May 2004

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Sunday May 2nd 2004

  • Nigeria: Massacre of Yelwa; 630 killed people.
  • Internet: Sasser is new a Computer virus which seems to make devastations. It tries to penetrate all Ordinateur connected to the network by port 445 by exploiting a security breach of the operating system, if this one did not receive the adequate corrective measure. Once infected, the computer downloads and carries out automatically a program charged with scanner the network to infect other machines. The infection can involve the posting of error messages or the restarting of the contaminated machine. To sift is the third important computer virus of this year, after MyDoom.A, in January, and Bagle.B in February. The operating systems affected by this virus are Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP not updated. Site Microsoft Sécurité. Article on Secuser.
  • Georgia: the separatist leader of Adjarie, Aslan Abaschidzé, blew up the bridges between the rebellious province and the remainder of the country.

Monday May 3rd 2004

  • After its project on the separation of the Gaza Strip was rejected by its party, the Likoud, Ariel Sharon has announced to want to find a consensus
  • Six officers of the American army were blamed to have tortured Iraq iens
  • new the Computer virus, Sasser, to have appeared for a few days, exploiting a security breach of Windows published and corrected in April, in is already with its fourth version Sasser.d

Tuesday May 4th 2004

  • Indonesia: the party Golkar, whose former dictator Suharto was member, with gained the legislative elections with 21,6% of the voices. The current president Megawati Sukarnoputri is in a bad posture before the presidential election of July.
  • Three new people reached of SARS (or atypical pneumonia) were identified in China, of which died.
  • Three bombs explode with Athens at hundred days of opening of the Olympic Games.
  • total Eclipse of the visible Moon in Europe.
  • Law on Social modernization and the formation throughout the life

Wednesday May 5th 2004

  • Iraq: the troops states-uniennes took again the control of the seat of the governor of Nadjaf of the hands of the militiamans of Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr, the Armée with Mahdi, which had seized some one month ago.
  • Libya: death sentence of six Bulgarian and a Palestinian for the infection, through contaminated blood products, by the virus of the AIDS of 426 children in a pediatry. In spite of the presentation of witnesses for the defense, whose Luc Montagnier, this lawsuit was primarily a search for goat-emissary. Condemned will appeal. See Lawsuit against the health professionals Bulgarian and Palestinian.
  • Georgia: following a mediation of the Russia, and after several weeks of a tended arm wrestling, Aslan Abachidze, directing Adjarie, took the way of the exile. The Georgian president Mikheil Saakachvili could enter the capital of the province, Bakoumi, and restore there the authority of Tbilissi.

Thursday May 6th 2004

  • Israel: the cofounder of the Hamas, Mohammed Taha, 68 years old, was released from his Israeli prison.
  • Ukraine: explosion in an ammunition dump in the area of Zaporijia, in the south-east of the country;   more 10  000 people were evacuated and one counts ten deaths.

Friday May 7th 2004

  • Oil: with New York, the Baril has reached 40 Dollar S, its more high level for 14 years.
  • Israel - Lebanon: engagements with the heavy weapon enters the Israeli army and the Hezbollah the disputed zone of the Fermes of Chebaa, conquered on the Syria in 1967, at the time of the Guerre the Six Day old, but asserted by Beirut.
  • the United States of America - Iraq: Donald Rumsfeld is explained concerning the acts of torture made in Iraq before a commission of the Congrès. He excuses himself but does not resign, as ask him certain members of the opposition as well as part of the public opinion. The International committee of the Red Cross, after the disclosure of a confidential relationship, confirms the systematic practice of torture in Iraq, in particular with the Prison of Abu Ghraib.
  • Pakistan: an attack in a mosque Shiite of Karachi made ten died.
  • Tunisia: multitude record with the Jewish pilgrimage of the Synagog of Ghriba on the island of Jerba. Ghriba is oldest Synagog of Africa, founded in -586.
  • Congo: the MONUC, deployed since September 2003 in Ituri, killed ten militiamans Lendu S members of the Front nationalists and integrationists which had attacked it with a score of kilometers of Bunia chief town of Ituri.
  • Russia: Vladimir Poutine lent oath for its second 4 years presidential mandate.
  • Nepal: the Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa, named 11 months ago by the king Gyanendra resigned.
  • Chile: the president Ricardo Lagos signed a law legalizing the Divorce.
  • Ukraine: the country restored with the Catholic church the old catholic episcopal residence of Lvov. This residence had been confiscated in 1945 by the mode of Stalin.

Saturday May 8th 2004

  • Iraq: with Al Basra, the Armed with Mahdi, the militia of Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr tried to take the control of the building of the governor of the city.
  • Germany: arrest of the presumed author of the virus To sift.
  • France: the Contract workers blocked with Garges-lès-Gonesse the buildings of the company Filminger which conveys the Film S for the Cannes festival. They wanted to prevent the copies of the films of which that of film of opening of the festival ( Bad Education of Pedro Almodovar) to arrive before Monday at Cannes. The company had an exemption of the government so that its trucks can run the weekend (what is in prohibited normal weather). According to Marie-Pierre Hauville, the director of communication of the festival, this incident will not disturb the course of the festival.
  • Swiss: the movement Jurassic separatist Groupe Ram occupied the prefecture of Moutier, capital of the the Bernese Jura. The occupation was peaceful, no person was retained of force, and finished 90 minutes after her beginning. The Bélier group wished to thus show its opposition to the special statute proposed by Bern, about which the Bernese legislature will come to a conclusion in June, with its French-speaking minority and granting competences in the cultural field to him and of teaching, instead of asserted autonomy. (1 and 2)
  • Space conquest: Test successful for a model of the European space shuttle EADS Phoenix, in the north of the Sweden. It was released at an altitude of 2400 meters and planed until its landing.

Sunday May 9th 2004

  • Russia: with Grozny, the capital of the Chetchnia, a score (dubious figure) people were killed of which the Chechen president set up by Moscow, Akhmad Kadyrov, and of different tens wounded in an bomb attack in the Dynamo stage with 10:35 (6. 35 GMT) during a ceremony of the victory of 1945, organized traditionally the May 9th in Russia which marks the defeat of the Nazisme during the Second world war.
  • New Caledonia: The two political main forces, RPCR, anti-freedom fighter, and the FLNKS, freedom fighter, move back at the time of the elections to the Congress. The anti-freedom fighters remain majority although divided from now on between partisans of Jacques Lafleur (16 seats) and the representative of alliance the future together (16 seats), the freedom fighters obtain 18 seats, the national front preserves its four elected officials.
  • Turkey: Turkish the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gave the first blow of pickaxe to Istanbul with the railway tunnel of 13,7 km under the strait of the the Bosphorus.

Monday May 10th 2004

  • Iraq: the general headquarter of Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr was entirely destroyed by aviation states-unienne.

Tuesday May 11th 2004

  • Israel - Band of Gaza: activists of the Hamas destroy an Israeli tank and exhibent remain them of six soldiers. Hebrew reprisals of the state which occupies a town of Gaza. The government affirms that Tsahal will be withdrawn only when the remainders of the soldiers are returned.
  • Scotland: with Glasgow, an explosion having entirely destroyed a factory made 7 died. There is also ten missings.
  • China: with Anyang, the collapse of a scaffolding made at least 20 died.
  • the United States of America: the US government imposes economic sanctions on the Syria.

Wednesday May 12th 2004

  • Iraq: a American Hostage , Nick Berg, was decapitated by a group related to Al-Qaida, probably directed by Abou Moussab Zarqaoui.
  • Swiss: the European Union goes into reverse and will not tax the re-exportations towards the Union. It is the return to the situation in force since the signature of the agreement of Libre-échange of 1972.
  • Nigeria: with Kano of young Moslems Christians in the suburbs of this locality massacre where several hundreds of Moslems had been massacred the May 2nd.
  • Filipino: according to provisional results, the outgoing president, Gloria Arroyo, would have gained the presidential election with 40,84% of the voices, against 32,26% with her main adversary, Fernando Poe.

Thursday May 13rd 2004

  • India: following the poll which proceeded from April 20th to May 10th, the opposition gathered behind the Parti of the Congress and Sonia Gandhi. According to estimates of the Electoral commission, at least 55% of the 671 million registered voters took part in these elections.
  • Swiss - European Union: the bilateral negotiations succeeded. The Suisse agrees to gradually extend free-circulation to the 10 new Member States, will contribute to the funds of cohesion, will accentuate the fight against the customs fraud, the tax evasion (indirect taxation) in exchange of a larger opening to the processed agricultural produce, the such chocolate and the coffee, and of a participation in the agreements of Schengen and Dublin. Switzerland will in the long term take a tax of 35% on the incomes of the European funds invested to Switzerland, tax mainly reassigned with the country of origin.
  • the United States: the agroalimentary giant states-unien Monsanto has just declared the abandonment of the production of Blé genetically modified because of pressure of the consumers who were against.

Friday May 14th 2004

  • the United Kingdom: the Editor association of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, resigned, the photographs of tortures in Iraq published by its newspaper being revealed forgeries.
  • Iraq: the civil administrator American in Iraq Paul Bremer clearly evoked the possibility of a disengagement of the American Armée in Iraq, while declaring “it is obviously not possible to remain in a country where we are not welcome”. Since the beginning of the war in March 2003, 778 soldiers were killed in Iraq, according to an official statement of the coalition published today.
  • Denmark: marriage of the Danish prince Frederik Andre Henrik Christian (35 years), wire of the current queen Margrethe II, with the Australia Mary Donaldson (32 years), originating in Tasmanie, in the cathedral Lutheran of Copenhagen.

Saturday May 15th 2004

  • Israel: with Tel Aviv 150  000 Israeli demonstrators claimed the withdrawal of Gaza. The demonstration was organized by the Labor opposition carried out by Shimon Peres.
  • Football: the 24 members of the executive committee of FIFA chose the South Africa for the organization of the Football world cup of 2010. The other finalists were the Morocco, the Egypt and the Libya. The Tunisia had been withdrawn following the refusal of a common candidature with Libya by the FIFA.
  • Nigeria: the Nobel Prize of literature 1986 Wole Soyinka was briefly stopped at the time of a hostile demonstration to the government and the president Olusegun Obasanjo with Lagos.
  • the United States of America: death, at the 85 years age, of the colonel Robert Morgan, old ordering B-17 Memphis Beautiful first bomber to have made a success of 25 missions against the Germany during the Second world war. This exploit was reported, in a fictionalized way, in the film éponyme.
  • Turkey: the Ukrainian Ruslana Lyžycko, with the song Wild Dances gained Saturday evening with Istanbul the 49e Concours Eurovision of the song.

Sunday May 16th 2004

  • Swiss: the Swiss people rejected the three objects proposed with the popular referendum. The rate of VAT will not be raised of 1,8% - it is currently of 7,6% - to finance the old-age insurances and disability; the retirement age for the women remains at 64 years and does not pass to 65 years; finally, the people rejected a tax reform, inducing a fall of taxes for the majority of the citizens.
  • Dominican Republic: in an atmosphere of economic crisis and social, Dominican the elected their president. The outgoing president Hipolito Mejia was beaten by its predecessor Leonel Fernandez.
  • Israel: the Israeli Supreme court decided not to prohibit the destruction of house with Rafah at the border between the Gaza Strip and the Egypt. According to the international organizations, more than 1000 Palestinians are homeless people following the destruction of these last days. These demolitions in particular aim at cutting the Palestinian activists of their sources of supply out of weapons, by increasing the No man' S Land along the border separating the Gaza Strip and the Egypt.
  • the Vatican: the Pape Jean-Paul II canonized Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian deceased during its childbirth in 1962 after having refused a therapeutic Interruption of pregnancy.
  • France: set fire to in the electric wiring of the power station Nucléaire of Cattenom in the Moselle. Any risk of contamination seems avoided but the engine n°2 of the Nuclear plant of Cattenom in the Moselle was stopped. The engine had just been given in service after maintenance.

Monday May 17th 2004

Tuesday May 18th 2004

  • India: Sonia Gandhi declared today that following the bearing incidents on its nationality Italy (it however has Indian nationality since 1984), it gives up becoming Prime Minister of India.
  • the Middle East: nineteen Palestinian, for the majority of the armed activists, were killed in the south of the band of Gaza following an Israeli operation aiming to destroy a hundred houses with Rafah to widen the buffer zone along the Egyptian border . The Palestinian Authority invited the international community to intervene to stop the operation. The Safety advice of the United Nations adopted the following day, a resolution aiming at condemning these intrigues, the the United States not having put them Veto. Since September 2000, the Intifada made 4.039 died including 3.050 Palestinians (kamikazes included) and 918 Israelis.
  • France: thirteen of the seventeen shown with the Procès of Outreau ( Pas-de-Calais ) were cleared following the declarations of the head prosecutor towards 19:00. Certain people say already that the Justice was made “berner” not a manipulator, but the judge with authorized the handing-over in freedom of one only of the thirteen defendants.
  • Sport: the International Olympic committee retained the candidatures of five cities London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris with the organization of the Olympic Games of 2012 and drew aside those of Leipzig (Germany), Istanbul, Havana and Rio de Janeiro (Brésil)
  • Musique: Died of the Beater of Jazz Elvin Jones which played a long time with John Coltrane

Wednesday May 19th 2004

  • Iraq: the American Soldier of 1st class Jeremy Sivits which is one of the seven soldiers accused for the moment in the scandal of the maltreatment, will be the first with being judged today by a special American martial court with Baghdad. The ayatollah Sistani request with Iraqi not to express to avoid the fixings.
  • European Union: the European commission authorized, for the first time since 1999, the importation in the EU of the first food genetically modified, the Maïs “BT-11”, produced by the firm Suisse Syngenta.
  • India: following the refusal of Sonia Gandhi, it is the Sikh Manmohan Singh which is appointed Prime Minister.
  • Ivory Coast: the president Laurent Gbagbo dismissed three Ministers for the coalition to replace them by members of his own party. The opposition shows it to violate the signed agreements of Marcoussi the 24 January 2003.

Thursday May 20th 2004

  • Iraq: the residence of Ahmed Chalabi, member of the Iraqi government council, and the secretariat of its party, are buckled by the army states-unienne. Old ally of Washington, it is suspected today of Corruption.
  • Malawi: elections presidential and legislative. The outgoing president, Bakili Muluzi, was not represented, the constitution authorizing only two mandates. No serious incident was deferred.
  • Chetchnia: the war leader tchetchene extremist Chamil Bassaïev asserts the attack of the May 9th, which killed the president pro-Russian Akhmad Kadyrov of Chetchnia and a score of another people, and announces operations towards the Russian president Vladimir Poutine and his family.
  • Tunisia: death of Abdelaziz Mathari, economist and Tunisian politician at the 81 years age.

Friday May 21st 2004

  • Burundi: the Safety advice of UNO decided the creation of a gripping force of peace, the Opération of the United Nations in Burundi or ONUB, in this country which tries to be raised ten years of war. This force will relay the troops of the African Union as of on June 1st for one six months initial duration.
  • European Union: the firm Suisse Syngenta decided not to market its Maïs transgenic BT-11 in Europe. This decision comes from an absence of request on behalf of the transformers. It nevertheless will ask for an authorization of culture of this corn bound for the animal feeds; the Farmer S French having announced their interest.
  • Russia: the electoral commission of Chetchnia fixed the date of nearest the presidential election at the August 29th 2004.
  • Iraq: after the Honduras, the Spain completed the withdrawal of its troops of the country.
  • the Near East: continuation of the operation “Rainbow” the purpose of which is to destroy the tunnels between Gaza and the Egypt and which made since Tuesday some forty-two died on the Palestinian side without finding any of these tunnels. The Israeli Armée redeploys with Rafah. Nearly a thousand of Israelis claimed the dead halt of the operation of Rafah and the withdrawal of the Gaza Strip at the time of a demonstration. This operation is also criticized by the international community.
  • France: Eleven years old Jonathan and which had disappeared the last April 5th from a vacation center of Loire-Atlantique was found. It was killed before being thrown, ballasted of a breeze block, in a pond with Guérande.
  • Nepal: a Sherpa Nepalese 26 years beat the record of the rise of the Mount Everest. It has took eight hours and 10 minutes to him to rise on the roof of the world.
  • Colombia: the Antioquia university of Medellin was struck by an bomb attack not asserted at 20:45, Thursday evening (01h45 UTC Friday morning) which made at least four died and seventeen wounded.

Saturday May 22nd 2004

Sunday May 23rd 2004

  • Germany: Horst Köhler was named president of Germany by the body of the Great Electors.
  • France: four people found death and three others were wounded this morning in the collapse of part of the roof on a footbridge with the terminal 2nd of the Aéroport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle around 7 a.m.
  • India: in the Cashmere, twenty-eight Indian soldiers died in an attack against a bus 100 km in the south of Srinagar. The attack was asserted by the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.

Monday May 24th 2004

  • UNO: the American government and British proposed a new resolution with UNO on the transfer of sovereignty of the Iraq. It envisages a one year mandate for the occupying forces directed by the United States, as from the taking of of the Iraqi temporary government. However, he also affirms that the Iraqi provisional government will assume the total responsibility for its own sovereignty.
  • Tennis: beginning of the tournament of Roland Garros; elimination of Andre Agassi by the French Jerome Haehnel.

Tuesday May 25th 2004

  • the Gaucho, treatment of seed S Insecticide marketed by Bayer CropScience is banished in France for use on the seeds of Maïs. Gaucho is shown to be responsible for the very strong reduction in population of Abeille S during the last years and is interdict for 2 years in the name of the Precaution principle.
  • France: the State education knows today an inter-union national day of strike, the call of the four main confederations of teaching (FSU, Unsa-Education, Sgen-CFDT and Ferc-CGT) to which join the parents of pupils of FCPE. Its principal demand is to protest against the budgetary restrictions weighing on the next re-entry of next September. But it was followed little.
  • the Caribbean: the assessment of the torrential rains which fell down last weekend of 210 died on several localities on Haiti (130 dead) and Dominican Republic (80 dead) the most touched city is Jimani, in the south-west of the Dominican Republic.

Wednesday May 26th 2004

  • the Caribbean: the number of died of the bad weather is re-examined (see Tuesday) with the rise. He of 500 would have died on the island of Hispaniola. The authorities of Haiti and the Dominican Republic fear the epidemics now.
  • World: the organization Amnesty International condemns, in his annual report of 2004, at the same time the terrorist “ready with very” to arrive to their ends but also the guilty governments of “drifts” related to the Lutte antiterrorism.
  • Chad: in a meeting boycotted by the opposition, the Parliament adopted a constitutional reform raising the limit of two mandates for the president, increasing his capacities and reforming the Senate. A referendum will have to be organized before these reforms can come into effect.
  • Football: by beating the ACE Monaco by 3-0, FC Oporto gains the Ligue of the Champions and becomes thus champion of Europe of football 2004.
  • Sudan: with Naivasha with the Kenya, the Sudanese government and the rebels of APLS signed three agreements supplementing the precedents and specifying the six years methods of transition: the first regulates the division of the capacity, the second the statute of the capital Khartoum and the last one regulates the provisional administration of the three still disputed areas (the province of the Blue Nile, the area of the Mont Nuba and that of the Mont Abiyei). At the end of these six years, these three provinces will decide on their future. These agreements, which do not relate to the conflict in the province of the Darfur, make it possible to foresee the term of the conflict between the Christian south and animist and the Moslem north which lasts since 1983. It remains to regulate the technical details of the cease-fire in order to be able to arrive at a total peace agreement for the south.

Thursday May 27th 2004

  • Iraq: the Armed with Mahdi directed by Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr and the army states-unienne concluded a truce.
  • Italy: the industrialist Umberto Agnelli, president of FIAT, died at the end of the evening in his residence of Mandria, close to Turin, of the continuations of a Cancer.
  • France: the strike on the project of the statute of EDF-GDF brought together 80.000 demonstrators with Paris. The project aims at making pass EDF-GDF to the statute of Public limit company.
  • Swiss - the Vatican: Switzerland standardizes its relations with the the Vatican by naming an ambassador. The relations were tended since the nomination of monseigneur Wolfgang Haas, a Liechtenstein ois near to the Opus Dei, like bishop of Coire in 1988, against the opinion of faithful and by violating the secular rights of the Chapitre of Coire during the procedure of nomination.

Friday May 28th 2004

  • Iraq: Iyad Allaoui, Shiite near to the CIA, was named at the future post of Prime Minister by the Iraqi temporary Conseil. It will take its functions the June 30th 2004.
  • France: the chairman of the board of the group of communication Iliad (companies Free, One.Tel, 3617 ASS, etc) Xavier Niel, was put in examination and écroué for Proxénétisme and concealment of abuse of corporate asset. It is reproached to him for having a “peep-show” with Strasbourg, which would have been used as cover with activities of Prostitution. The criminal charge of concealment of abuse of corporate asset relates to an establishment similar to Paris. The course of the action of the group Iliad fell of 10,5% in one day.
  • Iran: a Earthquake of magnitude 6,1 (5,5 according to others sources) place in the north of the country had; the epicentre is located close to Baladeh, in the province of Mazandaran, close to the Caspian Sea. The seism was felt in eight provinces of the country and 45 dead as several hundreds of casualties are announced.
  • France: the two parts of the Viaduct of Millau, in the Aveyron, carried out their junction to 270 m above the Tarn.
  • the offer of Wendel Investissement was retained by the Groupe Lagardere for the repurchase of 60% of Editis.

Saturday May 29th 2004

  • Iraq: engagements between the American army and the Shiite militiamans of Moqtada al-Sadr to Koufa whereas a truce had been issued.
  • France: the Aéroports of Paris required that, following the accident of the terminal 2nd, a displacement of certain companies be carried out towards the airport of Orly which is not saturated in order to unchoke that of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.

Sunday May 30th 2004

  • Germany: doubled Ferrari with the Grand Prix of Europe of Formula 1 (circuit of the Nürburgring): Michael Schumacher 1st, Rubens Barichello 2nd.
  • Saudi Arabia: twenty-two dead one American , a British , a Italy N, a Swedish and eight Indiens are announced after the attack given against alleged members of Al-Qaïda who retained since the day before about fifty people as an hostage in a building of a residential complex of Al Khobar, in the east of the country. Twenty-five people were released and three of the four members of the commando have escaped with the police force.
  • Mali: First communal elections organized on the whole of the territory.

Monday May 31st 2004

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