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| 2002 |
| | | In Zimbabwe's presidential election, again characterized by violence and apparent vote-rigging, Mugabe defeats Tsvangirai | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, widow of the British king George VI, dies at the age of 102 | |
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| 2002 |
| | | The US-led invasion of Afghanistan sweeps the Taliban from power, ending their protection of al-Qaeda | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Fifty years after her accession to the throne, the British queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Golden Jubilee | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated outside a a radio station in Hilversum | |
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| 2002 |
| | | The African Union (AU) is established as a successor to the African Economic Community and the Organization of African Unity | |
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| 2002 |
| | | New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark wins a second term with a landslide victory | |
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| 2002 |
| | | The US holds suspected al-Qaeda terrorists indefinitely, and without legal rights, in Guantanamo Bay, an American enclave in Cuba | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Terrorists detonate bombs in two crowded nightclubs in the Bali resort of Kuta, killing 202 people | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Chechen terrorists take hostage the entire audience of a Moscow theatre in an atrocity resulting in the death of more than 150 people | |
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