October 2003

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Wednesday the 1st er October 2003

  • Palestine, the chief of the Islamic Djihad is captured by the Israeli army in the camp of Jenin.
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Thursday October 2nd 2003

  • In France, beginning of the appeal of Sitted (until October 15th) of the former nurse Christine Malevre, shown to have assassinated, between February 1997 and May 1998, seven patients of the François-Quesnay hospital, with Mantes-the-Pretty in the Yvelines, and already condemned to 10 years of prison. Its judgment will be increased to 12 years of imprisonment.
  • the United States:
    • the adviser for the national security Condoleezza Rice announces the creation of a group of stabilization of Iraq placed under its own responsibility.
    • American David Kay, chief of the group of inspectors américano-British on the weapons of massive destruction (ISG) in Iraq, presents his first report/ratio to the American Congress and still indicates not to have found anything.
  • the Russian Minister for Defense Sergueï Ivanov, indicates that, if NATO preserves a “ military quality of alliance keeping the current official doctrines ”, the Russian government could call in question its strategic partnership.
  • Literature: The South-African novelist John Maxwell Coetzee obtains the Nobel Prize of literature.
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Friday October 3rd 2003

  • President George W. Bush, declares about the report/ratio presented the day before by the chief of the ISG, which it shows “ that Saddam Hussein misled the international community actively, that Saddam Hussein clearly violated the resolution 1441 of the Safety advice of UNO and that Saddam Hussein was a danger to the world ”.
  • In Sweden, Laila Freivalds, former minister for Justice, is named as new a Foreign Minister to replace Anna Lindh, assassinated the last September 10th.
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Saturday October 4th 2003

  • Opening of the intergovernmental Conference of the European Union to Rome, charged to adopt the constitution project European, elaborate by the Convention chaired by French Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
  • the Middle East:
    • Attack-suicide asserted by the Islamic Djihad in a restaurant of Haïfa in Israel: 19 dead plus the kamikaze.
    • In the night from October 4th to 5th, the Israeli army carries out a raid on the territory Syrien against a camp of drive of the Islamic Djihad, located close to Damas. It is about the first Israeli operation in Syria since 1974.
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Sunday October 5th 2003

  • the chief of the ISG, David Kay announces the discovery in the refrigerator of an Iraqi scientist, bottles containing of botulinic toxins.
  • the Middle East: Israel launched an air attack on a supposed basis of Jihad Islamique in the suburbs of Damas in Syria, following a suicide bombing in a restaurant of Haïfa having made 19 died.
  • In Chetchnia, Akhmad Kadyrov, the candidate with the presidential election supported by the Russian government, gains the presidential election with 82,5% of the voices.
  • From October 5th to 7th, with Moscow in Russia, official visit of French the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
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Monday October 6th 2003

  • Given of the Nobel Prize of medicine to the American chemist Paul Lauterbur and to the British physicist Peter Mansfield for their work in the Années 1970 on the Imagerie by magnetic resonance, which allowed the creation of the modern magnetic camera, and of the Tomographie by magnetic resonance.
  • In Palestine: Facing new Israeli threats, the president of the Palestinian Autorité Yasser Arafat states the state of emergency in the Palestinian territories. He names moreover one new government of 8 members directed by the Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei.
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Tuesday October 7th 2003

  • Gray Davis, the democratic governor of the state of California, is relieved by a popular vote (55% of the voices) at the time of a procedure of revocation ( recall ), its republican successor, the actor of Austrian origin Arnold Schwarzenegger, is elected with 48,1% of the votes.
  • Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declares that Israel is decided to strike its enemies “ everywhere and by all the means”.
  • Parliament of Turkey vote in favor of the sending of troops in Iraq by 358 votes against 183. In reaction raised shields in all Iraq.
  • Given of the Nobel Prize of Physics to Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett for “work pioneers in the theoretical field of the superconductive and the Superfluid S”.
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Wednesday October 8th 2003

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Thursday October 9th 2003

  • With Iekaterinbourg in Russia, official visit of the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and discussions with President Vladimir Poutine.
  • With Baghdad in Iraq, a Spanish military attach3e Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez is assassinated.
  • From October 9th to 11th, visit of State to the Morocco of French President Jacques Chirac.
  • the Pakistan announces the test successful of a new missile with nuclear capacity Shaheen 1 of a range of 700 km. This missile has the capacity to strike the Indian big cities. This test follows one week the test of a missile of short range Hatf-2 Ghaznavi. The spokesperson of the Pakistani army specified that the India had been informed before each launching.
  • the very recent Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei presented her resignation, following a divergence with the president of the Palestinian Autorité Yasser Arafat in connection with the Minister choice for Defense.
  • Science: the chemical element 110 was officially baptized Darmstadtium by an work group made up of UICPA and UIPPA. Its name comes from the town of Darmstadt where the laboratory GSI is located which discovered it.
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Friday October 10th 2003

  • France: At the time of the lawsuit of the fictional jobs of the RPR, the prosecutor requires against the former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, 8 months of suspended sentence and a fine.
  • Opening in Australia of the 5th World cup of Rugby with 20 nations present to gain the trophy William Webb Elect. The opening ceremony proceeded in Telstra Stadium, with Sydney. At the time of the match of opening, the team of Australia beat that of Argentine by 24 to 8.
  • the Nobel Prize of peace is allotted to militant the Iran ienne human rights Shirin Ebadi for her efforts in favor of the Démocratie and the human rights.
  • Japanese the Prime Minister Jun' ichirō Koizumi ordered the dissolution of the Lower House of the Parliament, in order to call with new legislative elections. The date of those was fixed at November 9th. The Lower House of the Japanese Parliament counts 480 deputies.
  • an incursion of the Israeli army with Rafah in the West Bank makes 7 dead. The goal of the operation is to destroy tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip to the Egypt. It is about more big operation of Tsahal in Rafah since the beginning of the Intifada.
    • Until October 16th, a total of 114 Palestinian dwellings will be shaven in the north of the Gaza Strip.
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Saturday October 11th 2003

  • In Bolivia, of the demonstrations turns to the riot, the army shoots at crowd and kills several tens of people. Demonstrations took place since the 28 September to protest against the Bolivian natural gas export.
  • UNO indicated that she inquired into a massacre of 16 people, women for the majority, in a village of the east of the Congo-Kinshasa.
  • 50 rebels Maoists and 7 police officers were killed in clashes in the west of the Nepal. They are the more violent ones engagements since the rupture of the Cessez-le-feu by the guerilla Maoist on August 27th.
  • According to the American daily newspaper Los Angeles Times , the Israeli army would be able to launching since its submarines of the American cruise missiles Harpoon equipped with a nuclear load.
  • the Syria affirmed that it would counteract by all the means in its possession in the event of new Israeli attacks on its territory.
    • the Israeli government answered that Syria should assume its responsibilities if it shelters terrorist groups.
  • With UNO Kofi Annan condemned the death of Palestinian civilians in the operation to Rafah, and qualified it excessive use of the force.
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Sunday October 12th 2003

  • In the center of Baghdad, attack-suicide in front of the hotel Baghdad , known to be the general headquarter of the American intelligence services: 7 Iraqi police officers and guards are killed.
  • meeting on the edges of the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side, of the Palestinian and Israeli personalities met to conclude a pact symbolic system intended to start again the peace negotiations. Appointment was taken for an official ratification in Geneva the 4 November.
    • the Israeli Minister for the Foreign affairs Silvan Shalom declared: “ I did not await another thing on behalf of these people who brought to us the agreements of Oslo (1993), from which we still pay the price today ”.
  • the China announced that it would proceed to the sending of a space mission inhabited between the 14 and on October 17th. The flight should consist of 14 terrestrial orbits before its return to earth.
  • In the United States, After 34 hours of operation an American team of Dallas to the Texas succeeded in separating two Siamese Twins Egyptian two years old and joints by the head.
  • F1 : the German Michael Schumacher gains its sixth championship of the world of the drivers of F1. It beats the record of Juan Manuel Fangio. At the origin of its Formula One a , the stable Ferrari gains a new championship of the world of the manufacturers.
  • the Spanish Igor Astarloa becomes world champion of Cyclisme on road with Hamilton (Canada).
  • the female team German of female Football gains the world cup in the United States.
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Monday October 13rd 2003

  • According to the German magazine Der Spiegel , Mossad (intelligence service and of actions of the Israelis) would have received the mission of planning possible attacks against Iranian targets.
  • With the the Vatican, 25e birthday of the election of the pope Jean-Paul II.
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Tuesday October 14th 2003

  • In France:
    • Death of the doctor cancer specialist Leon Schwartzenberg at the 79 years age, the hospital Paul-Bush of Villejuif, of a Cancer. To see the article on LeMonde.fr.
    • Death of the Singer and Compositeur Libertaire François Béranger at the 66 years age, carried by a cancer in its residence of Saves, in the Gard. To see the article on France2.fr.
  • With Baghdad, car bomb attack in front of the embassy of Turkey: two dead.
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Wednesday October 15th 2003

  • France: The French government rejects the draft agreement of the September 2nd of payment of the Affaire Executive Life which envisaged the payment of a fine of 585 million US dollars, because François Pinault, billionaire and close friend of the president of the Republic, and Jean Peyrelevade, former assistant editor of cabinet of Pierre Mauroy in Matignon, then chairmen of LCL, both personally implied in this business, would have remained in the collimator of the parquet floor of Los Angeles. This transaction is accepted on February 15th, 2005. Moreover F. Pinault will have probably to sacrifice the successor of Executive Life, Aurora.
  • In China, launching of the spaceship Shenzhou 5 (“divine Vessel”), carrying on its board the lieutenant-colonel Yang Liwei, first taikonaute (Chinese cosmonaut) of the History. The vessel was launched, at 9 o'clock in the morning (local time), since the base of Juiquan located in the Gobi Desert and, it returned on ground, on October 16th, after 14 circumterrestrial orbits and a landing in Mongolia-Interior.
  • In the north of the Gaza Strip, with Beit Hanoun, a convoy of American security agents underwent an attack: 3 died and a casualty.
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Thursday October 16th 2003

  • In France, the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurates, with Corsica Ajaccio in , a new commemorative plaque with the memory of the Prefect Claude Erignac killed by Corsican nationalists.
  • European Union:
    • Food GMO: Monsanto announces its intention to leave the market of the Céréale S European because of a low level of penetration. See also GMO.
    • October 16th and 17th, with Brussels, the Council of the heads of state and government. The 17, President Jacques Chirac expresses there in the name of the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder which was to take part in an important political debate at the Bundestag in Berlin.
  • In Azerbaïdjan, İlham Əliyev, wire of the outgoing president and former communist dignitary Heydər Əliyev, gained the first turn of the presidential election with 80% of the voices. This result is disputed by thousands of opponents in anger.
  • the Taïkonaute Chinese Yang Liwei returned on ground without encumbers on board the spaceship Shenzhou 5 after a 21 hours flight. During this flight, it carried out 14 times it tower of planet.
  • Vote unanimously by the Safety advice of the United Nations of the Resolution 1511 (4th version of the draft Resolution presented by the United States).
    • This resolution Authorizes the creation of a multinational force under American command and, request with the temporary Council of government (IGC) Iraqi to present, by on December 15th, a calendar concerning the drafting of a new Constitution and L (organization of elections.
    • France, Germany and Russia, voted for this resolution but estimate that “ the conditions of are not met to consider a military or financial engagement beyond their current engagement ”.
    • It is to be stressed that this resolution does not fix any calendar with regard to the withdrawal of the occupying forces and the re-establishment of Iraqi sovereignty.
  • With Putrajaya, 10th top of the Organization of the Islamic conference in which Russian President Vladimir Poutine takes part.
    • Malaysian the Prime Minister Mohammad Mahathir and host of the top declared that “ Europeans killed six million Jews on twelve. But today, the Jews direct the world by procuration. They obtain that the others fight and die for them ”. These remarks cause a made indignant reaction of the United States and European Union, but had caused only approvals within the assembly.
  • the Vatican: until October 22nd, ceremonies to celebrate the 25e birthday of the pontificate of Jean-Paul II.
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Friday October 17th 2003

  • From October 17th to 23rd, the US president George W. Bush carries out a round of visits, centered on the “ fight against terrorism ”, in several countries of Asia and of the peaceful one.
    • on October 17th, with Tokyo in Japan.
    • October 18th and 19th, with Manila in Philippines.
    • the 20 and 21, it takes part in the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific area, Bangkok in Thailand.
    • the 21, with Singapore.
    • the 22, with Bali in Indonesia.
    • the 23, with Canberra in Australia.
  • the American Congress votes in quasi totality, the 87 billion US dollars necessary according to the US government to continue the “ war against terrorism ”.
  • In Bolivia, following the slaughter of October 11th, the President néo-liberal Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada resigns and is exiled with Miami in Florida. Its vice-president Carlos Mesa replaces it like President.
  • Architecture: Taipei 101 became highest Gratte-ciel world with 508 meters, after the pause of the pinnacle of 60 meters on the roof of the building.
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Saturday October 18th 2003

  • Asia: opening of the top of the APEC which gathers the 21 leaders of peaceful Asia. The files treated during this top will be the fight against terrorism, Iraq and the nuclear crisis in North Korea.
  • Space conquest: A Russian rocket of the Soyuz takes off of the base of Baïkonour to the Kazakhstan, to transport three cosmonauts (Spanish of ESA, Russian and American) towards the international space station (ISS). stowing the 20.
    • It returns on ground on October 28th with Spanish, and the two preceding occupants of the station who were in space since the April 28th, Russian Youri Malentchenko and American Edward Lu .
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Sunday October 19th 2003

  • Death with Sarajevo of Alija Izetbegovitch at the 78 years age. He was the first Moslem president of the Bosnia-Herzégovine and had directed the country of 1990 to 1995 after the bursting of ex-Yugoslavia.
  • In Ivory Coast, it to defer Jean Helene , correspondent of the chain RFI (Radio France international) is killed, before the general headquarter of the police force, by a police officer in uniform.
  • At the time of the visit with Teheran in Iran, of the French Foreign Ministers, German and British, the Iranian authorities began to cooperate completely with IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).
  • 3 Israeli soldiers are killed at the time of a ambush in the West Bank.
  • the general meeting of the United Nations adopts a European resolution requiring that
    • Israel “ stop and reconsiders ” the construction of the wall in the occupied territories.
    • the Palestinian Autorité makes “ visible efforts ” to put an end to the “ violent attacks ” against the Israeli population.
  • In Romania, validation of the constitutional referendum with 54,4% of participation.
  • In Swiss, UDC (democratic Union of the center), left the populist line, arrived at the head of the federal elections with 27,7% of the votes, and obtains 55 seats (+11) out of 200. It is today the first political party in Switzerland and its leader Christoph Blocher aspires to a second station at the federal council with the detriment of PDC.
    • the UDC had obtained 11% in 1991 and 22% in 1999.
    • Other parties: Socialist party 52 seats (+1), Radical party 36 seats (- 6), Left Christian-Democrat 28 seats (- 7), Greens 13 seats (+4), Liberals 4 seats (+2), PEV 3 seats, others 9 seats.
    • Results 1999: Socialist party 512 seats, Radical party 36 seats, Party Christian-Democrat 28 seats, Greens 13 seats, Liberals 4 seats, PEV 3 seats, others 9 seats.
  • In Chetchnia, Akhmad Kadyrov, directing it tchetchene prorusse, officially took its president's functions 15 days after its very discussed election.
  • With the the Vatican, ceremony of beatification of Mother Teresa in front of more than three hundred and thousand faithful, of which Bernadette Chirac and Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
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Monday October 20th 2003

  • In France, 90% of the tobacconists closed their store to protest against the rise in the price of the cigarettes, denouncing a taxation assassinates (80% of the price of the tobacco) and of prohibitory measurements incentive to the development of smuggling (25% of consumption in Europe).
    • Average costs of the cigarettes in Europe: Norway 7,19 € - the United Kingdom 7,05 € - France 4,65 € - Sweden 4,31 € - Finland 4,00 € - Denmark 3,90 € - Belgium 3,70 € - Swiss 3,60 € - Netherlands 3,35 € - Italy 3,30 € - Germany 3,20 €, Luxembourg 2,85 € - Greece 2,70 € - Spain 2,50 € - Portugal 2,25 €.
  • the Israeli army carries out five raids in the Gaza Strip: 7 dead.
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Tuesday October 21st 2003

  • In visit with Beuvrages in the Northern , President Jacques Chirac lance the electoral campaign and target the heart of the debate while declaring: “ degraded Habitat, insecurity, unemployment, discrimination, rise of the communautarism and the inequalities: these painful realities must be taken with arm the body. They cannot be been unaware of speech and public action ”.
  • In California, of gigantic fires devastates this American State.
  • In Romania, the constitutional reform is accepted with 89,7  % of the votes. The goal of this reform is to harmonize the Rumanian constitution with the legislation of the European Union.
  • With the the Vatican, the pope Jean-Paul II gave the bar to the 31 new cardinals, named by him the September 28th thus carrying manpower of crowned college with 194 members, of which the archbishop of Marseilles Bernard Panafieu, the archbishop of Lyon Philippe Barbarin and the Secretary of State (Foreign affairs) of the Holy See Jean-Louis Tauran.
  • Literature: The Goncourt Academy decreed for its centenary the Prix Goncourt with Jacques-Pierre Amette for the mistress of Brecht .
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Wednesday October 22nd 2003

  • In France, October 22nd and 23rd, of the police searchings is made in Corsica in the entourage of the former nationalist chief Charles Pieri.
  • Visit of State of President Jacques Chirac in Niger (Oct. 22 and 23) and in Mali (Oct. 24 and 25).
  • In Bosnia-Herzégovine, some 150.000 people assisted with funerals of the former Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic.
  • CEI: the tension is assembled between the Russia and the Ukraine in connection with the island of Touzla located in the Détroit of Kertch. The problem emerged whereas Russia built a stopping in the strait.
  • the general meeting of the United Nations voted for a resolution requiring of Israel to give up its project of wall and to destroy the already built part of the work.
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Thursday October 23rd 2003

  • With Madrid in Spain, conference bringing together the representatives of 73 countries, 20 international organizations and 13 ONG (Governmental organizations) to try to gather funds for the rebuilding of Iraq.
    • Iraqi IGC announces that the Iraqi companies could be had at 100% by the foreign investors.
    • the conference is closed on promises of various contributions for an entire amount of 13 billion US dollars plus 20 billion already promised by American. This operation especially made it possible to widen the circle of the countries which follow the United States to Iraq.
    • Neither France, nor Germany, appear among the contributors.
  • Inauguration with Los Angeles of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, conceived by the architect Frank Gehry, and sits of the Philharmonic orchestra of Los Angeles, at a cost of 50 million US dollars offered by Lilian Disney .
  • Literature: The Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy is allotted to Jean-Christmas Pancrazi for All passed so quickly .
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Friday October 24th 2003

  • France:
    • the federal prosecutor of California, grants to the French government a one month deadline to find a new agreement to replace that rejected on October 15th.
    • In Corsica, two attacks aiming of the police officers having taken part in the searchings of the October 22nd and 23rd against close relations of the nationalist chief Charles Pieri.
  • Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announces that the construction of a second wall is being studied.
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Saturday October 25th 2003

  • In Corsica, a rocket noncharged is drawn against quartering from the CRS to Aspretto.
  • In Italy, after the Union of the Moslems of Italy claims the posting of verses of the Coran beside the Crucifix in a nursery school of the the Abruzzi, a judge orders the withdrawal of all the crucifixes of the school.
  • In Russia:
    • In the Business Ioukos, Mikhaïl Khodorkovski, owner oligarch of the oil group, is stopped with the airport of Novosibirsk in Siberia, and put under the blow of seven inculpations, of which those of flight in organized group, swindle, tax avoidance and forgery. He denies the facts and risks ten years of prison.
    • Its group had just operated a fusion with the group Sibneft and was in talks with the American group Exxon Mobil for an acquisition of a holding.
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Sunday October 26th 2003

  • the Hôtel Al-Rachid of Baghdad is the target of an attack at the time from which 29 rockets are drawn, making 1 died and 17 wounded. In this hotel placed Paul Wolfowitz, the n°2 Pentagone visits some in Iraq since the day before.

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Monday October 27th 2003

  • California: the state of emergency is issued to fight against the gigantic fires.
  • With Baghdad, five attack-suicide of which one in front of the seat of the International committee of the Red Cross, for a total of 43 died, primarily of Iraqi.
  • Literature:
    • the Prix Femina is allotted to Dai Sijie, novelist of Chinese origin, for the Complex of Di
    • the Prix Médicis is allotted to Hubert Mingarelli for Four soldiers .
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Tuesday October 28th 2003

  • With Poitiers in France, first top of the presidents of 13 French areas (on 22) and of six länders German (on 16) around the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and of the chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
  • California: an provisional appraisal has given a report on 18 dead and fifteen hundred houses destroyed by the gigantic fires for one week.
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Wednesday October 29th 2003

  • Road safety: The first of the seventy automatic radars set up by the government at City-of-Wood (the Essonne) was ransacked last night with blows of mass. This automatic radar had been inaugurated by the Ministre of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy last Monday. The authorities intend to install surveillance cameras in order to ensure the safety of this radar… Anecdote: during the inauguration of this first radar, Nicolas Sarkozy was controlled to 103 km/h on the main road which led to this inauguration whereas speed is limited there to 70 km/h. Control was carried out by journalists of the magazine Auto More . Gilles de Robien, him, was controlled to 97 km/h at the same place.
  • About the attacks which American in Iraq undergo, President George W. Bush declares in front of the press: “ These attacks despaired against innocent civilians we will not make yield ”.
    • Of an average of 10 per day to ego of August, the attacks passed to an average of 25 by day, but according to the American proconsul Paul Bremer: “ 90% of the attacks occurs on less than 5% of the territory , and according to the Shiite dignitary Sheik Fadel Al-Sah Lani: ” Apart from the zone sunnite and of Baghdad, my things improve. The economic life starts again, there are food products on the markets, water and electricity returned ".
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Thursday October 30th 2003

  • France: The Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy visits in Corsica of it, denounces a “ gangster system ”.
  • In Russia:
    • In the Business Ioukos, after the arrest of Mikhaïl Khodorkovski, owner of the oil group Loukos, the parquet floor makes seize the share of 44% of the actions which it held personally, in the oil group, for an amount estimated at 15 billion US dollars. but it would have anticipated the operation and would not have any more, directly, that 9,5% of the actions, the company had just offered to its shareholders, a dividend record of 2 billion US dollars, thus recovered mainly by Mikhaïl Khodorkovski and the oligarch Roman Abramovitch, who holds 26% of the Ioukos group.
    • President Vladimir Poutine dismisses the chief of the presidential administration resulting from the Eltsine clan.
  • Iraq: According to a report/ratio of the Center for Public Integrity , the firms which divide the fabulous spoils of the rebuilding for 8 billion US dollars are those which helped the Bush candidate the most at the time of the election of November 2000.
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Friday October 31st 2003

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