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- NAACP sends out warnings about a forged letter that threatens the arrest of voters
who have outstanding parking tickets or have failed to pay child support. (The State) (http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/breaking_news/10050609.htm)
- Vaughn Meader, whose The First Family comedy-album spoof of
John F. Kennedy was the fastest-selling American album of all time
and won the 1963 Grammy Award for best album of the year,
dies in Auburn, Maine. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/29/obit.meader.ap/)
- Fighting broke out for the second time in a month in Somalia between the declared
independent Republic of Somaliland and the autonomous Puntland. So far, fighting in the disputed region has left over a hundred dead.(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3965861.stm)
- In Rome, heads of state and government from the countries of the European Union sign the treaty establishing a
constitution for Europe. The treaty is still subject to ratification by the member nations. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3963701.stm)
- Norodom Sihamoni is crowned King of Cambodia. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3963945.stm)
- Yasser Arafat is flown to Paris, France for medical treatment at Percy military hospital which
specializes in blood disorders and cancer. Ahmed Qurei will manage the daily
affairs of the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestine Liberation Organization. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6655937)
- Two bombings occur in southern Thailand, in the wake of clashes between
minority Muslim protesters and Thai soldiers in which about 80 protesters were
suffocated while being transported to detention camps. (see 26
October current events.) (INQ7.net) (http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=16454)
- A Johns Hopkins University study, published in
the British medical journal the Lancet, estimates that an additional 100,000 civilian deaths have
occurred since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. However, the
study has a significant margin of error — the actual figure predicted by the study is anywhere from 8,000 to 194,000 excess
deaths. (The
Lancet) (http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9445/full/llan.364.9445.early_online_publication.31137.1)
(Lancet report [pdf]) (http://image.thelancet.com/extras/04art10342web.pdf) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3962969.stm) (Slate) (http://slate.msn.com/id/2108887/)
- The New York Times reports the existence of a videotape made
by a KSTP St. Paul,
Minnesota television crew embedded with U.S. 101st
Airborne Division troops on April 18, 2003, nine days after Hussein's fall. The videotape shows the sealed explosives containers at Al Qaqaa, clearly displaying the ammunition cache of explosives and other weapons supplies, sealed with the
IAEA seals which were reported by the IAEA 18 months ago. (NY Times) (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/politics/29bomb.html)
- Arab television network Al Jazeera broadcasts a new video tape of Osama bin Laden, addressing citizens of the United
States, acknowledging his responsibility for the September
11, 2001 attacks, threatening further action against the U.S., and criticizing U.S. President George W. Bush. He said that the security of the American people depended neither on Mr. Bush nor on
John Kerry, but on US policy. (Reuters) (http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6664227) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3966741.stm)
- Belgium : Strike of the buses, metros and tramways of the Brussels public transport company STIB/MIVB. Buses of
De lijn however worked.
(Expatica.com) (http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=13323&name=STIB+strike+over+passenger+violence)
(Xinhua) (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/22/content_2126422.htm)
- In Latvia, Indulis Emsis,
the first Green Party prime minister steps down when the country's minority coalition government dissolves after the parliament
rejects its 2005 budget. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/28/latvia.coalition.reut/index.html)
- An article in the Washington Times, citing U.S. Defense Department official John A. Shaw, alleges that Russian special forces moved weapons, explosives, and related materials out of Iraq and into Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iran, shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Russia denies the allegation, calling the claims "absurd". U.S. officials later say they cannot
corroborate the claim, but are investigating. (Washington Times) (http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041028-122637-6257r.htm) (VOA) (http://www.voanews.com/english/2004-10-28-voa49.cfm) (Interfax) (http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10715486)
- A Los Angeles-based company, Allerca, announced that within three years it will be able to produce a hypoallergenic cat using genetic modification. At the same time, the company denied that it will be able to do the same for
dogs, because whereas cats have a single gene that
produces the allergenic protein, dogs
have many allergenic proteins controlled by multiple genes. (San Jose Mercury News) (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/10035419.htm?1c) (New Scientist) (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996594)
- U.S. presidential election:
- A methane gas explosion in Russia's
Listvyazhnaya mine, which is located in Siberia near the border with
Mongolia, kills 13 people and injures 23. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=610775§ion=news)
- A total lunar eclipse, visible in western Europe, western Africa, and most of North and South America, takes place. It lasts
for 3 hours, 40 minutes (1:15 to 4:54 UTC); the
next total lunar eclipse will not occur until March 2007. (NASA) (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2004Oct28/TLE2004Oct28.html) (Seattle Times) (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002075277_weblunareclipse28.html)
- The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series title since 1918 — and break the "Curse of the Bambino" — by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3–0 in the fourth game of the 2004 World Series of baseball.
- The United States Air Force commissions its first F/A-22 Raptor jet, the world's most expensive
fighter aircraft. The Air Force has ordered 277 of the planes.
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3959673.stm)
- Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's health declines sharply, and a team of doctors is called in to treat him. Doctors performed a minor diagnostic procedure on Arafat on Monday, after he complained of stomach pains. (Reuters)
(http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XD2JYRNGE52SSCRBAEZSFFA?type=worldNews&storyID=6634268)
(Haaretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/494337.html)
- Scientists announce the discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores of the skeleton of a previously unknown species of extinct human, named Homo floresiensis. Unusually, the
creature, while quite different from modern humans — as an adult, it stood only 3
feet (90 cm) tall — dates from only 18,000 years ago, disproving the accepted theory that modern humans became the
sole human species 160,000 years ago. (AP)
(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&e=1&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_sc/dwarf_cavewoman)
- Four British citizens, who were detained at the U.S. military installation in Guantanamo Bay for almost three years, sue the U.S. government for £5.5 million ($10 million) each,
alleging torture and other human
rights violations. The principal defendants are Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld and Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/3959635.stm)
- Three Russian policemen are charged with
negligence over the Beslan school hostage
crisis; more than 350 people, about half of whom were children, died in that event. (Reuters) (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6626150§ion=news)
- Three militants with alleged links to al-Qaeda are killed by Pakistani forces near the border with
Afghanistan. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6625878)
- Amnesty International declares the Bush administration to be "guilty of setting conditions for torture and cruel treatment by lowering safeguards and failing to respond adequately to
allegations of abuse", amid other criticisms of the "war on terror",
which the report says is "violating basic rights in the name of national security" and urged the President and challenger John Kerry to support an independent inquiry into detention and interrogation policies.
(Reuters) (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6627935&pageNumber=0)
- Slobodan Milošević trial: Slobodan Milošević's defense team asks for a withdrawal,
saying Milošević refuses to cooperate. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=610357§ion=news)
- U.S. presidential election:
The BBC reports that it has obtained a document from George W. Bush's Florida campaign headquarters containing a list
of 1,886 names and addresses of voters in largely African-American and Democratic areas of Jacksonville,
Florida. Democratic Party officials allege that the document is a "caging
list" that the Bush campaign intends to use to issue mass challenges to African-American voters, in violation of federal law. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm)
- A vote by the European Parliament over the approval of
the new European Commission has been delayed, after incoming
president José Manuel Durão Barroso asks for
more time to reshuffle his team. (EUobserver) (http://www.euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=17641) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3957625.stm)
- The Cassini-Huygens space probe makes its first close flyby of
Titan, resulting in images up to 100 times better than anything seen
before.
(Astrobio) (http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1266&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0)
- The co-pilot of American Airlines Flight
587 caused the November, 2001, crash in
New York City that claimed the lives of 265 people, the staff of the U.S.
National Transportation Safety
Board said. (Globe and
Mail) (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041026.wcrash1026/BNStory/International)
- A report by the media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranks press freedom across the world. The ten lowest scoring countries (least free) in the report were
North Korea, Cuba, Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Eritrea, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, while the ten highest were Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Latvia. (BBC
News) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3956283.stm) (RSF
report) (http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The
Knesset approves Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's plan to withdraw 21 settlements from the Gaza Strip and 4 from the West Bank by next year. Israeli
Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and three other cabinet ministers from Sharon's ruling Likud government threaten to resign if a referendum over the plan
will not be held. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6618004) (Guardian) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1336610,00.html)
- A food fight breaks out during a lunchtime conference in the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan.
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3954847.stm) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=6616617) (USA Today) (http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-10-26-food-fight_x.htm)
- The People's Republic of China shuts down
dozens of illegal or unsanitary blood collection stations as part of its efforts to curb the spread of AIDS in the
country. (VOA) (http://www.voanews.com/english/2004-10-26-voa32.cfm)
- Conflict in Iraq:
- Iraq's appointed Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi tells the interim national council that yesterday's
killing of 49 unarmed army recruits "was the outcome of major neglect by some parts of the multinational (forces)." (Reuters) (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6617482§ion=news)
- The U.S. military reports a known associate
of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in an early morning
air strike on a safe house in Fallujah. Local residents say that the houses destroyed were empty for over a month and hospital staff report no
casualties. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.main/index.html) (Reuters) (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6609619§ion=news)
- 78 people died of suffocation while in the custody of Thailand police following the dispersal of a violent demonstration on October 25 in the
restive Muslim-majority southern region of the country. The deaths appeared to have
occurred during a five hour trip in closed trucks to a detention facility. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6614946)(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3954587.stm)
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