the point of rifle.
  • Iraq: The “ administrative Loi of transition ” is adopted by the members of IGC. It is supposed to make it possible to start to manage the country until the adoption of the new Constitution, planned for the end 2005.
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Tuesday March 2nd 2004

  • In France: Thirteen years ago, Serge Gainsbourg had come to its admirors that it from went away… It would have been 76 years old in one month.
  • Serbia: The new Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica constitutes a government including/understanding 19 members.

  • the United States:

    • At the time of the Super tuesday, of the primary educations for the race with the democratic nomination with the presidential election, takes place in ten States. The candidate John Kerry gains 9 of the 10 primary educations.
    • Bernie Ebbers, ex-p. - d.g of the telephone operator in WorldCom bankruptcy, was accused yesterday by American justice, more than 18 months after what remains the most resounding countable fraud of the history of the United States.
  • Haiti: The United States exhorted yesterday the insurrectionists and the “Dreams” pro-Aristide to be disarmed, after a threat of the first to be caught some to the militia of the former Haitian president.

  • Iraq: Bloody day in Iraq, ten Attentat S anti Shiite made on the whole 204 died and 556 wounded, including 33 died in the Shiite quarters of Kazimiya to Baghdad and 171 died in the Shiite holy city of Kerbala. These attacks coinciding with the day more crowned for this majority community in this country.

  • Space:

    • NASA announces that there exist strong indication of old presence of water according to the base of observations collected by the small robot Opportunity in its zone of exploration. It had been posed at the end of January on red planet, little time after its twin, Spirit.
    • Kourou, Guyana: ARIANE 5 finally took off successfully of the space base of Kourou to put in Orbite around the Sun the Sonde Rosetta, which will profit thus from the effect of gravitational sling to reach the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in ten years.

  • Sport:

    • According to the San Francisco Chronicle 7 important players of baseball whose champion Barry Bonds would have taken steroids and growth hormones of a laboratory implied in a distribution network of steroids, according to furnished informations with federal investigators.
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Wednesday March 3rd 2004

  • In France:
    • Refusing to follow the instructions of discretion of the ministry for the Interior, the newspaper the Dispatch of the South reveals that a mysterious terrorist group AZF threat the French rail network of attack and this, since the last December 11th. He asks for the State a sum of 4 million dollars and 1 million euros (past to 2 million euros since February 20th), under penalty of exploding ten bombs which he affirms to have dispersed on the French rail network.
      • legal information had been open on February 18th, and on February 21st a very sophisticated explosive device had been discovered on the Paris-Toulouse way, with Folles close to Limoges in High-Vienna.
      • a campaign checking of the 32.000 kilometers rail of the French rail network is made, in which took part more than 10.000 railwaymen. This examination did not give any result.
    • the Senate votes in its turn the project of Loi on the port of the religious signs at the school.
    • the constitutional council censures the law Perben 2 out of two points which relate to organized criminality and the conditions of pleading guilty.

  • Canada: The Québécois Block and a coalition of environmental groups exhorts the federal government to withdraw its support with the project of widening of the Sea route of the St. Lawrence.

  • the United States: The senator John Edwards officially announced yesterday his abandonment of the race to the democratic nomination for presidential American of next November and made act of allegiance to his “friend” John Kerry, victorious of the democratic camp.
  • Haiti:
    • Arrived of new French forces in the island. The chief of the rebels announced in the 20 hour old neighborhoods (French hour) to have deposited the weapons.
    • a crowd is delirious about it destroyed Tuesday afternoon works of the Musée of Haitian art with Port-au-Prince, that the insurrectionists threw over the balcony of their new general headquarter.

  • In Turkey:

    • the British Minister for the Foreign affairs Jack Straw promises “ all its support ” for the candidature of accession of Turkey for the European Union.
    • In front of foreign journalists, the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declares: “ the entry of Turkey will change the definition of the European Union. It will show, in particular with the Muslim world, that the European Union is neither a Christian club, nor a simple economic association, but a union of political values, a space in which all the values are accepted ”.

  • Economy:

    • the Belgian brewer Interbrew, becomes the world number one of beer by acquiring Brazilian AmBev, within the framework of a mégatransaction of 11,4 billion $US. Profits of 342 $US million will be carried out annually in various economies and new incomes.
      • Interbrew sells some 200 marks, of which Labatt Bleue, Stella Artois, Leffe and Bass. AmBev is the most important brewer in Brazil with 66% of the shares of fourth plus significant market in the world in the sector of beer, thanks to two dozen marks, of which Skol, Brahma and Antarctica.
    • At the time of the annual meeting of Walt Disney, held with Philadelphia, the leadership of Michael Eisner with the head of the company was harshly put to the test, when 43% shareholders abstained from voting in its favor
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Thursday March 4th 2004

  • France: Death with Paris, of the French singer and Toulouse poet Claude Nougaro at the 74 years age of the continuations of a cancer. It recorded the album " at that time; The note bleue" who finally left in October the same year.

  • the United States: The republican camp of the president George W. Bush launched yesterday a media massive onslaught in several American States where it is likely to be put in difficulty by the democrat John Kerry at the time of the presidential next November.

  • Venezuela: New access of violence in the west of the country, whereas the calm one reigned in the capital after the resumption of negotiations on a referendum against the president Hugo Chávez.
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Friday March 5th 2004

  • With the the United States:

    • Lawsuit SCO against IBM: the judge Brooke Wells orders with the two companies to provide in the 45 days of the Source code and documentation. (USA Today Article)
    • Martha Stewart, 62 years, presenter high-speed motorboat of the American chains, businesswoman, and diva of art of living in the United States, was recognized guilty yesterday of the four counts of indictment who still weighed against it (plot, obstruction with justice and two chiefs for false claims). It risks twenty years of prison.
  • Haiti: The Canadian Armed forces will deploy some 450 soldiers and six helicopters within the framework of the multinational force charged to restore the safety of the country. and whose United States took the command.

  • Iraq:

    • the Iraqi leaders missed a new expiry to yesterday sign the Provisional constitution because of dissensions on an article of the text, but the discussions continue.
    • an Iraqi who worked as translator for the American public radio the Voice of America was killed by ball.
  • the Libya admits having stored 20.000 kilograms of Mustard gas. (Article of Nouvel Observateur)

  • Human rights: Irene Khan general secretary of Amnesty International, lance little before the day woman a campaign “Halt with violence against the woman”. (Countryside on the site of Amnesty)

  • Data-processing: presentation of the larger fourth Supercomputer of Spain at the University of Valence. (Advertisement on the site of the university)
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Saturday March 6th 2004

  • France: With Dijon, demonstration against the law Fountain for a free Internet.

  • Israel-Palestine :

    • Double attack-suicide of 2 Palestinian police officers against a station of the Israeli army at the point of passage of Erez: the 2 Palestinian police officers are killed.
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Sunday March 7th 2004

  • Austria: Regional elections in Carinthie and in the Land of Salzburg.
    • In Carinthie, the voters, contrary to the forecasts, again gives the victory of the populist party FPÖ of Jörg Haider, with 42,5% of the voices.
    • In the Land of Salzburg, the social democrats of SPÖ carries it with 45,9% of the voices.
  • Greece: Legislative elections, which it victory of the party of the New Democracy (right liberal), with 45,9% of the voices compared with 40,5% with the Socialists of PASOK of Georges Papandreou with the capacity since 1993. The ND leader, Kóstas Karamanlís, should become new the Prime Minister.

  • Haiti: Shootings burst yesterday at the time of a demonstration in which several thousands of Haitians took part in Port-au-Prince to celebrate the departure of the president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and to claim his lawsuit for corruption.

  • Israel-Palestine : The Israeli army engages an operation in the camps of El-Boureij and Nusseirat, located at the center of the Gaza Strip: 15 Palestinian is killed.

  • Economy: According to To ballast Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, Washington, and qualified by the Washington Post like “ one of the largest thinkers of the planet ”, the climate changes and the fall of water reserves for agriculture in the world will cause, within two years, a true food crisis in the whole world which will destabilize the poor countries and the financial markets and will make climb the price of food.

  • Sport S:

    • Cycling. Departure of the sixty-second edition of the Paris-Nice in France.
      • the 8, the second phase is gained by Spanish Pedro Horrillo.
      • the 9, the third stage is gained by Dutch Leon Van Bon. German Jorg Jaksche always dominates the race.
      • the 10, the fourth stage of the race is cancelled because of snow.
    • In Australia: First Grand Prix of season 2004 of Formula 1. gained by Michael Schumacher in front of her team-member Rubens Barrichello and Spanish Fernando Alonso.
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Monday March 8th 2004

  • France: Literary row between Bernard Pivot, literary pope of the small screen, large officer of the emissions “ Apostrophe ” and “ Culture medium ” and from now on to the bar of a not less famous annual dictation and the academician Maurice Druon, author of the “ cursed Kings ”, in connection with the quality of the French language.

  • Iraq: The 25 members of the government council (executive provisional) signed the “ administrative Loi of transition ”, (Provisional constitution), negotiated under the vigilant eye of the occupying powers American and British. It is disputed and criticized by large the Ayatollah Al-Sistani, influence religious Shiite, just as by close Turkey.

  • Iran: Mohamed El Baradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared yesterday “ extremely worried ” by omissions of Iran aiming at hiding part of its nuclear activities: “ If this nation is obstinated not to respect its signature, the Safety advice will certainly be seized by the question of imposing an embargo ”.

  • Health: According to a study of the National Institutes for American Health (NIH), many lives could be saved, if the use of a plantable automatic defibrillator, generally reserved to the high-risk patients of cardiac sudden death having already had an important ventricular arrhythmia, should be widened to the people suffering from cardiac failure.

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Tuesday March 9th 2004

  • UNO: in official visit with Ottawa with the Canada, the general secretary Kofi Annan calls with a revival of UNO, and asks the international community to show patience in Haiti. It drew up an extremely critical portrait of UNO: “ My approach is multilateralist. From this point of view, we did not succeed very well. We also failed in our research solution the hunger, the disease, the serious violations of the human rights and the environmental pollution ”.

  • In France:

    • Two thousand researchers, considering “ completely insufficient ” the promise of the government to resolve 3 billion euros over 3 years starting from 2005, resign their administrative offices (directors of units, foremen) to protest against the fall of the means of the Scientific research. They are primarily researchers of CNRS, INSERM and INRA.
    • Last nine people are stopped then slackened in the business of the attacks against the Préfet Aïssa Dermouche.

  • Argentinian: the Argentinian government decided in extremis to pay the expiry of 3,1 billion $US due to the Fonds international currency, which will avoid to him putting itself with respect to the IMF in situation of non-payment as it is it already towards its private creditors.

  • Rwanda: the antiterrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere buckled the instruction on the crash landing of the plane of president Habyarimana, on April 6th, 1994. The final report, charges for it the responsibility to the patriotic Front Rwandan (FPR) for the Kagame general, today with the capacity with Kigali.

  • Iraq: Violence redoubled since the adoption of the Provisional constitution which engaged the countdown for the transfer of the capacity to the Iraqis but also caused the grogne of the Shiites. An American soldier was killed in the north of Baghdad, two civilians American working for the coalition and their Iraqi interpreter was assassinated, like several Iraqis, as a majority of the police officers.

  • Sports:

    • Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, sailor Picardy 58 years, finishes a round the world tour as a recluse against the dominant winds and currents, buckled in 122 days, 14 hours, 3 minutes and 49 seconds, and beating the old held record, by Philippe Monnet in 151 days.
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Marriage Between Guillaume Aubel and Aurore Nicolas!

Wednesday March 10th 2004

  • Europe: the Germany announces an easing, even a suppression, measurements which it had set up at the border posts between the two countries for Friday. These measurements actuated enormous stoppers (up to 20 km!) and affected the life of the frontier and the trade installed on both sides of the border.
  • In France:
    • Ten thousand people paid a last homage to Claude Nougaro at the time of his celebrated funerals with Toulouse, in its birthplace.
    • According to “the Duck connected”, of the phone-tappings would have been applied to the court of Caen since five years.

  • the United States: Wall Street knows its heavier fall of the year, announcing that the market enters a phase of correction awaited at the conclusion of spectacular a one year flight. The macroeconomic breaking news proved to be disappointing, on the labor market and the new trade deficit record of 43,1 billion $US.

  • Quebec:
    • the Québécois government intends to less revise the grid of selection of the candidates to immigration in order to miser on the academics and to accommodate more technicians and operations.
    • 22e International festival of film on art (FIFA).
    • 10.000 patients reached of breast cancer who, since October 13rd, 1997, could receive neither a treatment of radiotherapy, nor a treatment of chemotherapy within eight week following their last surgery, were authorized to deposit an collective appeal by the Superior court of Quebec.
  • Haiti:
    • the new Haitian Prime Minister, was declared in favor of the formation of a large government of national union and disarmament of the country.
    • a South-African delegation met the former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Central African Republic, with an aim of examining the possibilities of its reception in South Africa. This last wants to bring a lawsuit in France and the United States for removal.

  • Iraq:

    • violence redoubled since the adoption of the Provisional constitution which engaged the countdown for the transfer of the capacity to the Iraqis but also caused the grogne of the Shiites. An American soldier was killed Tuesday in the north of Baghdad, two American civilians working for the coalition and their Iraqi interpreter was assassinated, like several Iraqis, as a majority of the police officers.
    • Death of Abou Abbas, whose true name is Mohammad Abbas, which would have succumbed, according to the Pentagon, with an heart attack. Abou Abbas had been at the origin of the diversion in 1985 of the Italian steamer Achille Lauro . It had been captured by the American forces in Iraq little time after the fall of Baghdad, in April 2003. International Mail.
  • Iran: The Iranian Minister for the Foreign affairs, Kamal Kharazi, threatened yesterday to break with IAEA while reproaching Europeans for having yielded to the American pressures on a draft Resolution criticizing Teheran
  • Libya: With Vienna, with the seat of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Libyan government signs the additional protocol with the safeguards agreement of the Traité nuclear non-proliferation.

  • Zimbabwe: The Minister of Interior Department Kembo Mohadi shows the American, British secret services and Spanish to have helped of the mercenaries supposed held with Harare and shown to have prepared a takeover by force against the government of Guinea Equatoriale.

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Thursday March 11th 2004

  • European Union: The Protocole of Kyoto came into effect yesterday to Europe, fascinating effect legal for the first time in part of the sphere which is defined from now on as the environmental leader of planet.
Laws were also adopted which authorize the implementation faster protocol of Kyoto with all its obligations, like those to submit a report of progress or the failure of the policies in place

  • In France:

    • a vessel fishing of Saint-Malo, “ the Armand ” runs body and goods, with its four members of the crew, in the south of the coasts of Cornouailles, in one of the rare zones of the English Channel, not supervised by the radar. A large cargo liner, could have éperonné it then to be fled.
    • Celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of the Civil code French. Promulgated in March 1804, the French Civil code is a monument of the history of the French right by covering, in the same text, the right of the family, property, contracts and responsibility. This bicentenary revêt an particular importance not only for France, but also for good number of other countries where the Napoleon Code was introduced.
    • the Raymond-Devos Grand Prix of the French language is allotted to the author Jean-Loup Dabadie in the presence of the humorist who gave his name to this distinction created in 2003.

  • In Spain:

    • At three days of the legislative elections, ten explosions in stations of Madrid (Atocha) and of its suburbs, kills 199 people and wound at least 1400 of them. Explosions are announced to the stations of suburban train in Atocha (great rail junction of the south of Madrid), Santa Eugenia, Asamblea of Madrid and El Pozo.
    • Curieusement, without any convincing element and claim, the government of the Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar however immediately allots them to the ETA, as if he wanted to benefit from the occasion to make a political blow at three days of the elections, that he however approached in favorable situation.
    • the political official of Batasuna, prohibited political party considered as the political branches of the ETA, denies any participation of the movement in the attacks. The modus operandi does not correspond besides, the ETA generally preventing a few minutes before its attacks.
    • a London daily newspaper in Arab language would have received a claim coming from the “Brigades Abou Hafs Al-Masri/al-Qaïda” members of the organization Al-Qaïda, without this claim being able to still be attested.
    • the discovery of a bomb not exploded in one of the broken trains makes it possible “to open new tracks of investigation”.
    • Since London, the spiritual leader of the islamist group Al-Mouhadjiroun, Omar Bakri, suggests that the Italy could be the next target one.

  • the United States: The Supreme court of California ordered the dead halt of the homosexual marriages with San Francisco, whereas the conservatives had battled for one month to obtain a decision in this direction. The court did not come to a conclusion about the legality of such unions, whereas more than 3700 couples were plain.

  • Quebec: The Prime Minister Jean Charest presents his governmental action plan for the four next years, which will be used as discussion paper for 19 regional forums which will be held mid-April mid-June.

  • Rwanda: UNO announced yesterday that it would give to independent investigators a block box which had been given to him after the fall of a plane in which the Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana had been killed in 1994, which had started a genocide.

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Friday March 12th 2004

  • Denmark: The “ free city ” of Christiana, den the marginal ones with Copenhagen, will lose the 1 {{er}} January 2006 its statute special of alternative community since its creation in 1971, decided the government Danish liberal-conservative yesterday.
  • Spain:
    • an immense demonstration against terrorism, joins together with Madrid an huge crowd. In all Spain, more than 8 million people are gone down in the streets.
    • the ETA contradicted yesterday any responsibility in the terrorist massacre for Madrid, that the Spanish government had allotted to him in spite of a claim allotted to Al-Qaïda. The Minister of Interior Department admitted that the investigation had opened with “new tracks”, while affirming to privilege that of ETA.
      • an antiterrorist source affirmed that the explosive “was not a usual explosive of ETA” but an explosive of a “other terrorist group related to Islamism”.
      • Discovered of an audio cassette with verses of Coran and seven detonators in a stolen van with Alcala de Henares, 30 kilometers of Madrid, starting point of the trains broken by the bombs.
      • According to radio operator Cadena Ser, the explosive of the thirteenth bomb would be plastic “Special C” made in Spain by the old company Rio Tinto, and not of the “Titadyn”, usual mark of ETA. The detonators connected on the telephone would be also Spanish manufacture.

  • Russia: The president Vladimir Poutine commits himself to double the GDP and reducing poverty. The Russian growth is one of strongest of the planet (7,3% in 2003), the overseas investments took off and political stability is completed.

  • Haiti: Bernard Latortue is appointed new provisional Prime Minister.

  • South Korea: A campaign tending to show the president Roh Moo-hyun of corruption develops with such a point that the National Assembly suspends it her functions and replaces it by the Prime Minister Goh Kun. In fact, the president had given in February 2004 his support for his new party URI (for the elections of April), which is an infringement with the South Korean electoral code.

  • Bahrain: Hundreds of men and women islamist, express in the streets of the capital Al Manama, against the success of TV-reality in the Arab countries and require the stop of a TV program, “Al-Ray”, Arab the “Loft Story” (“Big Brother”), adapted and diffused by the satellite television channel “MBC”. It will obtain win as of next Tuesday.

Saturday March 13rd 2004

  • Austria: the socialist (SPÖ) of the Land of Carinthie, with the agreement of the national management of their party, sign an government agreement with Jörg Haider, governor outgoing (FPÖ, Extrême right-hand side).
  • Spain: The Minister of Interior Department, Ángel Acebes, announced the arrest of 3 people of Moroccan origin and 2 people of Indian origin, within the framework of the investigation on the attacks of Madrid.

  • the United States: Luciano Pavarotti, 68 years, gave its last representation to the Metropolitan Opera New York. The Italian tenor, who occurred in Tosca, made it clear that it could also be a question of his ultimate appearance on a scene.

  • Afghanistan: Launching by the Americans of the operation “ Storm in mountain ”, in the mountainous areas pachtounes, along the border with the Pakistan.

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Sunday March 14th 2004

  • France: The Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, put forth the assumption to sell part of the gold reserves of the Banque de France to reduce the public deficit. France is the third larger holder world with 3000 tons for a value of 31 billion euros. Part of this gold is used as guarantee during the euro.

  • In Spain:

    • the Spanish working Socialist party (PSOE), which was not given favorite before the drama of Thursday, largely gains these legislative elections, marked by the polemic over the attitude of the government of Jose Maria Aznar following the attacks of March 11th, 2004. The PSOE obtains 43% of the voices in front of the Popular party (37,5%) which had been with the capacity for eight years.
    • Mr. Aznar will be replaced soon by Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero like chair government. Thus the islamist terrorists of the mobility of Al-Qaïda succeeded, to influence the electoral poll of a large country, but the Spanish voters initially wanted to sanction the lie of a government which was however given favorite.
  • Russia: The outgoing president Vladimir Poutine gains massively with 71,2% of the voices, the presidential election for a four years mandate.
    • the conditions of course of these elections are criticized by the Organization for safety and the co-operation in Europe (SOEC). Sight the inequality of access to the media, uncertainty related especially to the rate of participation which in Russia must exceed the 50% so that the election is validated.
  • the Vatican: the pontificate of the pope Jean-Paul II becomes, by exceeding that of Leon XIII, the longer second of the history (third if one grants to Saint Pierre the first place).

  • Israel-Palestine : Double attack-suicide in the Israeli port of Ashbod, both asserted by the Hamas and the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs: 11 Israelis killed as well as the two kamikazes.

  • Sports:

    • Ski:
      • Suédoise Anja Pärson, 22 years, buckled one sensational season by gaining the general classification of the World cup of ski, after a course without fault at the time of this season 2003-2004. She added the large crystal ball of general classification, with those of the slalom and the giant slalom.
      • the Canadian team of hot-dogging is great gaining season 2003-2004 este gains the cut in front of the France
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Monday March 15th 2004

  • Canada/Turkish islands and Caïques: A multi-party parliamentary committee as well as a group of people of businesses is created to prepare the possible union between Canada and the Turkish islands and Caïques in the the Caribbean. This project started in the Années 1970. These tropical islands could become the 11th province of Canada.
  • Haiti - Jamaica: the former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide makes a surprised arrival with Kingston, capital of Jamaica (makes the other part of the island of it. The new government considering, in the current location, this reception like a provocation, decides to freeze its diplomatic relations with close Jamaica.

  • Georgia: the situation is tightened with the province secessionist of Adjarie. The Georgian president Mikheil Saakachvili was seen preventing from entering there. It set up a economic Blocus of the province.

  • Astronomy: astronomers of NASA announced the discovery, presented like that of a tenth Planet, of a new planetoid baptized 90377 Sedna. This one would revolve on a strongly elliptic orbit, distant of more than 10 billion kilometers the Sun, i.e. 3 billion kilometers more than that of Pluton and would have a diameter of almost 2000 km. This discovery starts again the debate on the minimal size so that an object is regarded as Planet, certain scientists affirming that even Pluton is too small to be classified like such. Moreover, it is beyond the Ceinture of Kuiper presented like the limit of the solar system.

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Tuesday March 16th 2004

  • In France: the media received a letter (1 2) of an unknown terrorist group threatening France of attacks on its ground or abroad.
  • Lithuania: with Vilnius, opening of the lawsuit of Bertrand Cantat, singer of the French group Black Desire, accused for blows having resulted in death (homicide) of his/her partner Marie Trintignant.
  • Russia: an gas explosion with Arkhangelsk makes 44 dead. This catastrophe hardly intervenes two days after the fire which devastated the equestrian Manège of Moscow.

  • Saudi Arabia: the police force with cut down Khaled Haj, which would be the person in charge of Al-Qaïda for the area of the Persian Gulf. In parallel, the security forces Algérie did not indicate to have eliminated seventeen islamist members from the Groupe salafist for preaching and the combat.

  • Israel-Palestine : following the double attack-suicide of February 14th in the Israeli port of Ashbod, the Israeli army launch actions of reprisals in the Gaza Strip.
  • Pakistan: the Pakistani forces launch a new operation in the south of the Waziristan.
  • Syria: Kurdish confrontations opposing and police force these last days in the North-East of Syria, in particular in the two towns of Hassaké and Qamichli, made 19 died, 150 wounded and of the important property damages. These disorders gained the area of Alep (north-western), making three died among the Kurds who expressed with the memory of the victims of the perpetrated chemical bombardments 16 years ago with Halabja (Iraq) by the mode of Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of Kurds were stopped at the time of these days.

  • China: Buildings of the navy of war Frenchwomen take part in joint operations with the navy of Chinese war, on a maritime zone with broad of Qingdao, to 1250 km with broad of the northern point of Taiwan.

  • In Africa:

    • diplomatic Tension between the Guinea Equatoriale and the Cameroun which pointed out its ambassador to protest against the exactions of which would have been victims of the Cameronian nationals on behalf of the Guinean police force.
    • With the Rwanda, the president Paul Kagame shows the France to be implied in the genocide of 1994.
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Wednesday March 17th 2004

  • Spain: Jose Maria Aznar, the former Prime Minister and chief of the Spanish government, is in the middle of a scandal. It is shown to have tried to handle the press groups in their affirming the morning even Attentats in Madrid of March 11th, 2004 that those had been financed by the ETA. international Mail.
  • Greece: a violent one Earthquake of magnitude 6,3 shook the Crete.
  • Kosovo, Mitrovica: An Albanian demonstration degenerates has Mitrovicë/Mitrovica in the north of Kosovo. When the force soldiers of NATO (KFOR) and organizes it UNO try to take again the situation under control, the city and already in catch with scenes of urban guerilla warfare. The violence of the intervention of the international force causes a chain reaction through all Kosovo. Quickly joined high-school pupils not more 50  000 Albanians express their dissatisfaction with violence utilisee by the international forces with Mitrovicë/Mitrovica. In some hours these demonstrations degenerate into anti-Serb riots. The Serb community becomes the target of attacks in principal the city of the area.
Assessment: 19 people died - eleven Albanians and eight Serb - and more than 1000 were wounded; some 730 houses belonging to minorities, the Serb ones of Kosovo for the majority, like 36 churches, monasteries and other sites cultural or religious orthodoxe were damaged or destroyed. In less than 48 hours, 4100 people belonging at minority communities joined the displaced persons.

    • These confrontations make following the drowning of three Albanian children in the river separating the two communities. The Albanians show Serb to have made these acts in reprisals with the hold-up of a Serb teenager with Caglavica. The local mediums will be largely blamed by UNO and the SOEC in the escalation of violence. It will be shown to have exacerbated the situation by affirming information not checked on deaths of the three children.

Bond: http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/fraEUR700062005?open&of=fra-2eu

  • the United States:

    • By gaining the primary educations of the Illinois, the senator John Kerry from now on is ensured of the democratic nomination for the presidential of September.
    • the republican vice-president Dick Cheney launched an attack yesterday regulates of it against the democratic candidate John Kerry, considering it too weak and inconstant on the main road questions of security to assume the presidency of the United States.

  • Iraq:

    • an car bomb attack destroys the hotel Mount Lebanon in the center of Baghdad the day before the first birthday of the war: 19 killed people and 45 wounded.
    • Of the mortar shells was drawn on military bases, killing three American soldiers and by wounding nine others. That changes to 567 the official number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since the release of the war, on March 20th, 2003.
    • an Iraqi cameraman of the television channel Al-Arabiya with Dubai was killed accidentally yesterday evening in Baghdad by American shootings and a journalist, also Iraqi, was seriously wounded, indicated to one their colleagues.
    • the archbishop of the Catholic church chaldéenne of Erbil (northern), estimates that protesting “proselytism” and the threats of islamist weigh on the future of the Christian churches of Iraq.
  • Pakistan: With Islamabad, visit of the American Secretary of State Colin Powell to grant to Pakistan the statute “ major ally not-NATO ”.
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Thursday March 18th 2004

  • France: Diffusion in the night from March 18th to 19th, of the Trophies of the French language, recorded with the Quoted of Sciences of the Villette to Paris, and animated by Bernard Pivot, to reward the talent, work, the culture, humor, the imagination of all those which, to all levels, contribute to vivify the French language and to make of it an international vector of communication, education, creation and culture.
  • Poland: The Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski estimates that stabilization is sufficiently on the right track so that it can hope to rather withdraw his troops at the beginning than in the middle of the next year. Poland orders a multinational force of 9500 men, including 2400 Pole, in the center-south of the country. It ensures that “ that has nothing to do with the attacks of March 11th in Madrid ”, and thinks “ that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is much better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein ”, “ But naturally, I feel also badly at ease owing to the fact that we were induced in error by the information on the weapons of massive destruction ”.

  • In the United States, the Utah removes the possibility offered to the condemned to dead to choose between the Firing squad and the Lethal injection. From now on only the lethal injection will be practiced. Nevertheless, condemned, not yet carried out, having chosen the group will have passed by the weapons.

  • Pakistan: the number two of Al-Qaïda, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, would be encircled by the army in the tribal zone of the country. The president Mousharraf does not confirm the name of the target, but confirms the existence of fierce combats in the area.

  • Thailand: on a journey in this country, the president Suisse Joseph Deiss started preliminary discussions in the name of the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in order to conclude an agreement from free trade between these four countries of Western Europe and the Thailand by the end of the year.

  • Astronomy: To 22:8 YOU, the Asteroid 2004 FH , measuring 30 meters, passed to 43  000 kilometers of the surface of the Earth. It is the first time that one detects an asteroid with less 80  000 kilometers, but it is estimated that such an asteroid passes very close to the Earth at this distance every two years.

  • Economy: With New York, the price of the crude barrel for delivery in April, a record with 38,18 US dollars beats, unequalled since October 16th 1990. Analysts predict it with 40 US dollars if OPEC does not change its policy, whereas it ensures, with 24 million barrels per day, a third of the worldwide market.
    • According to the Minister for the energy of Qatar, the current courses are not due to a shortage but only to the play of the speculations, and the political disturbances of the the Middle East and Venezuela, and according to OPEC, there is no economic reason to increase the production.

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Friday March 19th 2004

  • In France: FAI Free announces the extension of its telephone service via Freebox, with all the subscribers ADSL, including in not dégroupées zones.
  • Quebec: Belle Province is the third of the Canada (after the Ontario and the Colombia-British) to authorize the homosexual marriage by a decision of the Court of Appeal of Quebec déboutant the catholic League for the human rights which defended the traditional definition of the marriage.

  • Azerbaïdjan : the Azeri president decided to release or from rejuger all the political prisoners.

  • Georgia: following a meeting between the Georgian president Mikheil Saakachvili and chair it autonomous province of Adjarie, using the mediation of the the Council of Europe, an agreement allowing the regular behavior of the next legislative elections was found.
  • Iraq: For the first birthday of the Iraqi conflict, thousands of citizens expressed in the streets of the large world capitals to stress their anger against the US president George W. Bush and to claim the end of the Iraqi occupation, in spite of unquestionable breathlessness of the movement
  • Taiwan: The day before the presidential election and referendum on the relations with the China, an attempted murder, wounded by bullets, the outgoing president Chen Shui-bian and the outgoing vice-president Annette Lu. The poll is maintained.
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Saturday March 20th 2004

  • international Day of the Francophonie with very many demonstrations (804 in 2003) organized throughout the world, in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, Indian Ocean and the Middle East, to celebrate the French language and the French-speaking cultures of the 180 million people who speak French in the world.

  • In France, death of the journalist and writer Yvan Audouard, collaborator with the Duck connected , at the 90 years age. Article on Nouvel Obs.

  • Netherlands: Death at 6 o'clock in the morning, the princess Juliana, at the 94 years age, “of the continuations of a pneumonia combined in a state of great general weakness”. Born on April 30th 1909, girl of the queen Wilhelmine, it was queen of September 1948 at January 1980, and mother of the current queen Beatrix. Biography.

  • With Taiwan:

    • presidential Election disputed which sees the outgoing president Chen Shui-bian (independence) gaining the presidential election with 50,11% of the voices. The result was disputed at once by the party of the opposition, the Kuomintang and the High court of Taiwan ordered the following day the setting under seals of the ballot boxes.
    • On the other hand, the referendum on the relations with the China is cancelled because of a participation lower than 50%.
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Sunday March 21st 2004

  • In France:
    • Death at the 80 years age, the dancer, choreographer, metteuse in scene and actress, Ludmila Tcherina.
    • Death at the 90 years age, of the journalist, film writer and scenario writer Yvan Audouard.
    • First turn of the cantonal regional elections and which sees the announced defeat of UMP, party to the government.
      • the voters had to renew the totality of the district councils in 21 areas of Metropolitan France, the territorial Parliament of Corsica and 4 district councils in the overseas departments.
      • is parallel to carried out the renewal of half of the general advisers.
      • the two types of poll will be the subject of a second round Sunday, March 28, except where an general adviser will have been elected as of the first turn where a district council will have been replaced as of the first turn.
  • Germany: Extraordinary congress of the Socialist party during which the chancellor in exercise Gerhard Schröder leaves in place with the head of the party with Franz Müntefering.
  • Spain: Jose Shine Rodríguez Zapatero, in authority of nomination like chair government, with continuation of the victory of PSOE to legislative of March 14th, decides, in a daily maintenance granted El Pais , for a radical change of the strategy followed to Iraq, with an assumption of responsibility of the situation by the United Nations, before the date envisaged of June 30th. It qualifies moreover the war in Iraq of “error” and the occupation of “disaster”.

  • Afghanistan: A hundred people were killed in confrontations between factions with Herat, in the west of the country, after the death of the Afghan Minister for the Civil aviation, Mirwais Sadiq, wire of the powerful governor of province Ismaïl Khan and kill by a RPG rocket which touched its car in the center of the city. It is the third minister with being killed since the installation of the Karzai government after the fall of the talibans, at the end of 2001.

  • Israel-Palestine :
    • At the time of an operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army, killed seven Palestinians, of which a local leader of Hamas and his wife.
    • Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ran up against criticisms of the ministers of its party, the Likoud, to which it presented his plan of separation of with the Palestinians.
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Monday March 22nd 2004

  • world Day of water: According to Canadian William Cosgrove, new president of the World council of water (CME), a very influential international agency in the U.N. mediums, this last discreetly made, during the last months, a major ideological turn which leads it to exchange its philosophy of water, “goods”, with the profit of a logic of basic right, defended up to now by the organizations citizens a little everywhere in the world, and this organization is from now on ready from now on to put its weight in the balance so that UNO recognizes the access to water like a basic right and that one marks out it by a charter, which would include/understand the principles following:
    • the access to water is a basic right and the governments have the responsibility to ensure the access to all of them.
    • the management of water must be a dominating public responsibility, and its methods of management and financing must recognize that the right of access with done everything an obligation to preserve the resource at the managers and users.
    • the management of water by the public authorities, must recognize with the communities the capacity to initially manage their watery inheritance, which also orders, of the responsibilities for fiduciary for the common resource and above all.
    • the public bodies should not hesitate to structure the transfers of richnesses within the companies while making pay water more expensive with the rich person than with the poor to concretize the right of access.
    • the management of water should not be limited to the problems of availability of the aqueous resource; it must also take account of the need for maintaining in life the ecosystems which depend on it and any puncture, including those of the assoiffés neighbors, cannot be justified if it proceeds of a logic of wasting and the additional punctures with the basic needs should be authorized only as ultimate solution, by an strict application of the precaution principle.

  • Afghanistan: The president Hamid Karzai sent yesterday reinforcements to Herat, theater the day before confrontations between the forces of the governor Ismaïl Khan and those of the commander of the garrison, named by Kabul, following the death of the Afghan Minister for the Civil aviation, Mirwais Sadiq.

  • Israel-Palestine : Sheik Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader and cofounder of the Hamas, 67 years old, blind and paraplegic, is killed during an operation of elimination targeted of the Israeli army, carried out by targeted shootings of helicopters, at the moment or the Sheik Ahmed Yassin left, of a mosque of Gaza. The raid made on the whole eight died and of the casualties.
    • This elimination generates a wave of indignation and of anger through everyone Moslem and most of the international community condemns this assassination.
    • the US president George W. Bush declares: “ Israel has the right to be defended vis-a-vis terrorism ”, but must “ take into account the consequences of its actions ”, and according to the adviser for the national security Condoleezza Rice “ the United States was not prevented ”.
    • the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said: “ It is the first of the Palestinian assassins… The war against terrorism is not finished and it will continue daily, everywhere… It is the right of the Jewish people to attack those which are drawn up to eliminate it. ”.
    • the Minister for Defense, Shaul Mofaz declares: “ It is Bin Laden Palestinian… Hamas is responsible for 425 attacks, which made 337 died and 2076 wounded, civil and military, and of 54 suicide bombings, which killed 288 people ”, “ the sheik Yassin sent to died of tens of young Palestinians while killing in the passing of tens of Israelis. It was accustomed to saying: Death does not frighten us, we aspire to martyrdom ”.
  • Lebanon: The Lebanese Hezbollah Shiite, “ Brigades of the martyr sheik Ahmed Yassin ”, bombarded yesterday in evening of the Israeli positions in the sector of the “farms of Chebaa”, with the Lebanon southern. The “farms of Chebaa” constitute a territorial band conquered by Israel on the Syria in 1967.
  • Pakistan: A truce was concluded in the south from the Waziristan in order to allow a mediation of the tribal chiefs, in order to try to tear off their rendering of approximately 500 islamist combatants of Al-Qaïda, besieged by the Pakistani army in this mountainous region of the country.

  • Malaysia: Following the victory of the government coalition to the legislative elections, the Supreme court ordered a partial recount in certain provinces which were until now of the islamist bastions.

  • El Salvador: Toni Saca gained the presidential election.
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Tuesday March 23rd 2004

  • Malta:
    • Resignation of the Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, in order to stand as a candidate to the succession of the president of the Republic Guido De Marco, whose mandate arrives in the long term in the current of the next week. One lends to the outgoing president the intention to aspire to the representation of Malta in the European Union.
    • the new Prime Minister is Lawrence Gonzi, him so resulting from the nationalist Parti, nephew of Mgr Michael Gonzi known as the Archbishop of iron , a long time privileged adversary of Labor the Prime Minister Dom Mintoff.
  • Sweden: Mijailo Mijailovic, was recognized guilty of the assassination, the September 10th, 2003 of the Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, and was condemned to the life imprisonment.

  • the United States: According to an alarmist report/ratio of the government and public authorities, the American secretary with the Treasury, John Snow announced that the cases of insurance-retirement and health for the third age are in the process of empty itself and the hospital cover will have even exhausted its funds within 15 years: “ Plus one will attack these problems early, less the solutions will be perturbing… Inertia is not a responsible option ”.

  • Afghanistan: Ismaïl Khan, the governor of the province of Hérat, gave yesterday a week to the president Hamid Karzai to stop the “fatal ” supposed of his/her son, the minister Mirwaïs Sadiq.

  • Israel-Palestine : Abdel Aziz Al-Rantissi was selected to succeed the Sheik Ahmed Yassin in these functions with the head of the Hamas, and calls, in front thousands of sympathizers of Hamas gathered in a stage of Gaza, the armed wing of the movement with “ to give a lesson ” to Israel to avenge the assassination in Gaza for the “ spiritual leader ” Ahmed Yassin, the Israelis “ will not know safety ”, “ We say to the Brigades Ezzedine Al-Qassam: you must give a lesson to the enemy. The door is open in front of you to strike in any place and constantly and by all the means”.
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Wednesday March 24th 2004

  • European Union:
    • the European commission imposed a fine of 497 million euros to Microsoft for dominant position abuse, and to force in same time the American group to modify its anticompetitive practices. The company has 90 days to propose a version of the Operating system Windows without the software Windows Media Player; it also has 120 days to publish the API S corresponding. Microsoft appeals.
    • Following a beginning of scandal, the company Coca-Cola decides to suspend the launching campaign of its mark of bottled water Dasani in Europe.
  • Cyprus: Swiss opening of negotiations in , in the demicanton of Nidwald, between the Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turkish for the reunification of the island before its entry in the European Union. These discussions knew yesterday a difficult beginning, the Turkey showing from the start the Greece to show unwillingness.
  • France: an handmade bomb was discovered close to Troyes under the ways of the railway line Paris - Basle. The bond with the group AZF is not established and Copycat tracks it is not excluded.

  • the United States:

    • Richard Clarke, a former high ranking official of the Bush administration severely showed yesterday the White House to have sapped the fight against terrorism and to have underestimated the threat posed by Al-Qaïda.
    • Death of Edward G. Zubler, with Cleveland, the 79 years age. Employed General Electric, he had invented the Lampe Halogène in 1959.
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Thursday March 25th 2004

  • European Union, from March 25th to 26th, meeting of the Summit of the Fifteen with Brussels:
    • Reinforcement of the antiterrorist device
    • Engagement to adopt the European Constitution at the latest at the time of the nearest European Council of the June 17th and 18th.
    • the Dutchman Gijs de Vries, former minister for the interior of the Netherlands and specialist in the questions in the information, has just been named like person in charge of the fight against terrorism in Europe. He however declared: “ people should not put their hopes too high. If they await an absolute safety, they will be never satisfied… ”.

  • In France:

    • the first fuselages before and exchange of the giant Airbus A380 were revealed Thursday with the factory of Saint-Nazaire in Loire-Atlantique, a few days before their transport towards the site of Toulouse where the final assembly the plane will be assured.
    • French Academy: the writer discussed Alain Robbe-Grillet is elected academician, and succeeds Maurice Rheims with the 32 {{E}} armchair.
      • the election organized in addition to provide for the replacement with Georges Vedel with the 5 {{E}} armchair is deferred to a latter date, the poll not having made it possible to decide between the 5 candidates. It is the 3rd “white” election for this armchair since the disappearance of Georges Vedel.
  • Greece, Olympie: 142 days before next the Olympic Games which will proceed with Athens, starting from August 13rd, 2004, the Olympic flame was lit on the site of Olympie, by the Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou.
    • Made metal and of wood, carved in the shape of olive branch, the torch blazed up in the passing of the rays of the sun on a polished steel mirror. Range by relay runners, it must make a round the world tour.

  • the United States: A former high ranking official of the Bush administration severely showed yesterday the White House to have “ sapped ” the fight against terrorism and to have underestimated the threat posed by Al-Qaïda.

  • Ivory Coast: A manifestation of the parties of the opposition, prohibited by the government, but maintained by the RDR of Alassane Ouattara, the FN of Guillaume Soro and the PDCI), turns to the attempt at armed insurrection and the confrontation, with the army and police force. During 2 days, the capital Abidjan will be delivered to the exactions of the young patriots pro-president Gbagbo.

    • a heavy assessment which goes from 37 dead according to the government, to 200 according to the MIDH (human rights) and 500 according to the PDCI
    • the opposition withdraws its Ministers for the government and shows France of “ non-assistance to people in danger ”.
  • Israel-Palestine :
    • the the United States, put their veto of permanent member of the Safety advice of the United Nations to block a draft Resolution tending to condemn the assassination by the Israeli army , on March 22nd, of the sheik Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader and cofounder of the Hamas.
    • the new supreme leader of Hamas, Khaled Méchal, indicated Wednesday Ariel Sharon among the possible targets of the reprisals promised by the Palestinian integrist group after the execution by the Israeli army of its founder and inspiring Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
  • Libya: Official visit of British the Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is the first British head of government to go to Tripoli since Winston Churchill in 1943.
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Friday March 26th 2004

  • France: Judgment of the serial killer Emile Louis at twenty years of reclusion of which incompressible two thirds for the rape and the torture of his/her former partner and her daughter-in-law. He will be judged later for the business of the Disparus from Yonne.
  • Poland: Resignation of the Prime Minister Leszek Miller, as of its return of the top of Brussels.
  • Taiwan: electoral commission with confirmed the victory of the outgoing president Chen Shui-bian with the presidential election of last Saturday. The opponents of the opposition party, the Kuomintang, took by storm, without the police force not being able to prevent it, the seat of this commission. Juridically, the opposition has 30 days to dispute the results of the election in front of a court.
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Saturday March 27th 2004

  • the United States: According to the political economist Ron Walters, university of Maryland, which studies the frame of mind of the 24 million black voters in seven months of the presidential one: “ the situation is far from being improved for them. The black middle-class had taken expansion under Bill Clinton, it occurred exactly the opposite under George Bush ”.
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Sunday March 28th 2004

  • Europe: at 2 o'clock in the morning, passage to the standard time of summer, is one hour more. It makes then 3 hours.

  • In France:

    • Second round of the cantonal elections and regional. Tidal wave of the left in almost the whole of the areas. All the triangular ones (linked Left, right member of Parliament, Front National) profited with the left, except for the Alsace and of the Corsica remained on the right.
      • However, within sight of the first final results, the sum of the voices of right-hand side + FN in several areas remains lower than the score of the left. The analysis of the figures gives a progression from + 6% for the left compared to the first turn, + 3% for the line and -2,5% for the FN. In Ile-de-France, the left passes with more than 49% of the voices compared with 39% for the line and 11% for the FN. Concerning the cantonal elections, fifty departments remain or pass right, the others remain or pass on the left.
    • Death on Saturday night, at the 95 years age, of an heart attack of the writer Robert Blackbird. He was the author, inter alia, of Malevil as well as saga Fortune of France . Article in the Express train.
    • Death of the actress Simone Renant at the 93 years age.

  • With the the United States, NASA declares that the hypersonic plane X-43 Scramjet beat the speed records with propulsion, it briefly reached 7  700  km/h (Mach 7) at an altitude of 30  000 Meter S.

  • Congo Kinshasa : Coup attempt of State to Kinshasa. The attackers took television, 4 barracks and a stock of weapons. Rockets were drawn on the presidential palace. The authors with the number of a score are stopped.

  • Ivory Coast: the opposition of the Ivory Coast calls with peaceful demonstrations on the whole of the territory for tomorrow, Monday. This decision makes following repression by the police force of the great unit walk of the Thursday, March 25.
  • Georgia: The coalition carried out by the reforming president Mikheil Saakachvili, obtains a victory votes by plebiscite with 78,6% of the voices. However only 150 of the 235 seats (of which 10 given without vote the deputies coming from Abkhazie) were repourvus at the time of this election, which will thus not lead to a room monocolore. It is noted that irregularities were denounced in Adjarie which could compromise the poll at the national level according to the Central electoral commission.
  • Indonesia: More than 350.000 partisans of the president Megawati Sukarnoputri ravelled in the capital Jakarta while raising the red color of the Democratic party indonésien.
  • Israel: Ariel Sharon is threatened by the prosecutor Edna Arbel of inculpation in an corruption affair with the business man David Appel like one of her sons Gilad Sharon.
  • the Arab League: The Tunisia, state host of the top, initially envisaged with Tunis for next March 29th and 30th, decides its carryforward unilaterally, by asserting differences in opinion between the States about the American project of “ Grand the Middle East ”. Egypt declares itself ready to take over to accommodate the top.
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Monday March 29th 2004

  • the United Nations: the general secretary Kofi Annan dismissed his chief of safety, the Burmese Tun Myat, coordinator of the United Nations as regards safety, and asked him to leave its functions, after the publication of a report/ratio shingling on the deficiencies as regards safety before the attack against the HQ of the made United Nations with Baghdad last August, and in which 22 people perished, of which the chief of the mission of UNO, Sergio Vieira of Mello.
  • the Lithuania, the Estonia, the Latvia, the Romania, the Bulgaria, the Slovakia and the Slovenia adhered to NATO.
  • Lithuania: the court of Vilnius condemned the French singer Bertrand Cantat to 8 years of imprisonment for the murder of his/her partner Marie Trintignant. It has 20 days to make call of this sentence.
  • Malta: the former Prime Minister, Eddie Fenech Adami (left nationalist, 70 years), was elected president with 33 votes (against 29) by the room of the representatives. He succeeds Guido Di Marco.
  • Death with Swiss Geneva in , of the actor and British humorist Peter Ustinov, at the 82 years age. It had multiple talents and was scenario writer, singer, draftsman, writer, journalist and during 30 years, ambassador of the UNICEF.

  • Canada: According to the Canadian center of fight against money laundering (CANAFE), its agents would have discovered, during the first nine months of the fiscal year, 29 cases of supposed financing of terrorist activities, for an amount of 35 million $ which would be used with the financing as terrorist activities, which exceeds the overall amount of the previous year (25 cases for 22 million $).

  • With the Mexico:
    • Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas announced that it renonçait with the presidency of PRD.
    • the country signs the Traité nonproliferation of the nuclear weapons and is thus committed authorizing surprised inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Mexico becomes the 81e country to be adhered to this pact.
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Tuesday March 30th 2004

  • Afghanistan: opening to Berlin (Germany) of the third International Conference on the rebuilding of the country.

  • Bolivia: a minor who expressed in front of the Bolivian congress against the non-payment of his pension explodes dynamite that it carried carrying in death two agents of safety.
  • South Korea: inauguration of the train at high speed connecting Seoul to Busan and Mokpo.

  • Space: According to the measurements taken by instrument PFS embarked on Mars Express, set up by Italian engineers, the Martian atmosphere would contain methane. The detection of this gas would be, according to the specialists, a discovery without precedent in the exploration of red planet, much more important than the confirmation of the presence of water made by the robots of NASA. Methane, gas unstable of the atmosphere, is degraded by a photochemical reaction, in ten years, thus one of the assumptions to explain this presence of methane could be the existence of bacteria currently living on the surface of the planet Mars.

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Wednesday March 31st 2004

  • In France: The Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin reveals the composition of sound third government.
  • In Iraq, with Falloujah, four mercenaries of the American company Blackwater, whose role is in particular the defense of the company Halliburton, is killed by grenades. The bodies of two of them are struck by crowd, trailed by a car, then hung a bridge has. Crowd stressing “ Falloujah will be the cemetery of the forces of the coalition ”.

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