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| | | US and UK forces launch military action against Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Describing September 11 as an act of war, President Bush retaliates with a 'War on Terrorism' | |
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| 2001 |
| | | US President George W. Bush revives bitter memories in the Middle East when he describes the war on terrorism as a 'crusade' | |
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| 2001 |
| | | The Northern Alliance, the army of the Afghan resistance to the Taliban, drives the Taliban from Kabul | |
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| 2001 |
| | | The giant Texas energy company Enron files for bankruptcy after disclosure of major accountancy fraud | |
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| 2001 |
| | | A month after the fall of Kabul, the Northern Alliance drives the Taliban from their power base in Kandahar | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Five presidents succeed each other within a month in Argentina's economic crisis | |
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| 2001 |
| | | UK terrorist Richard Reid tries to bring down a Paris-Miami flight but fails to light the exposive in his shoe | |
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| 2002 |
| | | The trial of Slobodan Milosevic begins at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague | |
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| 2002 |
| | | The death of Jonas Savimbi is soon followed by the disbanding of UNITA and the end of 27 years of Angolan civil war | |
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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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| 2002 |
| | | In spite of a massive military operation, the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden escapes US pursuit in Afghanistan | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Afghan aristocrat and politician Hamid Karzai heads an interim government in his country | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The historic city of Bam, in Iran, is destroyed in a massive earthquake, with more than 40,000 deaths | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The US space shuttle Columbia disintegrates, with seven on board, when re-entering the earth's atmosphere | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Around the world millions of people march in protest against the war planned by the USA and UK against Iraq | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The two remaining regions of the unravelled Yugoslavia unite as a new nation, Serbia and Montenegro | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in the Darfur region of the Sudan, resulting in large numbers of civilian deaths and accusations of government-sponsored genocide | |
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| 2003 |
| | | A deadly new form of pneumonia, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is first reported in Hanoi and soon spreads globally | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Zoran Dindić, the prime minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Hu Jintao succeeds Jiang Zemin as president of the People's Republic of China | |
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| 2003 |
| | | US, British, Australian and Polish forces invade Iraq | |
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| 2003 |
| | | US forces are in control of Baghdad and an excited crowd topples from its plinth a massive statue of Saddam Hussein | |
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| 2003 |
| | | President Bush prematurely celebrates his Iraq achievement with a speech on a US aircraft carrier in front of a banner declaring 'Mission Accomplished' | |
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| 2003 |
| | | UK scientist David Kelly commits suicide, apparently for reasons linked with the Iraq War | |
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| 2003 |
| | | US tennis player Pete Sampras retires with a record total of 14 Grand Slam titles | |
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