February 2004

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Sunday 2004

  • In France
    • With Paris, 50e birthday of the call of the Abbot Pierre against the exclusion, which took place at the time of the winter 1954.
    • the president Jacques Chirac request the creation of a board of inquiry into the effractions and the pressures of which would have had to undergo the magistrates of Nanterre having had to follow the file of the Affaire of the fictional jobs of the town hall of Paris in which is implied Alain Juppe.
  • Saudi Arabia: 244 pilgrims find death at the time of a scuffle during the ritual of lapidation with Mina with Mecque.
  • the United States: During its spectacle, at the half-time of the finale of the Super Bowl, the star of the showbiz Janet Jackson watch its right center. It will follow a press campaign known under the name of Nipplegate.
  • Iraq: Double attack-suicide, with Erbil with the Kurdistan, against the buildings of two political parties, combined American, the Democratic party of Kurdistan (DPK) of Massoud Barzani, and the patriotic Union of Kurdistan) (PUK) of Jalal Talabani. : 105 dead of which the governor of the province.
  • Sudan: According to Amnesty International, whereas the committed peace process with the popular Army of release of Sudan (APLS), activates in the south of the country, is about to succeed, the Sudanese islamist government engaged the militia Janjawid supported by the army against the populations of the Darfur in the west of the country where since February 2003, the Army of release of Sudan (ALS) took the weapons against the government.
    • Of the bombardments takes place against the villages and the small towns of the area, killing out of the thousands of civilians and destroying the dwellings. On the ground the populations (men, women, children, babies in low-age) are massacred by the militiamans and the soldiers.
    • Plus of 600.000 people has flees the campaigns in direction of the other cities of Darfur and more than 90000 people crossed the border towards Chad
  • Vietnam: the the World Health Organization evokes the possibility of two cases of transmission “interhumaine” of the virus responsible for the avian flu epidemic which started with the autumn 2003.
  • Sports:
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Monday February 2nd 2004

  • In France:
    • Following the request of president Jacques Chirac concerning the creation of a board of inquiry into the effractions and the pressures of which would have had to undergo the magistrates of Nanterre having had to follow the file of the Affaire of the fictional jobs of the town hall of Paris in which is implied Alain Juppe, the parquet floor of Nanterre opens legal information.
    • From February 2nd to 6th, with Villepinte in Seine-Saint-Denis, 20th national congress of the trade union Working force, or many speakers showed a “ desire of in découdre ”, but the current reformist remains powerful and influential.
  • the United States: The president George W. Bush announces the creation of a board of inquiry on the furnished informations by the intelligence services with proposes existence of weapons of massive destruction in Iraq, with a report/ratio planned for March 2005.
  • Israel/Palestine :
    • Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announces within “one or two years ”, a plan of “ evacuation of seventeen colonies of the Gaza Strip ”, which represent 7.500 colonists, and precise: “ I leave the principle that, in the future, there will be no more Jews in Gaza ”.
    • This advertisement precipitates many reactions:
      • Outcry of the colonists, the right wing of Likoud and extreme Israeli line.
      • Skepticism of the Israeli left. Shimon Peres, chief of the Workers party declares: “ To plan, it is not to apply ”.
      • the Palestinian minister in charge of the negotiations with Israel, Saeb Erekat, declares: “ I fear that once more, we deal with exercise of public relations ”.
  • Astronomy: the atmosphere of the Exoplanète '' HD 209458b '' of its small name Osiris would conceal Oxygène and Carbone. This new observation was made by astronomers of the Institut of astrophysics of Paris thanks to the space telescope Hubble.
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Tuesday February 3rd 2004

  • In France:
    • the bill on the Laïcité at the school is presented by the Prime Minister to the National Assembly to be discussed.
    • the former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, condemned the January 30th to 18 months of suspended sentence and 10 years of ineligibility by the magistrates' court of Nanterre, announces on line on the 20 hour old newspaper of TF1, which it is maintained with his responsibilities and in its mandates, while waiting for his appeal, to ensure his changing the town hall of Bordeaux and the presidency of the UMP.
      • At the same time was held on line a media scandal with the newspaper of France 2, the presenter David Pujadas on the order of the director of information Olivier Mazerolle who wanted to make a media move, announces the “ progressive withdrawal ” of Alain Juppe of the political life, whereas this one was spirit to say the opposite on the other chain. This boob will involve the resignation of the person in charge.
      • Behind this design of information where the scoop and speed take precedence over the veracity and the reflection raises the question of the function of a television of public service.
  • the United States: During a maintenance to the Washington Post, the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, states to be unaware of if it would have recommended to attack the Iraq if the intelligence services had indicated to him that the country did not have weapons of massive destruction, but confirms that the Iraqi mode represented a “ threat ” and “ taking into account what the intelligence services had presented, we believe that stocks existed ”, and that this war “ it was the good thing to make ”.
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Wednesday February 4th 2004

  • the United Kingdom: The Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledges, at the time of a debate to the House of Commons which he was unaware of the true nature of the Iraqi arsenal as well as the degree of reliability of the contained informations in the governmental file of September 2002, of which he had made state in his speech of 18 March 2003, two days before the release of the intervention in Iraq.
    • Michael Howard, chief of the conservative party, requires his resignation. The cabinet of the Prime Minister retorts by denouncing the “ revisionism ” media.
  • Pakistan: At the time of a “ confession” televised, the director of the Pakistani nuclear program of 1976 with 2001, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan recognizes his “ full responsibility ” in the nuclear technology transfer towards the Libya, the Iran and the North Korea.
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Thursday February 5th 2004

  • Ivory Coast: the president Jacques Chirac receives in the Elysium the president Laurent Gbagbo for a maintenance of “ reconciliation ”.
  • Pakistan: Following the “ confession” televised of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf affirms that “ no soldier or person in charge of the government is implied in the nuclear technology transfer towards the Libya, the Iran and the North Korea and also announces that Pakistan will carry out soon a test of the Missile Shaheen II, capable of a range of two thousand kilometers, and precise that “ no document will be given, no independent investigation will take place here, and we will not authorize the United Nations to come ”.
    • Scott McClellan, the spokesperson of the White House declares: “ This network of proliferation does not exist any more. The acts of Pakistan broke it ”.
  • Haiti: The fourth city of the country, Gonaïves is taken by the rebels who claim the resignation of the president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and decide to continue their progression towards the capital.
  • Russia: Ivan Rybkine, former transitory president of the Duma in 1994, and candidate with the presidential election of the next March 14th, disappears mysteriously.
    • Credited with less than 1% with the voices, it is supported by the oligarch Boris Berezovski since London where this last lives in exile
  • Serbia: Dragan Marsicanin of the Democratic party of Serbia (DSS) is elected with the presidency of the Parliament, with the support and the support of the Serb Socialist party (SPS) of the former president Slobodan Milošević. It assumes at the same time the chairmanship of the Republic by interim.
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Friday February 6th 2004

  • NATO: During the meeting of the Ministers for defense, with Munich, Donald Rumsfeld declares: “ the United States estimates that NATO can and should play a larger part at the same time in Afghanistan and Iraq ”.
  • France:
    • Following the media boob of February 3rd, the 400 journalists of the chain France 2 judge that the boob is enormous and reveals a drift. Finally they vote the distrust: “ For what a public television is used if they must function according to the two standards of the information-spectacle; “speed” (to inform in real-time, too quickly to reflect) and “Emotion” (the proximity, the interview-pavement, small inordinately inflated things because one believes the public unable to be interested in large)? ”
    • André Mangin a 32 years pédomane is condemned to 15 years of imprisonment for several rapes and sexual assaults.
  • Iraq: from February 6th to 13rd, the special representative of UNO, Algerian Lakhdar Brahimi, directs an exploratory mission on the “ feasibility ” of direct elections before June 30th.
  • Israel/Palestine : The Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz , indicates that the plan of “ evacuation of seventeen colonies of the Gaza Strip ”, announced the February 2nd by Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, would have as a counterpart a reinforcement of colonization in the West Bank.
  • Russia, with Moscow: Attack with the explosive the morning at the rush hour in an oar of Subway. The provisional appraisal gives a report of 39 dead and more on 120 wounded.
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Saturday February 7th 2004

  • NATO: from February 7th to 8th, annual conference on the Security policy.
  • France: The trade union Working force, elects with 94% of the voices, its new general secretary Jean-Claude Mailly (51 years) to replace Marc Blondel. The end of the Blondel era could open one period of instability in the central trade-union.
  • the Vatican: The pope Jean-Paul II requested Friday so that the marked priests of sexual abuses are judged with impartiality while recalling that the essential need “ ” was to protect the young people. the pope stressed that there was a “ notable increase ” of the number of files, since January 2002 and the scandal of the priests paedophiles in the United States. Tens of priests had been transferred of parish in parish instead of being punished for their crimes. These facts would concern 325 American priests out of the 46.000 exerting their ministry.
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Sunday February 8th 2004

  • France: with Paris, the UMP joins together its 2nd congress in which 12.000 people take part who acclaim Alain Juppe.
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Monday February 9th 2004

  • France: 14th day of strike of the journalists of inter-union of Radio France. All the radios are differently touched. A declaration of the direction of Radio France is awaited in the course of the day.
  • Iraq: The American general Mark Kimmit announces the seizure of a document detailing a plan of civil war. This document would be allotted to Abou Moussab Zarqaoui, activist jourdanien of Al-Qaïda whose head is already put at price for 10 million US dollars.
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Tuesday February 10th 2004

  • In France:
    • the project of French Loi on the religious signs in the schools was adopted in first reading by the National Assembly, with 494 votes against 36. The group UMP and groups it PS voted for this law.
    • the Italian writer Cesare Battisti is imprisoned with the Prison of Health to Paris for its extradition towards the Italy. Cesare Battisti in particular is condemned and sought by Italian justice to have made two murders one with Venice, the other with Milan “ the same day and per same hour? ”.
  • the United States: John Kerry gains the primary educations of Virginia and the Tennessee by beating John Edwards and Wesley Clark which decides on its withdrawal of the competition.

  • Algeria: The parquet floor of Paris opens legal information “against X” relating to the removal and the assassination of the French monks of Tibéhirine in 1996.

  • Iraq: With Iskandariyah in the south of Baghdad, new attack against a police station: 55 police candidates are killed.
  • Iran: Of passage to Paris, the prince Reza Pahlavi, wire heir to the Shah of Iran, declared: “ Same behaviors in perfect legality, of the elections would not have any value. The Parliament does not have the capacity to make the laws. Iran is a theocracy (...) where to dare pener freely and to decide on its own future is regarded as the arrogance of the infidel. ”
  • Russia: Ivan Rybkine, candidate with the presidential election, and disappeared mysteriously on February 5th, reappears also mysteriously, and explains why it had gone to rest “ in friends ” with Kiev.
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Wednesday February 11th 2004

  • In France:
    • Following the media boob of the newspaper of France 2, the presenter David Pujadas is suspended for two weeks.
    • the project of French Loi on the serious crime presented by the minister Dominique Perben is voted by 340 votes against 173.
    • In the Affaire of the government contracts of Ile-de-France, the 47 people put in examination are returned, by the judge Armand Riberolles in front of the Magistrates' court of Paris. Among them, Michel Roussin, former principal private secretary of Jacques Chirac to the Town hall of Paris.
    • the tax services of Nice refuse to provide to the president Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a certificate of tax domiciliation enabling him to arise and lead the list of its party to the next regional elections in PACA.
  • Iraq: With Baghdad, new car bomb attack against a recruitment center of the new Iraqi army: 36 killed military candidates.
  • Tunisia: In Football, the Tunisia and the Morocco were qualified (against the Nigeria and the Mali respectively) for the final of the Coupe of Africa of the nations which will be played Saturday, February 14.
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Thursday February 12th 2004

  • France:
    • Following the media boob of the newspaper of France 2 of February 3rd, the SCUMS declares: France 2 “ did not respect its obligation of good information of the spectators ”.
    • Following the refusal of the tax services to provide a certificate of tax domiciliation, Jean-Marie Le Pen addresses a request to the admnistratif court of Nice, which rejects it on February 14th.
  • Iraq: With Falloujah, assassination attempt with the rocket against the car transporting the general John Abizaid, chief of the American central command (Centcom).
  • Israel-Palestine : The Israeli government decides to boycott the audiences of the the International Court of Justice on the question of the wall of safety in the course of construction by Israel about the territory of the the West Bank. The court had been seized the December 8th, 2004 on decision of the General meeting of UNO.
  • Russia: Ivan Rybkine, candidate with the presidential election, disappeared mysteriously on February 5th, then reappeared also mysteriously, declares since London, where it joined the oligarch Boris Berezovski, that it indeed was removed and doped and that its preceding declarations “ were false ” and had been made “ under the constraint ”.
  • the Vatican: The pope Jean-Paul II receives Palestinian the Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei.
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Friday February 13rd 2004

Saturday February 14th 2004

  • In France: The future Porte-avions French will be with traditional propulsion (Diesel) and not nuclear power like the Charles de Gaulle . Since the the United Kingdom also chose this option to him, the two States are happiness of this choice.
  • Italy: Death of Marco Pantani. The champion cyclist, former winner of the turn of France and the Giro was found died in his hotel of Rimini. According to the Italian news agency Ansa, medicinal products were discovered near the body, but it would not be about a suicide. An autopsy should reveal the causes of its cardiac arrest.
  • Launching of the Arabic television channel financed by the the United States Al-Hurra
  • Iraq: The guerilla succeeds in taking again during one hour the control of the town of Falloujah.
  • Sport S:
    • In Football, the Tunisia gained its first continental title by beating the Morocco (2-1) at the time of the finale of the Coupe of Africa of the nations to Tunis.
    • In Rugby, the France gained its match against the Ireland (35-17) at the time of the first day of the Tournoi of the six nations.
    • In Cycling, the Italian Marco Pantani, victorious of the Tour de France and the Giro of Italy in 1998 is found died in a hotel of Rimini. It was 34 years old and was implied in businesses of doping since 1999.
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Sunday February 15th 2004

  • Serbia: Political agreement for the constitution of a coalition government, between the Democratic party of Serbia (DSS), the Serb Left the revival (SPO, monarchist) of Vuk Drašković and the G-17 More (liberal). The Serb Socialist party (SPS) reserve its decision of support.
  • Space: With Seattle, an international team of astronomers announces the discovery of the most remote Galaxie ever observed. She is located at a distance of thirteen billion light-years.
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Monday February 16th 2004

  • Israel: from February 16th to 19th, visit of State in France of the president of the Israeli republic, Moshe Katsav, the first since that of the president Chaim Herzog in 1988.
  • Italy: The first results of the autopsy practiced on the body of the cyclist Marco Pantani, found died in its hotel room last Saturday, give a report of a cerebral edema and a pulmonary Embolie, without precision of their origin.
  • Serbia: Commenting on the political agreement for the constitution of a coalition government, the high representative of the European Union for the foreign politics Javier Solana declares: “ We do not think that this decision goes in the right direction ”.
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Tuesday February 17th 2004

  • In France:
    • the Airline company Littoral Air (444 paid) as its subsidiary company of Littoral Air maintenance industry (167 paid) are put in Compulsory liquidation by the bankruptcy court of Montpellier.
    • the German company BASF is put in examination, by a judge of Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne), within the framework of an investigation into the suspect surmortality of the bees in the environments where one was used their products.
    • According to a report/ratio of the Conseil of employment, incomes and social cohesion (CERC), a million children would live under the Poverty line in France (1170 euros monthly for a couple with a child), but would be two million if the European poverty line is retained. The single-parent families and the large families would be exposed to poverty because the most touched by unemployment. 45% of the poor children have a school delay (24% on the whole of the pupils).
  • Haiti: The main cities of the country have been in prey with a Civil war between insurrectionists and the relatively weak police force of the current government, the army being dissolved for a few years.
  • Mexico: death of Jose López Portillo, president between 1976 and 1982.
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Wednesday February 18th 2004

  • France: Following the refusal of the tax services to provide a certificate of tax domiciliation, the regional prefect Christian Frémont refuses to validate the candidature of Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • Europe: With Berlin, top deprived between the French president Jacques Chirac, the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and British the Prime Minister Tony Blair, devoted to the economic questions and social, but also, in slides, with future the European Constitution, the Iraq, the Afghanistan and the the Middle East.
    • Negative reactions of the large European countries not invited like the Italy, the Spain and the Poland.
  • Niger: Accidental death of the scenario writer French documentarist Jean Rouch at the 86 years age. According to the police force native of Niger, it is a heavy truck which was parked without any indication which caused the death of Jean Rouch, Wednesday evening with approximately sixteen kilometers of Birnin Konni (center), not far from the border of the Nigeria.
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Thursday February 19th 2004

  • France: Following the refusal of the tax services to provide a certificate of tax domiciliation, Jean-Marie Le Pen seized the admnistratif court of Marseilles, which gives an negative opinion on February 22nd.
  • Iraq: Assessment of killed among the forces of the coalition on the ground:
    • the United States: March 2003 (65) - April (73 - May (37) - June (30) - July (47) - August (35) - September (30) - October (43) - November (82) - December (39) - January 2004 (49).
    • total other countries of March 2003 in January 2004: The United Kingdom (56) - Italy (17) - Ukraine (1) - Spain (8) - Poland (2) - Netherlands (0) - Australia (0)

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Friday February 20th 2004

  • Belgium: The bill granting the non-European abroads, the right to vote with the communal elections is adopted by the House of Commons by 80 votes against 58. The condition is that the foreigner has resided for at least five years in the country.
  • Serbia: Following the political agreement for the constitution of a coalition government, Vojislav Koštunica is charged to form the new government.
  • Iran: Victoire of the conservatives to the legislative elections, 156 elected officials against 39 with the reformers. Rate of participation is approximately 50,7% (figure disputed by the conservatives). Many reformers had called with the boycott to protest against the invalidation of their candidatures,
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Saturday February 21st 2004

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Sunday February 22nd 2004

  • Europe: Official creation of the European Left the greens to the Capitole with Rome.
  • the United States: according to the newspaper To observe , “ American military officials ” would have censured a report/ratio ordered by the Pentagone, according to which the climate changes are likely to involve a planetary catastrophe and represent a threat much more serious than terrorism. The brutal climate changes could put planet at the edge of anarchy and of the nuclear war because of a rarefaction of food, water and energy sources. http://millenaires.free.fr/index.php?m=200402
  • Haiti: The rebels seize the second city of the country Cape-Haitian and thus control all the north of the island.
  • Israel-Palestine : New attack-suicide in a bus of Jerusalem, asserted by the Brigade of the Al-Aqsa martyrs: 8 killed Israeli civilians and 62 wounded.
    • the Israeli Minister for the Foreign affairs Silvan Shalom declares: “ This attack proves how much construction an end of safety is essential ”.
    • This attack is denounced by the Palestinian Autorité and its Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei invites with “ to put a term at such acts, because they serve as a pretext for Israel to continue the construction of the mor, the assassinations and the raids against the Palestinian civilians ”.
  • Turkey: from February 22nd to 24th, official visit of the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder which expresses her position in favor of the integration of Turkey in the European Union, and is aligned on this point with the position defended by the US government. It is about the first official visit of a German chancellor since that of Helmut Kohl in 1993.
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Monday February 23rd 2004

  • In France:
    • Following the refusal of the tax services to provide a certificate of tax domiciliation, and Jean-Marie Le Pen having tried without success a certain number of recourse, the political office of the Front National appoints the lawyer Guy Macary, outgoing president of group FN at the district council of PACA, like chief candidate for the regional elections.
    • After the company BASF, it is with the tower of the company Bayer AG to be put in examination, within the framework of an investigation on the suspect surmortality of the bees in the environments where one was used their products.
      • In the evening, the Ministère of Agriculture announces the suspension of the authorization of marketing of the Insecticide Régent, while leaving free the use of stocks in progress.
      • the active matter of the Regent is the Fipronil which one finds in the two products, the Gaucho and the Régent , suspected of being at the origin of the noted surmortality of the bees. This product is suspected, not only dangerous for the Abeille S but also for the Homme. A study of deepening will be organized on this subject by the French Agence of public health of the food (AFSSA).
    • Arlette Chabot is named executive vice president in charge of the information of France 2 and thus succeeds Olivier Mazerolle which had resigned of its station the February 11th after the precipitated advertisement, the February 3rd in the Journal 20 hour old of the “ progressive withdrawal ” of Alain Juppe of the political life. This advertisement had opened an serious attack within the drafting of the public channel.
    • a Séisme of a magnitude 5,1 was felt in the east of France in end of the afternoon, with 18:31. The epicentre would be located close to the commune of Balsam-the-Ladies (Doubs), with 14 kilometers of Besancon whose center town was plunged in the black during one hour. The jolt was felt of Strasbourg to Lyon.
      • Articles: Le Figaro, Arranges Reuters, Nouvel Obs, France Television.

  • Hungary: from February 24th to 25th, official visit of the French president Jacques Chirac with Budapest. In its speech, at the Hungarian Parliament, he pleads for a Europe of Defense.

  • Colombia: This day is also the birthday day of the removal of Ingrid Betancourt in 2002. A Manifestation took place with Paris for its release as that of the nine hundred hostages who are retained in the Colombian Jungle by the FARCS.
  • Haiti: The insurrectionists enter Cape-Haitian and walk on Port-au-Prince. The opposition requires the departure of the president Jean-Bertrand Aristide whereas the international community is long in intervening.
  • India: At least 6 people died and 5 others wounded in an explosion at the Space center of Satish Dhawan (Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh).
  • Iraq: The Algerian Lakhdar Brahimi, special delegate of UNO, charged to study the “ feasibility ” of legislative elections, publishes his report, in which it fixes at eight after the definition of an electoral law, the necessary delay with the organization of a poll.
  • Iran: The Iranian government accepts, at the request of three European countries (France, Germany and the United Kingdom), to completely suspend its activities in the field of uranium enrichment, as from the month of March 2004.
  • Israel-Palestine : from February 23rd to 25th, the the International Court of Justice examines the question of the legality of the Israeli wall in the West Bank.

  • Wikipedia : the free, collaborative and multilingual encyclopedia comprises from now on 500.000 articles , in addition to fifty different languages, against 137.000 in January 2003.

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Tuesday February 24th 2004

  • $the Hague: New carryforward of the lawsuit of Slobodan Milošević, former Yugoslav president in front of the International penal court because of its bad health. Sunday, it is the judge who had resigned for health reasons.
  • Russia: The Russian president Vladimir Poutine dismisses all the government of Mikhaïl Kasianov (near to Boris Ieltsine) while stating: “ This resignation is not related to the work of the government, which I consider overall satisfactory, but with the will to show my position on the direction which the country must take after March 14th ”. The duties are taken over temporarily by the Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko.

  • the United States: The president George W. Bush asked the Congrès to approve the constitutional amendment banishing the marriage between people of the same sex.

  • Iran: The shortly after decision qu Iranian government to completely suspend its activities in the field of uranium enrichment, as from the month of March 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) publishes a new report and worries about important “the omissions ” of Teheran.
  • Morocco: A Séisme of magnitude 6,3 shook the north of the Morocco and the Straits of Gibraltar to 2:27 making 571 dead (assessment of the 27). The most touched cities are Im Zouren and Has Kamra, located at ten kilometers in the south and the south-west of Al-Hoceima in the Rif. The days according to know many counterparts.
    • the population expresses her anger in front of the slowness of the helps.
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Wednesday February 25th 2004

  • France:
    • During an investigation for flight, close to Rognac in the Rhone delta, the gendrames fell on a pédomane Belgian recidivist 44 years, in possession on its computer of thousands of stereotypes with character paedophile, of which some seem to be taken in the buildings even of the discovery.
    • the Commission Report of inquiry parliamentary into the heat wave of the summer 2003, is adopted. It underlines “ deficiencies of the health systems and the alarm systems ” as well as a “ deprives in the political management of this crisis ”.
    • According to a study of Datops concerning the place of the Front National on the discussion forums or newsgroup S:
      • Front National is the most visible party on the French forums of discussion on Internet, and Jean-Marie Le Pen is one of the politicians most visible with the same level as the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister.
      • the discussions relating to Front National are twice longer of many messages than the discussions on the whole of the other parties, For or against the Net surfers speak much about the program of the FN.
      • the strategy frontist on the forums consists to communicate officially and let the militants occupy the ground of the debate. It included/understood, well before others, the policy issue which Internet represents, which allows “ to take to the temperature ” population without the filter of the media and constitutes a good vector of diffusion of the ideas. The FN has nearly 150 sites into clean.

  • North Korea: Opening to Beijing of talks on the nuclear program North-Korean.

  • Haiti: The rebels reject the international plan, presented on February 21st, and whereas their troops threaten the capital, the France require the resignation of the president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
    • This last retorts the following day on CNN: “ I will leave the palate on February 7th, 2006 ”.
  • Cinema: The new film of Mel Gibson, the Passion of Christ, leaves to the the United States in a climate polemical sharp.
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Thursday February 26th 2004

  • Europe: An international operation of police force, carried out Thursday in ten countries of the world, made it possible to dismantle several active networks of pédomanes via the Internet, starting from forty sites. This investigation clarified a hierarchical structure complexes and very organized.
  • Macedonia: the president Macedonian Boris Trajkovski commits suicide in a air crash in the south out of the Bosnia-Herzégovine.
  • the United Kingdom: Old the Minister for International expansion, Clare Show, declared with the radio operator BBC that the British spies intercepted regularly, on order of the Prime Minister Tony Blair, the communications within UNO, including those of Kofi Annan.
    • the Prime Minister Tony Blair has reacts while declaring: “ In the context of a total terrorism (...), to evoke the work of the security agents or their operations (...) would amount putting in danger the safety of the country ”.

  • With the the United States:

  • Japan: the authorities of monitoring of the Concurrence inspect the offices of Microsoft in Japan to check suspicions of violation of the Lois anti-monopoly.
  • Space, with Kourou: to 20 minutes of takeoff, the launching of the Sonde Rosetta was deferred 12 midnight due to relatively strong winds in altitude. This probe must accomplish a voyage ten years to go to study closely the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This launching is a test after the last failure of the rocket ARIANE 5 the December 12th 2002.
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Friday February 27th 2004

  • European Union: Pascal Lamy, European Commissioner with the trade confirmed the application by the European Union of the sanctions authorized by OMC against the the United States. Starting from March 1st 2004, the customs duties on some 1600 products states-uniens will be gradually raised as long as the the United States will not have repealed the law on the “foreign dirty corporations”.
  • France:

  • With the the United States:

  • Haiti: Meeting with Paris of Dominique de Villepin and Joseph Philippe Antonio, respectively Minister of the foreign affairs of the France and Haiti.
  • Japan: Shoko Asahara of its true name Chizuo Matsumoto , directing it (guru) of the Sect Aum Shinrikyo, person in charge of the attack to the gas sarin which had killed 12 people and had wounded 5.000 other people in 1995 in the subway of Tokyo, is condemned to died by Pendaison.
  • Space, with Kourou: new carryforward of the takeoff of ARIANE 5 for one week; a thermal tile of protection was detached from the fuselage. This type of incident reminds us the catastrophe of the Space shuttle Columbia.
  • Internet: The company VeriSign, charged to make function the waiters of domain names Internet has just attacked, with the the United States ICANN for “abuse of authority”. This one had indeed prohibited to him the installation of http://www.sitefinder.com, a gate or was redirected automatically the Net surfers having typed an invalid address.
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Saturday February 28th 2004

  • In France: With the 19 {{E}} Victories of the music, the large winner is the group Mickey 3D with three victories (album rock'n'roll of the year, clip of the year, original song of the year) with equality with Kyo. In the categories of better interpreter, the winners are Calogero and Carla Bruni.
  • Taiwan: A human chain of 2.500.000 people was formed to express against the redeployment of the Chinese missiles.
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Sunday February 29th 2004

  • Spain: Interception of a van charged with 500 kg with explosives. The vehicle was to explode in Madrid.
  • the United Kingdom: According to the newspaper “Independent The”, removals and attempts at kidnapping of children increased by 45% to England and in Wales to reach the figure record of 846 in 2003. The rate of elucidation of these businesses of 50% in 2002 fell to reach 37% in 2003. 20% of solved removals watch a mobile of a sexual nature.

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