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April 18, 2005

Daily newsbrief journal for April 2005, also see http://www.usdemocrats.com/brief for a global 100-page perpetual brief and follow twitter @usdemocrats


April 18, 2005

Postby admin » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:31 pm

April 18, 2005
The largest moving object on Earth, the iceberg B15A in Antarctica has collided with the Drygalski ice tongue, a feature large enough to be included in Antarctic maps. During the collision, a five-kilometre-long section of the ice tongue was broken off. (ESA) (AP)Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory announce that they have created a newly discovered state of matter by smashing atoms in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. This new state of matter behaves like a hot and dense liquid made up of basic atomic particles such as quarks and gluons. Researchers claim that all matter in the universe for a fraction of a second after the Big Bang was in the form of this liquid. (MSNBC), (BNL News)Catherine Ndereba of Kenya and Hailu Negussie of Ethiopia win in the 109th Boston Marathon. Negussie was successful in finally breaking the Kenyan-dominated men's race. Defending champion Ndereba became the first four-time woman's winner. (ABCnews) (CNN) (Boston.com)Black smoke signals no new Pope is chosen in the first ballot in the Papal conclave, 2005. (BBC), (ABC), (Yahoo! News/AP)Two Israelis, one a soldier in the Combat Engineering Corps, and one a civilian, are wounded by a Palestinian sniper in an attack on Philadelphi Route of the southern Gaza Strip, close to the Egyptian border. The Popular Resistance Committees claims responsibility. (Haaretz)Adobe Systems buys Macromedia for $3.4 billion. (Yahoo! Financial), (New York Times), (USA Today), (MSNBC).The death toll in the collapse of a garment factory in Dacca, Bangladesh reaches 74. Dozens are still missing. (Reuters AlertNet)2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations: Sino-Japanese relations worsen after a meeting between Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, and Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura in Beijing. China continues to refuse an apology for the increasing number of anti-Japanese protests, and further accuses Japan for handling the issues of history and Taiwan "incorrectly". (Radio Australia)The Ecuador congress votes to dismiss supreme court judges. A debate for the selection of the new ones is set for Tuesday. President Lucio Gutiérrez lifts a day-old state of emergency, but thousands of protesters still demand his resignation. (Reuters) (BBC)The government of the Philippines begins talks with Moro Islamic Liberation Front. (Manila Times) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi refuses to resign and intends to continue with minority government. (AGI) (Reuters) (Bloomberg)Bosnian Serb officer Vujadin Popovic, accused of complicity in Srebrenica massacre in 1995, pleads not guilty in the Hague. He surrendered to the ICTY on April 14. (FENA) (Reuters) (BBC)The governments of India and Pakistan declare that peace between them is "irreversible". United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan welcomes the move. (Hindu) (Deepika) (IHT) (Daily Times)Mexican government rules out pardoning Andrés Manuel López Obrador. His supporters continue their protests. (Reuters)The Pakistani government releases 500 members of Pakistan Peoples Party it detained prior to return of opposition leader Asif Zardari. Zardari hopes to have dialogue with the government. (Pakistan Times) (Daily Times) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)Former Lebanese minister Bassel Fleihan dies of wounds he received in the bombing that killed Rafik Hariri. (Daily Star) (Reuters AlertNet) (CNN)Spain returns Rabei Osman Ahmed, who had been extradited as a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings, to Italian custody. (Reuters Alertnet) (World Peace Herald) (BBC)The Rwandan supreme court hears appeals for Pasteur Bizimungu, first president of Rwanda after the genocide, who was arrested last June. (Rwanda Information Exchange) (IOL) (BBC)Four people are charged with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi. Suspects have Mafia ties. (Financial Times) (Reuters) (BBC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2005
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