Events in July 2003
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Jul. 11
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Lahore-bound Indian bus crosses over into Pakistan at the Wagah border reopening direct passenger transportation links. (pix.) |
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Sri Lanka Government to grant citizenship to 1,68,141 people of Indian origin who had opted but failed to return to their native country. |
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Astronomers said the oldest and most distant planet yet found is a huge, gaseous sphere 13 billion years old and 5,600 light years away, a discovery that could change theories about when planets formed and when life could have evolved. (pix.) |
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Jul. 12
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Death sentences handed down to 10 alleged members of a radical Islamic group suspected of involvement in May 16 suicide attacks that killed 44 people in Casablanca, Morocco. (pix.) |
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Jul. 13
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Kuwait's Emir appoints Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah as Prime Minister, separating the post from the Crown Prince. (pix.) |
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Jul. 14
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Iraq's new Governing Council put off selecting a president but votes to send a delegation to U.N. Security Council. |
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A powerful bomb explodes at the Indonesian Parliament complex in Jakarta. |
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Jul. 16
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Pro-American Mayor of Hadithah shot dead in escalating violence in Iraq. |
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Jul. 17
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Novelist Vikram Seth is reported to have been paid an advance of £ 1.3 million by Time Warner Books for his next book, Two Lives. |
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Audiotape purportedly to be of Saddam Hussein played over Arabic television calling for jihad. |
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Jul. 18
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Pakistan Government bans chief of the Pakistan Chapter of JKLF, Amanullah Khan, from travelling abroad and cancels his passport. |
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David Kelly, a former British UN weapons' inspector in Iraq feared dead under mysterious circumstances. |
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Jul. 20
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U.S.-led forces kill 24 persons who attacked a coalition convoy in south-western Afghanistan. |
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Jul. 21
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Jeffrey Archer, writer of pulp fiction and former deputy chairman of Conservative Party, released from jail after serving two years of a four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice. |
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Jul. 22
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Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusai killed in a firefight when U.S. forces stormed a palatial villa in Mosul. |
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Jul. 25
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Arunachal Pradesh not part of India, says China. |
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Pak. hostage drama ends, three judges killed in Sialkot. |
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Jul. 26
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Japan authorises deployment of the `Self-Defence Forces' (SDF) in Iraq on a humanitarian mission. |
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Jul. 30
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Chief Election Commissioner, J.M. Lyngdoh, and social worker, Shantha Sinha, are among seven persons to be honoured this year with the Ramon Magsaysay Award. (pix.) |
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Iraq's Interim Government names Ibrahim al-Jaafari to serve as its first President |
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Sierra Leone's rebel leader, Foday Sankoh passes away. (pix.) |
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