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• : Both main candidates to presidency of the United States, George W. Bush and , meets in University of Miami (, ) to make first of three presidential debates in the campaign for presidential elections of the United States ()
• : the amendment on marriages gays it does not pass the House of Representatives of EE.UU., with 227 against 186 votes. (Reuters, in English)
• : at least 41 civilians (among them 34 children) are assassinated by such Iraqian in a multiple attack against a military convoy that crossed . (BBC)
• : at least three civilians are assassinated by error in an air raid in the insurgent city of Faluyah, when being mistaken to him to the supposed house of the militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. (Reuters, in English)
• : an insurgent rocket Iraqian bush to a soldier in a base of support of the aggressor forceses in the outskirts of . (BBC, in English)
• : tanks attacks the field of refugees of Jabaliya killing at least 23 civilians, hurting to 72 (with loss of members) and demolishing hundreds of homes. (BBC, in English) (Reuters, in English)

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• SpaceShipOne, space airplane experimental, it obtains the first one space flight competitive for Prize Ansari X. Although the mission had to be aborted in the beginning, the space airplane reached an altitude of 109,1 km, which considers a space flight.
• Deep space: (4179) Tutatis one approaches 1.55 million of of (only four times the distance that separates it of ). Tutatis is the known greatest asteroid than it has gotten to be so near the Earth. The next approach will take place in the year 2652. (The World) (Space.com, in English)
• : five masks (probably colonos Israeli) attacks with baseball bats and chains to two volunteers of Christian Peacemaker Teams (Christian pacificadores groups) outside the Israeli establishment of Máon in Hebrón when the volunteers escorted until the school to children . (BBC, in English) (To the Jazeera, in English)

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• : they finish Paralímpicos games of Athens 2004. China, and wins most of the gold medals. (Athens2004.com, in English)
• The price of crude in exceeds nearly time the 50 by barrel, the highest price from . The analysts attribute the increase of prices in the possibility of reductions in the production in , conflicts in and Saudi Arabia and the effects of .
• : Giovanni I gave Stefano, the lawyer of the ex- president of Iraq Sadam Husein, it says to the newspaper B.T. that Husain glides to candidatear itself for the elections of January of . One recent survey of Gallup it indicated that 42 % of the Iraqians (of rightist tendency) want that returns its old president. (Zaman, Turkey, in English)
• : health officials report that they have identified a case of a transmission of human to human of the stock H5N1 of bird fever, although says that such transmission only can happen after a contact prolonged between individuals. A virus easier to transmit would cause a world-wide pandemic of fever to the level of Spanish fever of . (Reuters, in English)
• : in two nurses , Simona Pari and Simona Torretta they are released after three weeks of kidnapping, along with two Iraqians who had been captured with them. In a separated fact, four Egyptian workers are released (The Scotsman, in English).
• : military airplanes bombs a building in the insurgent city of Faluya, thinking that one was the base of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Doctors of the place say that at least three civilians were assassinated, although the invading military deny it. (BBC, in English)
• Taiwan: the minister of the outer relations Mark Chen it says that has "the size of a snot" after which the singaporense minister of relations outer George Yeo it declared its opposition from its country to the independence of Taiwan. Later it requested excuses by its improper language. (BBC, in English) (Chinese Post)
• : the editorial of the newspaper of the native town of the president George W. Bush (Crawford, Texas), Lone Star Iconoclast (' iconoclasta of the star solitariá) it pleads against Bush: "they do not choose to a candidate by its native town, but by where it is going to take to our country". In the previous election (of year 2000) the newspaper had supported to Bush. (Reuters) (Lone Star Iconoclast, in English)
• : soldiers declare to have shot to the legs to a civilian deficient mental in the city of Jenin, in Western Shore of . Later television images reveal that it was executed with several shots in the chest. (BBC, in English)
• : airplanes of the aggressor forceses carries out an aerial attack in the suburb of Sadr City, killing 5 civilians at least and hurting to 46, in agreement with a local hospital. The military deny those numbers of casualties civilians. (AP) (BBC, in English)
• : University of announces that an investigator of discovered a lost work of Alexandre Dumás, titled Them voleurs d'or (' the thieves of prayed), in the archives of National library of France. (Herald Sun, in English)

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• Virgin Group it announces that it will create the first commercial company of space flights, call Virgin Galactic, and it will use the technology of SpaceShipOne of Mojave Aerospace Ventures. Virgin hopes to begin to fly to the space in a term of five years.
• University of Montreal he announces that a Quebecker investigator has discovered a lost work of Alexandre Dumas with the title of Them voleurs d'or ("the gold thieves") in the archives of Bibliothèque nationales of France.

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• : they are more than 1.the 000 deads caused by the floods after the passage of Jeanne hurricane. That number could be duplicated given the great number of disappear.
• : Reporters without borders it informs that wikipedia was prohibited in .

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• A student of 14 years, Jokin C. L., throwing itself from the stop of a wall of Hondarribia (, ) after suffering harassment continued on the part of its companions of institute.

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• : 240 dead and great amount of disappeared after floods caused by Jeanne hurricane, that now goes towards .
• : it is celebrated World-wide summit against the hunger, led by the governments of , , and , in which agent chief executives of 113 countries signed a declaration against the hunger and the poverty.

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• : 19 anniversary of the terrible one earthquake that it whipped to and other cities of the country in . The relatives of the victims paid tribute to them.

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• : in the city of Kirkuk a car suicidal pump attacks the headquarters of the national guard and kills 23 soldiers, and a prominent clergyman chií, sheik Kadhim al-Hany, it is placed in ambush and assassinated. (BBC, in English.)

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• : the language tamil the first classic language of this country is declared. Also estatus could be given him that to sánscrito and to others, depending on the literary inheritance that they have bequeathed. (Times of India, in English)
• : three men are arrested in the capital of the country, , to try to sell a manuscript tibetano , that several months back had been reported like robbed in monastery in Kalimpong (Western Bengal). The thieves tried to sell it to 30 million of rupias (535.000 ), although the experts say that in the European international market of contraband of antiques it is worth three times more. (Hindustan Times, in English) (India News via New Kerala, in English)
• : an aerial attack of the aggressor forceses in the city of Faluya (recovered by the Iraqians) it kills to at least 60 people (between whom there were at least 17 children, according to the ministry of health of Iraq. Meanwhile in the center of , a car suicidal pump leaves a balance of 13 dead ones. (The Guardian, in English.)
• : the guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev person in charge by the massacre of the school declares itself of Beslan, saying that it was carried out by a swarm of martyrs of the Riyadus-Salikhin, the group that it leads, in revenge by the death (in the last years) of several hundreds of thousands of chechenos children into the hands of the army . (ABC Au, in English.) (BBC, in English.)
• : judge Rubén Spessot closes the judicial cause by the illegal police attack against the community tufa Nam Qom, located to 10 km of Formosa (capital of the northern province of the same name), happened of , in which high civil employees of the province were implied. All the police cash and civil employees who participated in the violation of human rights they are acquitted. (Indymedia.org)
• : Official inauguration of Paralímpicos games of Athens 2004.

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• : the province of is fourth of this country in legalizing the marriage between people of the same sort. (CBC, in English.)
• : president Hamid Karzai survives an attempt of murder when a missile was mistaken to its helicopter by about 300 ms in Gardez. The helicopter returned to the capital, . (ABC News, in English.)
• United Nations: the Secretary General describes the invasion of Iraq carried out by the government of George W. Bush like an illegal violation of the letter of the United Nations. (BBC, in English.) (Reuters, in English.) (Boston Globe)(ITN, in English.)

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• : six soldiers and four civilians (among them a girl of 11 years of age) are shot by the troops . (Reuters, in English) (BBC)
• : three secret agents (Jonathan Idema, Brent Bennett and Edward Caraballo) is sentenced to 10 years of prison to have illegal a private jail in the capital, , where they stopped and they tortured to Afghan extracting information for its country. (Cnn, in English)
• : Johnny Ramone, guitarist and Co-founder of the mythical band of , passed away in its house in because of against which it fought five years ago. It was 55 years old.

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• : in an attack with car pump, at least 45 people are assassinated and 100 hurt in the center of . (BBC, in English.)
• : the superior cut of Ontario allows to the first divorce of a pair gay (perhaps first in the world) and declares that the portion of the Act of Divorce of Canada that excludes the pairs of the same sort of the effects of this act is inconstitucional. (Globe and Mail, in English.) (Reuters, in English.)

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• : the aggressor forceses mounts an aerial attack in the city of Fallujah (recovered by the Iraqians) to eliminate the military man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - that is connected with Al-Qaeda- but they kill at least 16 civilians (including women and children). (Reuters, in English) (BBC, in English.)
• : the Secretary of State generates frustration in the government of the president George W. Bush when declaring (in an interview in the program of Meet television the Press [ ' enfréntese to medios' ], of ), says that it does not see any connection between the regime of Sadam Husain in and the attacks to the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in EE.UU. 11 of September of . During the Powell interview also it said that he thinks that if the candidate outside president and was a terrorist attack, would respond of "a robust" way. (Washington Post, in English.)
• : 22 insurgents who could be members of and of Al-Qaeda they are executed in the province of Zabul, that is considered a bastion of talibanes. (BBC, in English.)
• : el gobierno cubano evacua a más de un millón de personas de las ciudades de las costas occidentales de la isla, debido a la próxima llegada del huracán Iván (al que los cubanos llaman "Iván el Terrible". (Reuters, en inglés) (New York Times, en inglés.)
• España: el presidente del gobierno español, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, acogió en La Moncloa summit of the governors of Spain, France and Germany. This tripartite summit seals the return of to the French-German nucleus, of which the government was had unmarked of by its support to invasion of Iraq.

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• : and of the aggressor forceses opened fire in civil residential areas in the cities of Ramadi, Such Afar and Hilla (recovered by the Iraqians). At least 110 civilians (men, women and children) and a journalist of the newspaper was assassinated in during a live emission when several helicopters opened fire on the multitude reunited before the fire of a vehicle M2 Bradley. (Reuters, in English.) (BBC)
• : prime minister Vojislav Kostunica it annuls the decision of its minister of education, Liliana Colich, to prohibit the education of theory of the evolution of in the Serbian schools. Colich had declared that the prohibition would continue until in the schools the same value occurred him to the ideas .
• : 40.000 of extreme right protested in against the plans of prime minister to stop the Palestinian earth invasion in and Western Shore of the Jordán river. (Haaretz, in English.)
• : the agency of the Yonhap news, of reports that 8 or 9 of September was an explosion in the norcoreana province of Ryanggang, that generated a cloud with form of fungus of about 4 km of . (Yonhap, in English.) (AP, in English.) (Cnn, in English.)
• : a fire apparently caused destroyed a complex of apartments in the suburbs of Columbus, state of , killing 10 people, all of them and forcing others to jump by the windows from a third floor to escape, said the firemen. (AP)

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• : whips the Caribbean islands with a balance of 56 dead ones. Its arrival to the continent is expected for .
• : it dies of a cardiac attack Fred Ebb (76), who wrote the letter of successful musical comedies of like Chicago and Night club, as well as of the song New York New York.
• Macedonian: it dies Pedro VII, orthodox patriarch of Alexandria next to other fifteen people, among them other three bishops, in an accident of helicopter when he ascended to the monastery of it mounts Athos.
• : 31º anniversary of coup d'etat against the government of , died that same day in the taking of the palace of The Currency. While several thousands of Chileans marched Saturday to evoke the victims of the military coup, its protagonist, , festejó with its supporters its violent taking of the power in private of its address. The government chose to avoid the memory. (Reuters)
• : third anniversary of with suicide airplanes against in and in . The relatives of the 2749 victims read their names in a ceremony in that included bells and several minutes of silence. (AP)
• : in the 61 Festival of Cinema of , the director Mike Leigh it receives several prizes (including prestigious Leon de Oro) by its film Drake Side about a mother jailed worker to make illegal abortions in the England of the Fifties. The star of films, Imelda Staunton, receives the prize to the best actress. (Reuters, in English.)
• : one cuts martial in only sentences the soldier of Latin origin Armin J. Cross to 8 months of prison. It was member of the group of more than twenty officials and soldiers who tortured to Iraqian prisoners in the jail of Abu Ghraib. (BBC News, in English.)
• : the soldier deserter Charles Robert Jenkins reports itself before the authorities in after living 39 years in . (BBC News, in English.)
• : the government sentences to the mercenario and old official of SAS (Servicio Ae'reo Especial) Simon Mann to seven years of prison by his roll in trying a violent coup d'etat against the government . (The Guardian, in English.)
• : a group of that works in Yepún create to have taken the first direct images from a planetary system. The star, call 2M1207, one is to 230 of our Solar System and is much more small and weak that ours . (BBC, in English.)

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• : Frank Thomas, well-known entertainer of the company , passes away to the 92 years. It worked in films like White Snows and the seven enanitos, Pinocho and Bambi. (imdb.com)

9 of September of ,

• : constituted one of the deadliest storms of the last years, with winds of up to 285 kilometers per hour, going towards after devastating Granada. At least thirteen people died and a 90% of the 100.000 was damaged. (AP)
• : a powerful pump explodes near the embassy in , killing to 8 people and hurting more than 160, informed the authorities, that blamed the Islamic group Yemá Islamiya. The group, a network terrorist of the south of related to Al-Qaida, it has been accused by several attacks previous deadly blasters. (AP)
• : the group of rock R.E.M. it presented/displayed in its new record production, titled Around the Sun. The leader of the band, Michael Stipe, took advantage of to disqualify the government of George W. Bush.

8 of September of ,

• : a powerful one left at least thirty dead ones in and around twenty missing ones. (Cnn)
• : space capsule Génesis, that returned to the Earth after collecting atoms lots during three years, crashed in the desert of when their parachute was not opened. Civil employees of could not determine immediately if the very small cosmic samples that the sounding brought would have been unsuitable. (AP)
• : the corporation Seabord Corporation destroys all the accesses to the Hill (of the community guaraní tupí, in sugar bowl The Tabacal, in the selvática zone of , located in the mountainous northwest of the country) hours after a delegation of House of Representatives of the Nation it visited the region and it verified the constant denunciations of violations to human rights. (Indymedia.org)

7 of September of ,

• : leaves at least twelve and innumerable damages in the Southeastern of this country and the islands dead .
• : a fort of 5.5 degrees in Richter scale it left a balance of a dead person. The epicenter was located in the province of Catamarca, in the barren northwest of the country.
• : the government of tries to avoid the investigations of the media, in the first day of the national duel by the children died in of a school in the city of Beslan. (To see Kidnapping of Beslan.)

5 of September of ,

• : earthquake of 7.3 degrees in Richter scale it shook and the west of . The National Meteorological Agency said that of 2 meters of stop could reach some areas of the coast of . At least seven people were wounded. (Reuters)

4 of September of ,

• : entrance of to the coasts of , after to have happened through . He is one of the strongest hurricanes of all history.

3 of September of ,

• Kidnapping of Beslán ():
  • released by presumed rebels has said yesterday that 1500 people follow kidnapped, an amount muy.superior.a the previous estimations. (Reuters, in:)
  • One inquires that special forces controls most of the school. The minister of interior of Osetia of the North it says that "most of the children they are alive". Some of the kidnappers have escaped, others have received firings. (Interfax, in:)
  • Many of the released hostages were dressed only in his underclothes. The information say that they took off the clothes to wet it in water like only hope to follow hydrated during its kidnapping of 2 days. The eyewitnesses affirm that some of the children got to be so dehydrated that they had to drink his own one .
  • Have been at least 150 corpses in gymnasium of the school.
  • The foreign leaders support a and condemns the act .
• China: the Office of Subjects of Taiwan of the Council of State of the People's Republic of China criticizes the suggestion of (president of Taiwan) of which "Taiwan"it is the best way to be brief the name of the Republic of China to promote independence of Taiwan.
• : the ex- ones president Bill Clinton it receives surgery of by-pass in the Presbiteriano Hospital of New York. One complained a slight pain in the chest and lack of breath. (AP, in:) (Cnn, in:)

2 of September of ,

• Kidnapping of Beslán ():
  • Great ones take place two with 10 minutes between the one and other. It is not clear in the beginning which is the origin of the explosions.
  • 32 children and women are released by the kidnappers. (BBC, in:)
• : according to officials in the hospital of the city of Faluya, at least 17 civilians (including 3 children as minimum) were assassinated in an aerial attack on a market. (BBC, in:)
• : near three thousands farmers they take the Quilish hill, by Yanacocha Miner (property of the corporation Newmont). Peruvian faced them a squad of 300 police, being seriously hurt 4 of the 30 wounded farmers (a farmer with destroyed by the impact of a bullet of and another one with an impact of tear pump in the chest). (Indymedia.org)
• : the old leader of the Anwar opposition Ibrahim is released of the jail when the Supreme Court he annuls his positions of . (Bloomberg, in:) (BBC, in:)
• : the court of crimes military of the UN in declares the ex- president Slobodan Milosevic incapable to defend itself in its judgment, and it arranges two defense counsels. (BBC, in:)
• : the government is forced to admit that in the year 2000 their scientists enriched almost until the level of the atomic arms. (BBC, in:)
• : a nocturnal fire destroys the library Duchess Anna Amalia in , , declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO. The library contained more of a million volumes, including the greatest collection of the world of material related to The Faustus (of Goethe), the 13.000 volumes of the personal collection of music of the Duchess, and an important original work collection of . One was saved luterana of . Altogether 50 were destroyed.000 books by a value of several tens of millions of dollars. The soaked books saved by the firemen are being dried in cold in to avoid that they undo. (BBC, in:) (Jerusalem Post, in:)
• : two guards of security of the headquarters of MI5 in is attacked by a man armed with machete. (BBC, in:)
• : George W. Bush it accepts its re-election like candidate to in the republican convention.
• : The group of rock English appeared in the city of after 12 years of not stepping on Mexican earth. It was the first date of a series of concerts in , that included three dates in , the 4, 5 and 6 of September.

1 of September of ,

• : several armed occupies school in Beslán (Osetia of the North), one next a , and thinks that they take like at least to 400 children and adults. Several civilians die in shooting. Some of the kidnappers took explosive belts.
• : it is confirmed that the candidate of , Alu Alkhanov, he is the winner of the presidential elections, with 73.67% of the votes.
• : the number of the military hurt from invasion of Iraq it is of 6.916. The number of the dead military ascends to 975. (MSNBC.com, in:)
• : the seven truck drivers who had been maintained like hostages by Iraqian militants, after six weeks in captivity are released. The three kenyanos, three , and was catched and was threatened of death unless the Gulf Link Transport, a transport company , let work for the army . (FoxNews.com, in:)
• : el gobierno informa a la Agencia Internacional de Energía Atómica que planea convertir 37 toneladas de óxido de uranio (la sal de color amarillo llamada yellowcake o diuranato de amonio, U3O8) en hexafluorido de uranio, lo que se estima suficiente como para 5 bombas nucleares. (Reuters, en:)
• Nepal: la policía impone un toque de queda por tiempo indefinido en Katmandú, capital of the nation, like answer to a series of violent protests that they have had like target to one and a chosen at random in revenge by the murder of 12 civil contractors Nepaleses in . (BBC, in:) (Reuters, in:)
• : ex- prime minister of pays the guarantee of of 2 million of randes (300.000 ) to release to its son, Sir Mark Thatcher, that is under house arrest in to promote a coup d'etat in . (Cnncom, in:)

: the government pardons a 95% of the debt of (, calculated in 315 million of . The president Lula it says: "I think that this could serve as example so that countries of the same magnitude of Brazil have the same gesture with the poor countries of the world, that often have an external debt that knows that is practically non-paymentable, but that it works like a species of sword in the head of the indebted ones".

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