Events in July 2005
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Jul. 1
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The Russian and Chinese Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao, sign a ‘Declaration on World Order in the 21st Century’ for building a multi-polar world, at the Kremlin. |
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South Korean prosecutors bring charges of fraud against former Daewoo group chairman Kim Woo-choong. |
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Seventeen Afghan civilians are killed in U.S. air strike on a suspected militant hideout in Chichal village in Kunar province. |
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Jul. 3
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Albanians cast ballots in legislative polls. |
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Mauritian voters cast votes in parliamentary elections. |
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Saudi Arabia’s most wanted man — suspected Al-Qaeda frontman — Yunis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari is killed in a shootout in Riyadh. |
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India releases $250 million credit to seven African nations on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Sirte, Libya. |
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Jul. 4
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Deep Impact, a NASA probe smashes into Tempel 1, a comet on a mission to learn about the origin of solar system. |
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Jul. 5
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Navin Ramgoolam is named Mauritian Prime Minister after his Labour Party’s victory in polls. |
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Sven Jaschan (19) ‘creator of the Sasser worm which wreaked havoc in big businesses worldwide last year, confesses to all the charges against him in a German court. |
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Jul. 6
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The three-day G-8 summit opens in the Gleneagles estate near Edinburgh in Scotland marked by anti-globalisation protests. |
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Jul. 7
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A series of seven blasts triggered by suicide bombers rips through London leaving 50 persons dead and over 700 injured. Three subway trains and a double decker tourist bus bear the brunt in the attack — the worst in the city since World War II. |
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The Group of Eight leaders condemn blasts and resolve to confront and defeat terrorism. |
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At least 200 persons are killed after a ferry sinks in the Arafura Sea in Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua. |
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Aleksandar Karadzic, son of top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive, Radovan Karadzic is arrested in Pale. |
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Jul. 8
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“Terrorism is cowardice aimed at the innocent people. It is fed on hatred and cynicism,” says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at Oxford University. |
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The Prime Minister acknowledges “beneficial consequences” of the Raj, after receiving an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the Oxford University. |
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The G-8 nations agree upon a $ 50 billion aid package for Africa and a $3 billion offer for Palestine at the end of the three-day summit. "We speak today in the shadow of terrorism but it will not obscure what we came here to achieve," says the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. |
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Jul. 9
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Former rebel leader, John Garang takes oath as the new First Vice-President of Sudan in the capital Khartoum. |
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Four Afghan policemen are killed in a Taliban attack on their convoy and six others are found beheaded after being snatched in an area south of Kabul. |
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Jul. 10
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Kyrgyzstan’s acting President, Kurman Bakiyev sweeps snap polls. |
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Twentyfive persons are killed in suicide bombings in Iraq. |
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Jul. 11
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Fortyone miners are killed in a gas blast in China’s Xinjiang Ugyur Autonomous Region. |
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The Japanese House of Representatives, passes a bill on the privatisation of postal services after an 110 hour debate. |
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The G-4 countries — India, Japan, Germany and Brazil — introduce a draft resolution for expansion of the U.N. Security Council, in the General Assembly in New York. |
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Jul. 12
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Prince Albert II ascends the throne of Monaco, the Mediterraneam statelet. |
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Seventy six persons, 26 among whom are kids, die following brutal attacks in Turbi village, Kenya involving the Borana and Gabra clans. |
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Jul. 13
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London “suicide bombers” of Pakistan origin born and brought up in Britain, says the police. Four had blown themselves up and hunt is on for the fifth suspect. |
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At least 128 persons are killed and hundreds injured as three trains crash near Ghotki northeast of Karachi, Pakistan. |
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America’s Discovery shuttle launch is put off following detection of defective fuel sensors. |
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Bernard Ebbers, the former CEO of World Com, is jailed for 25 years for his role in the $ 11 billion fraud that drove the firm to bankruptcy, by the Manhattan Federal Court. |
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Thirtytwo persons, many among them children, are killed as a suicide bomber strikes in Al-Jedidah district in Southeastern Baghdad. |
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Jul. 14
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Elnashar, an Egyptian chemical engineer, is detained in Cairo in connection with the London bombings. |
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Study reveals that the December 26 quake has left a 1,000km gash in the Indian Ocean’s floor and displaced Earth’s crust as for as southern China. |
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Jul. 15
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Nepal’s King Gyanendra expands Cabinet. |
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court suspends deal on tsunami aid disbursal between Colombo and the LTTE. |
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Jul. 16
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British police identify the suspects in the 7/7 London attacks as Hasib Hussain, Germaine Lindsay, Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer. |
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More than 90 people are killed as a suicide bomber blows himself up near a Shia mosque near Baghdad triggering an explosion in a fuel tanker. |
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The sixth book by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, hits the stands worldwide. |
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Fiftyfive persons are killed as a plane crashes shortly after takeoff in Equatorial Guinea. |
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Indonesian Government and the Aceh rebels sign a peace deal to end a 29-year-old militancy in the province. |
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Jul. 17
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Twentyfour persons are killed as suicide bombers strike at security patrols and polling workers in Baghdad. |
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Jul. 18
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The U.S. agrees to cooperate with India in civilian nuclear energy after talks between President, George W. Bush and the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at the White House. The International Atomic Energy Agency is allowed to monitor the ‘non-military’ side of New Delhi’s nuclear energy programme. ‘A U.S.-India Global Democracy Initiative is also agreed upon’. |
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Jul. 19
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“India and the United States have both suffered grievously, from terrorism and we must make common cause against it,” says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at the special joint meeting of the Congress. |
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Washington will work to lift curbs on nuclear supplies, says President Bush. |
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Jul. 20
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The Constitutional court of Portugal rejects underworld don Abu Salem’s plea against extradition to India to stand trial in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast cases. |
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Jul. 21
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Four explosions — three on underground trains and one on a double decker bus — rock London city. |
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China devalues the yuan for the first time in a decade and also scraps the peg to the dollar in favour of a basket of currencies. |
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Jul. 22
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British police kill a Brazilian youth Jean Charles de Menezes as he tries to board a train at the Stockwell Underground station near Oval mistaking him to be a terrorist. |
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Former Myanmar Prime Minister, Khin Nyunt, receives a 44-year suspended sentence after being convicted on eight charges, including bribery and corruption. His sons, Zan Naing Oo and Ye Naing Win get 68 years and 51 years jail term. |
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Jul. 23
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At least 67 persons are killed in a string of three bomb attacks on the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. |
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At least 25 persons are killed as a suicide bomber in a truck blows himself up outside a Baghdad police station. |
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Lance Armstrong of Texas wins the le Tour de France in Paris, an unprecedented seventh time in a row. |
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Jul. 26
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Space shuttle Discovery blasts off with seven astronauts led by Eileen Collins from the Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida on America’s first manned space mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster. |
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A Dutch court sentences to life Mohammed Bouyeri, the killer of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. |
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The six-party talks on the North Korean N-programme begins in Beijing after 13 months. |
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Three cloned African wild cats living in the U.S. give birth to kittens in yet another breakthrough in bioengineering. |
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Jul. 27
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A militant is held in Lahore, Pakistan for his role in the 2002 murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl. |
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Jul. 28
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The Irish Republican Army ends 30 years of armed struggle in a seismic shift in strategy. |
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The Discovery shuttle docks with the International Space Station. |
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Twentyfive persons are killed after a suicide bomber blows himself up in the northern Iraqi town of Rabia. |
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Jul. 29
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Mike Brown, a U.S. astronomer announces the discovery of a “tenth planet in the solar system”. Named 2003 — UB313, it is one-and-a-half times the size of Pluto. |
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Four suspects in the July 21 abortive bomb attacks in London are arrested. |
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Jul. 30
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The Sudanese Vice-President, John Garang dies in a helicopter crash. |
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