October 2004

Wednesday October 6th 2004

• European Union: the commission recommended opening of negotiations for the widening of the European Union to the Turkey. The mediums close to the European commission recognize that the “invoice” of widening in Turkey could rise, by the play of the preparatory subsidies to adhesion, to 28 billion euros per annum, that is to say approximately one the third of the current budget of the Union, and that for one period of good ten années.
  As for the French minister in charge of the Relations with the Parliament, Henri Cuq, it released in small committee (reported remarks by Le Figaro , and confirmed by Libération ), in connection with the request for a debate followed by a vote to the National Assembly, “the UMP deputies who claim a vote can go to be made cook an egg! If a vote is organized, one leaves Ve République. ”
• World, economy: the price of the barrel of Pétrole reached the dimension record of 52 USD. Problems start to be made feel in transport, the fisheries sector and plastic industry.
• the United States of America: whereas the day before the vice-president Dick Cheney still declared: “of the evidence clearly establish the bond between Iraq and terrorism reason of fatal technology that Saddam Hussein developed and used during years”, the report/ratio of the American mission charged to inspect the Iraqi armament indicates that Saddam Hussein had neither stock nor programme of production of Arme of massive destruction between 1991 and 2003.
• Sweden: the Nobel Prize of chemistry 2004 was allotted to the Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and to the American Irwin Pink for their work on the degradation of proteins.

Thursday October 7th 2004

• Belgium: a new case of bovine spongiform Encephalopathy (ESB), the 127e in the country since 1997, is confirmed on a Vache dairy red magpie born in 1997.
• the king of the Kampuchea Norodom Sihanouk abdicated, thus plunging the country in a new crisis. See the facsimile of the signed official statement of the hand of the king
• China: presentation by the university of Qinghua with Beijing of new a Nuclear reactor with cooling by gas (flilière graphite-gas) of Chinese design.
• Sweden: the Nobel Prize of literature 2004 was allotted to the Autrichienne Elfriede Jelinek, for “the musical flood of voice and against-voice in its novels” and its criticism of the social stereotypes. AFP

Friday October 8th 2004

• Deuxième of the three debates for the American presidential election enters the president George W. Bush and her challenger, the senator John Kerry.
• Egypt, the Sinai: attacks anti-Israelis caused the death of 19 people and wounded more than one hundred of others. They took place in seaside resorts of the the Sinai, close to the border with Israel
• France: the explosion of a bomb, in front of the Embassy of Indonesia to Paris, wounded 10 people.
• One of the two tracks followed by the investigators is that of a political Attentat. Indeed, a email of claim was received Friday afternoon by the police station of the 16th district, emanating from a group baptized FIFA for armed French Islamic front. He claims the release of people imprisoned for their participation in the attacks in Paris in 1995.
• On this track, the police force stopped a man in a cybercafé of the place of Clichy. He sent the two emails in the name of the FIFA. He was put in examination for claim of attack.
• Friday evening, the track of a revenge following Licenciement S which took place recently among the personnel of the embassy, was evoked. The next Wednesday the 13th, the police force announced to have given up this track.
• Norway: the Nobel Prize of peace 2004 was decreed with the Kenya Wangari Maathai. AFP
• the United Kingdom: FBI seizes via the company Rackspace with the the United Kingdom, of the waiters IMC being used to lodge independent information, Free software and Streaming radio. Article.

Saturday October 9th 2004

• Afghanistan: presidential election with the Vote for all in Afghanistan.
• Seventeen candidates present themselves, of which a woman and the current president by interim, Hamid Karzai.
• Australia, elections legislative.
• Before the vote, the Prime Minister John Howard was credited with a positive economic assessment, but was seen reproaching by part of Australian for being itself committed in the war in Iraq, in 2003.
• John Howard obtains a fourth mandate of Prime Minister after the broad victory of the coalition of the conservative parties, which obtain the absolute majority of the seats.
• French Polynesia: the government with independence majority of the president Oscar Temaru was censured by the adoption at the assembly of the territory of two motions suggested by the senator and former president, Gaston Flosse (UMP).
• the United Kingdom, Scotland: the queen Elisabeth II inaugurated the new building of the Parlement of Scotland, in the center of Edinburgh.
• This building was drawn by the Catalan Architecte Enric Miralles, deceased in 2000.

Sunday October 10th 2004

• the United States: died of the American actor Christopher Reeve at 52 years of an heart attack. It had incarnated Superman with the cinema, and was tetraplegic since a fall of Cheval in 1995.
• Somalia: joined together with Nairobi, with the Kenya, by security measure, the Somali members of Parliament elected a president, the first since 1991. At 70 years, the former serviceman Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed was selected; in its first speech, it invited with the international assistance to continue the pacification of the country.

Monday October 11th 2004

• the United States: third and the last face to face between George W. Bush and John Kerry in Arizona

Tuesday October 12th 2004

• China: Alstom sign a contract for the supply of 16 oars of subway to the City of Shanghai

Wednesday October 13rd 2004

• Brazil: died of the Brazilian writer Fernand Sabino at 80 years of a cancer. He was the author of novels like O Encontro Marcado (the Appointment) and the naked Man .
• Sweden: the " Nobel Prize of économie" was decreed with Edward C. Prescott (the United States) and Finn E. Kydland (Norway) for their contribution to the theory of the dynamic Macroéconomie.
• the European Union raises its Embargo on the deliveries of Arme S to the Libya, thus reaching at the request of the Italy.
• Maxime Faget, engineer of NASA, which drew the capsule Mercury died in 82 years.

Thursday October 14th 2004

• Kampuchea: one week after the advertisement of the abdication of the king Norodom Sihanouk, the succession seems regulated. The Kampuchean Constitutional council having authorized, Monday October 11th, the Council of the Crown to appoint a new king, that indicated, unanimously his nine members, the prince Norodom Sihamoni, 51 years old, to succeed his father. This one had asserted its health declining and of the risks of disorder in the country if the succession were regulated after its death. The old one and new the kings will return from Beijing, where they remained, the October 20th, for a ceremony of crowning wanted without ostentation envisaged the October 29th.

Friday October 15th 2004

• Turkey: Mehdi Zana, husband of the former Kurdish deputy Leyla Zana, is stopped on her arrival in Istanbul after nine years of exile in Sweden. Article of the '' Serb Monde ''
• Republic of Bosnia: the president of the Serb République of Bosnia Dragan Čavić recognized the existence and the extent of the massacre of Srebrenica, where several Moslem thousands of were assassinated by the Serb forces in July 1995. Article of the '' Monde ''

Saturday October 16th 2004

• French Polynesia: more than 15.000 people ravel with PAPEETE to ask the dissolution of the territorial Parliament and new elections.
• France: died of the American journalist Pierre Salinger, former officer of press of the presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, it had lived for four years in the south of France, fleeing the Bush administration.
• France: creation of an urban natural park of 890 hectares in full heart of the Hauts-de-Seine. Article of the '' Monde ''.
• France: the Minister delegated to the Elderly and Mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco, elected Senate or UMP of the VAr the previous month, announces its imminent departure of the government. Article of the '' Monde ''.

Sunday October 17th 2004

• Bielorussia: adoption by a Referendum of a reform nelle Constitution allowing the president Aliaksandr Loukachenka to be able to exert more than two mandates.
• During the following week, of the opponents to the mode of Loukachenka expresses against this referendum because of possible irregularities in the organization of the Scrutin.
• Brazil: starting from aujourd' today between in force the law which allows the Brazilian air forces (Força Aérea Brasileira) to intercept, oblige to land and to even cut down the planes which invade the airspace, especially of the Amazonia. The shooting could be given only after the execution of a list of notice in nine points and the personal authorization of the commander of aviation. This measurement enters within the framework of the fight against the drug trafficking.

Monday October 18th 2004

• France: died of Michel Gillibert, former Secretary of State with Handicapped under François Mitterrand.
• Brazil: the Asteca cow, evaluated to 2,8 million reais (1 million dollars), died struck down. Its owner was not assured. This cow was “fournisseuse” of embryos.

Tuesday October 19th 2004

• Failures: the Russian Vladimir Kramnik preserves his championship of the world. It obtained a score of 7 points against 7 after 14 matches played against the Hungarian Peter Lékó, with Brissago (Suisse).
• France: pose first Rail TGV Is with Saint-Hilaire-with-Temple (Marne) by the Minister for Transport, Gilles de Robien.
• Burma: dismissal by the military junta of the Prime Minister Khin Nyunt

Wednesday October 20th 2004

• France: EDF announces that the construction of the first engine EPR (English initials of European engine with pressurized water) will be done on the site of Flamanville (Manche).
• Lebanon: the Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned and thus gives up forming a government reformist. He essuyait since several times the opposition of the president Emile Lahoud, itself supported by the Syria. Legislative elections are envisaged in Lebanon in spring 2005.
• China: explosion in a coal mine. There are 82 missings.

Thursday October 21st 2004

• France: inauguration of the Air terminal momentary of the Airport of Vatry (the Marne).
• Lebanon: Omar Karamé is named Prime Minister to replace Rafiq Hariri
• Sport automobile: the Spanish pilot Carlos Sainz, double champion of the world of the rallys (1990, 1992), announces that it puts a term at his career.

Friday October 22nd 2004

• French Polynesia: the twenty-nine representatives of Tahoeraa will huiraatira and of the group You Macaw, joined together on the convocation of the third vice-president, Lana Tetuanui, elected Gaston Flosse president of Polynesia.

• Business Mohamed Al-Durah: France 2 diffuses the complete videotape hidden hitherto. The journalist presents conclude that the business was a setting in scene and that nothing indicates that Mohamed Al-Durah died.

Saturday October 23rd 2004

• Japan: Seism of Niigata, at least 31 died and more than 2530 wounded, 6,8 magnitude (scale of Richter); the Sismologue S Japanese baptized it “ Niigata-ken Chuetsu Jishin 2004 ”.
• France: eighth case of new varying Disease of Creutzfeldt-Jacob; this case raises concerns because the patient is a regular blood donor.
• Kosovo, Serbia-and-Montenegro: legislative elections in the province under administration of the the United Nations. The national minorities of Kosovo (Serb, Roms, etc) are ensured of a representation of 20 seats out of the 120 to provide. The hundred other seats are subjected to a vote proportional.
• the party of Ibrahim Rugova carries the majority of the seats. The minority has Boycott E the poll.

Sunday October 24th 2004

• Brazil: launching of the first Brazilian space rocket successfully.
• Cameroun: presidential election and re-election of the president Paul Biya, 71 years, with the capacity since 1982. Its opponent obtains 17,4% and believes in frauds.
• president Biya is a Head of State who appears little publicly in his country, and even at the time of the international tops. Fears start to feel in Cameroun in the event of death because the duties would be taken over temporarily by the president of the Senate according to the Constitution of 1996. However, this institution is still not created.
• Tunisia: elections presidential and legislative in Tunisia. The president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, candidate for his re-election, was elected with 94,49% of the voices.
• At the Parliament, the party of the president, the Constitutional Democratic Assembly (RCD) obtains the 152 seats by the majority vote; opposition parties dividing the 37 seats subjected to the poll proportional.

Monday October 25th 2004

• Alexandria, Egypt: establishment of the orthodoxe patriarch Greek Theodore II like patriarch of Alexandria and all the Africa. It replaces Pétros VII, died in an accident of Hélicoptère the September 11th 2004.
• Thailand: the repression of a Manifestation makes 68 dead.
• France: First emissions of the chain Pink TV, intended for the homosexual public .

Tuesday October 26th 2004

• India: the company Mittal Steel Company becomes the first world producer of Acier, in front of Arcelor, by taking the control of American International Steel Group.
• Israel: the Knesset voted the withdrawal of Gaza suggested by the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, with the support of voice of the workers party. AFP

Wednesday October 27th 2004

• Brazil: died of an heart attack on the ground, during a part against the club of São Paulo, of the player of Football Serginho of the team of São Caetano. This event creates shock national more especially as a recent medical examination had indicated a problem of heart and that the helps, which were shown on line on television, were considered to be insufficient on the ground of the Morumbi (São Paulo) which is best equipped in Brazil after the Maracanã with Rio de Janeiro.
• Indonesia: discovered skeleton of a new branch of the mankind called Homo florisiensis.
• European Union: vis-a-vis the possibility of seeing the the European Parliament refusing to invest the news European commission the very same day, Jose Manuel Durão Barroso makes step back and request the postponement of the vote so that it can hold new consultations. Several parliamentary groups dispute the presence of the Italy N Rocco Buttiglione in the Commission after its remarks on the homosexual ones and the place of the women, held before a European parliamentary commission.

Thursday October 28th 2004

• Sciences: total eclipse of the Moon between 2:23 and 4:53 (universal time). The Moon, eclipsed by the shade of the Earth, will slightly remain visible in the form of a reddish disc. The eclipse is observable in South America, with the the Antilles, in North America (except the west), in Europe and in the west of the Africa. Observable phenomenon in France between 4:23 and 6:53, local time. More…

Friday October 29th 2004

• Southeast Asia: Six countries of the basin of the Mekong (Vietnam, China, Laos, Thailand, Kampuchea, Union of Myanmar) signed a memorandum in order to fight against the traffic of human beings.
• Belgium: burden with the STIB with Brussels. The buses of the company of Lijn circulated nevertheless in the capital.
• France: fusion of the companies Sagem and Snecma announces to set up a new group in the Aéronautique, the electronic related to Defense and the Télécommunications. The State will hold 35% of the capital of this group, which is equivalent to a Privatization in fact of Snecma.
• Liberia: violent interreligieuses riots in the capital Monrovia giving place to the plundering of the places of worship (Mosque S and church S). The assessment of November 2nd gives a report on 16 dead and 200 wounded. The Mission of the United Nations in Liberia (MINUL) tries to make respect the curfew.
• Palestine: Yasser Arafat, seriously patient, is transferred towards the military Hôpital Percy to Clamart, close to Paris.
• the United Kingdom: died of Alice, duchess of Gloucester, at the 102 years age. She was the widow of Henry, duke of Gloucester, third wire of the king George V, and aunt by marriage of the queen Elisabeth II. After the queen mother Elisabeth, known as “Queen Mum”, deceased in 2002 at the 101 years age, it was the second centenary in the British royal family.
• European Union: the heads of state and government of the Member States of the European Union meet in Rome (Italy) to sign the treaty on the Constitution of the Union. This treated will have to be then ratified in each country either by a vote of the Parliament, or by Référendum.
• the Near East: Al-Jezira diffuses a video of Usama Bin Laden, in which he admits his responsibility in the attacks for the September 11th, 2001 and enjoint the US government to avoid a new attack while ceasing endangering the Moslems abroad.

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Saturday October 30th 2004

• France, apnea “No limit”: Loïc Leferme beats the world records (- 171 m). Monde.
• Commission: the Italy N Rocco Buttiglione announced its resignation of the commission chaired by Jose Manuel Durão Barroso.
• Iraq: discovered with Baghdad of the decapitated body of Shosei Koda, routard Japan board 24 years old, of which removal had been asserted Tuesday, October 26 by the group of the islamist terrorist Jordanian Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui, which required the withdrawal under 48 hours of the Japanese troops operating in Iraq (approximately 500 men, working officially in the rebuilding of the country).

Sunday October 31st 2004

• Brazil: second turn of the municipal elections in 44 municipalities. There is of second possible turn only in the municipalities of more than 200.000 inhabitants. In the majority of the cases, the competition is between Pt (left the current president Luís Inácio da Silva) and the PSDB (left the preceding president Fernando Henrique Cardoso).

• Ukraine: first turn of the presidential election. The principal candidates are current the Prime Minister Viktor Ianoukovitch and the opponent former chief of the government Viktor Iouchtchenko. The Point

• Ianoukovitch has the support of the outgoing president Leonid Koutchma and is in favor of a policy of bringing together with the Russia.
• Iouchtchenko wishes to go towards more Démocratie and to approach the European Union.
• Uruguay: presidential election.

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