Events in December 2003
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Dec. 1
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The Lisbon High Court grants extradition to India of Monica Bedi, an associate of Abu Salem, prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. |
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Dec. 5
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Queen Elizabeth II of Britain at the CHOGM begins the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Nigerian capital Abuja. |
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Forty persons die in a suicide attack on a train in South Russia, near Chechnya |
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Dec. 6
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Rosanna Davison (19) of Ireland is declared Miss World 2003 after a beauty pageant in the southern Chinese resort city of Sanya, on Hainan island. |
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Dec. 7
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Commonwealth extends indefinitely suspension of Zimbabwe. |
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The Russian President, Vladimir Putin's United Russia, sweeps the parliamentary polls. |
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Dec. 8
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Zimbabwe pulls out of the Commonwealth. |
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Dec. 10
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Iran's Shirin Ebadi is presented with the Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo. |
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A special tribunal on crimes by the Saddam regime in Iraq is set up. |
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Dec. 11
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Air India's first-ever commercial flight to China, arrives in Shanghai. |
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Dec. 12
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Jean Chretien steps down as Canadian Premier and Paul Martin takes over. |
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Dec. 13
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U.S. troops capture the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein from his hideout near his hometown of Tikrit. |
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Dec. 14
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The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf escapes bid on life as a bomb goes off minutes after his convoy passes a bridge in Rawalpindi. |
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Dec. 15
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The Royal Bhutan Army cracks down on anti-India militant outfits ULFA, NDFB, and KLO, which had set up and operated from a string of camps on its soil for the last 12 years. |
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Dec. 16
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Bhutan's Royal Army seizes ULFA central command HQ in Phukatong in Samdrup Jongkhar district bordering Assam. |
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Dec. 17
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The First Flight Centennial celebration of the Wright Brothers' historic flight in North Carolina, U. S. ends in an anti-climax as an attempt to recreate the moment fails. |
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Dec. 18
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"We have `left aside' U. N. resolutions on Kashmir, says the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf. |
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Pop star Michael Jackson is formally charged with molesting a cancer-stricken boy in his Neverland ranch. |
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Dec. 19
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The British-built Beagle 2 surface probe, on a course for Mars is successfully launched under the aegis of the European Space Agency. |
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Libya decides to give up weapons of mass destruction and to accept international inspections. |
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Dec. 20
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A chopper carrying Britons, Jennifer Murray (63) and Colin Bodill (52) crashlands in the Antarctica during a round-the-world attempt via the North and South Poles. |
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Dec. 25
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At least 191 people are killed in a devastating blow-out at a natural gas field in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. |
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The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, escapes another bid on his life, when suicide bombers ram two cars into his motorcade killing 14 persons in the Rawalpindi cantonment area. |
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Dec. 26
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A major quake destroys the Iranian fort city of Bam. Initial reports said that over 5,000 people had been killed, though the toll has been estimated at well over 40,000. |
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Dec. 27
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Global effort launched to rescue survivors of the quake that destroyed the Iranian town of Bam. |
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Dec. 29
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Reformers suffer setback in Serbian polls as ultra-nationalists gain the upper hand. |
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The British Government decides to deploy armed guards on flights to America, on grounds of an increased threat of airborne terrorist attacks. |
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Dec. 31
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Foreign Secretaries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) meet ahead of the Jan. 4-6 summit in Islamabad. |
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