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Global News Archive for November 2004:
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Reports of Scattered Violence as Ukrainians Vote
Supporters for both candidates contended that voting had been marked by ballot stuffing, falsification and efforts to intimidate and disenfranchise voters at the polls...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
Powell Arrives in Israel in Latest Push for Peace
The visit is focused on an American financial aid package that would facilitate Palestinian elections and improve their security forces...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
Iraq Schedules National Elections for Jan. 30
The Electoral Commission of Iraq made the announcement after violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
Girls Aloud seize number one slot
Pop group Girls Aloud's cover version of the Pretenders' I'll Stand By You is the UK's new number one single...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Football: Yorke 'racially abused'
Birmingham boss Steve Bruce claims Dwight Yorke was racially abused at Blackburn...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Apec pushes for free trade boost
Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific states pledge to bolster anti-terrorism measures and efforts to lower trade barriers...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Iraq debt write-off wins approval
Creditor nations agree to a proposal from the US and Germany to slash Iraq's debts to them by 80%...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Woman, 97, mugged for loaf
A 97-year-old woman is seriously ill in hospital after being robbed and thrown to the ground for a loaf of bread...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Powell on fresh Mid-East mission
The US secretary of state visits the Middle East to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Ukraine poll 'won by opposition'
First exit polls from Ukraine's bitterly fought presidential vote point to a win for the pro-Western opposition leader...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Comic leads Celebrity jungle leap
ITV1's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here contestants begin their jungle stint - by skydiving to their base...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Tories tackle 'ordinary issues'
Tory leader Michael Howard promises his party would tackle "things that matter" in its alternative Queen's Speech...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Bahrain activist pardoned by king
Bahrain's King Hamad steps in after a court jails a human rights activist for attacking the government...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Controlled explosions on car
Controlled explosions are carried out on a car after a police officer is injured in a road collision in County Down...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
New safeguards on sex offenders
Sex offenders are to spend longer in jail under measures to be announced by the Scottish Executive...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Golf: English clinch World Cup
English duo Paul Casey and Luke Donald hit back to clinch the World Cup by one shot in Seville...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Swapo man wins Namibia landslide
The candidate of Namibia's ruling Swapo, Hifikepunye Pohamba, is elected president after a landslide victory...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
France scorns beheading claim
France derides claims by Ivory Coast's president and a top Catholic cleric that French troops beheaded protesters...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Brisk voting in key Ukraine poll
Ukraine's marathon presidential election reaches its climax amid bitter rivalry and dirty tricks claims...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
School X-ray checks 'possibility'
Airport-style machines would be used in schools if it was the only way to tackle knife-carrying, says the education secretary...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
'End Brown rift' Mandelson urges
EU Commissioner Peter Mandelson urges Gordon Brown's supporters to "draw a line" under a rift between the two men...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Iraqis push ahead with elections
Iraq sets a date of 30 January for elections, despite continuing violence that threatens to disrupt the poll...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Sinn Fein leader 'regrets' bombs
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams says he "regrets" the Birmingham pub bombings on the 30th anniversary of the attacks...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Tougher anti-terror laws proposed
Home Secretary David Blunkett outlines proposals for tough new measures to combat terrorism...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Lib Dems vow 'significant gains'
The Lib Dems will make gains from other parties at the next general election, their campaign manager says...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Two teenagers die in crash
Two teenagers are killed, and another is critically injured, in an accident between two vehicles on a minor road in west Wales...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Woman dies in blaze
A woman dies in a fire at her home in Bangor in County Down which police do not believe is malicious...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Ice and rain cause road problems
Police warn drivers to take extra care as black ice and heavy rain present problems across Scotland...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
India starts 'final' anti-polio push
A nationwide polio vaccination campaign begins in India as part of the global UN drive to eradicate the virus...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Man killed during charity event
An inquiry is launched after a Warwickshire man died at a Children in Need event...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Strong quake shakes summit city
An earthquake strikes Costa Rica during an Ibero-American summit killing at least four people...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
England could have walked - Fifa
Fifa boss Sepp Blatter says he would have backed England's players if they had walked off against Spain...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
New law to protect animal testers
The government is expected to announce new legislation this week to protect people who work in animal research...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
N Korea 'must end nuclear dream'
President Bush urges North Korea to give up nuclear ambitions at a summit rocked by protests...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Voting starts in key Ukraine poll
Ukraine holds a presidential election that could decide if the country aligns with Russia or the West...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
China plane plunges into icy lake
A plane crashes into a frozen lake in northern China, killing 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
A 'Good-Cop, Bad-Cop' Approach on Iran
It took the bluntest-talking member of the Bush administration, Richard Armitage, to explain the strategy of increasing the heat on Iran's nuclear program...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
Bush Says Iran Speeds Output of A-Bomb Fuel
In meetings with Asian leaders, President Bush also attempted to establish a unified front against North Korea...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
In Falluja, Young Marines Saw the Savagery of an Urban War
A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that the U.S. has encountered since Vietnam...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
Mongolia Under Pressure to Serve as Haven for Refugees
North Korea's new diplomatic presence is seen as an attempt to block efforts to make Mongolia a processing center for defectors...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
France Is Cast as the Villain in Ivory Coast
Many Ivoirians have turned on French businessmen, immigrant workers and one another with a vengeance...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
Some Hard-Liners in Turkey See Diversity as Divisive
Under pressure from the European Union and civil rights advocates, Turkey has started to reassess the way it has treated religious minorities...
New York Times - November 21, 2004
Antipsychotics treat brain virus
A type of drug used to treat schizophrenia can protect brain cells from a virus that causes a fatal nervous system disorder, say experts...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Blairs defend private flat rental
Downing Street defends Tony and Cherie Blair against newspaper claims about the two flats they let in Bristol...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
No extra cash to police hunt ban
Home Secretary David Blunkett will not give police extra funds to "sensitively" police the hunting ban...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Cricket: Australia romp to victory
Australia win the first Test against New Zealand by an innings and 156 runs...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
UN starts Great Lakes peace tour
The UN Security Council begins a tour of the Great Lakes region in Africa to support peace efforts there...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Passenger plane crashes in China
A passenger plane with more that 50 people aboard crashes in northern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
US son-in-law for ex-coup leader
A US lawmaker marries the daughter of Guatemala's ex-military ruler at a closely-guarded ceremony...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Deal nears on Iraq debt write-off
More than a quarter of Iraq's foreign debt burden could be forgiven under a US-German proposal...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Anti-terror laws 'may go further'
David Blunkett says measures to beat terrorism could include special anti-terror courts using phone-taping evidence...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Prince denies he is out of step
The Prince of Wales will use a speech to refute claims he believes people should
not try to rise above their station...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Big setback for US spy shake-up
Sweeping plans to reform the US spy network run into trouble after key Republicans in Congress object to the bill...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Service marks IRA pub bombings
A memorial service is held in Birmingham to remember the victims of the IRA pub bombings 30 years ago...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
Doctors' therapy 'slows ageing'
Two British doctors believe infra-red light therapy could provide a cure for wrinkles...
BBC News - November 21, 2004
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