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| 2003 |
| | | Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the following day | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Californians vote to remove governor Gray Davis from office in a 'recall' election and to replace him with Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The last three Concorde airliners to carry fare-paying passengers land within a space of five minutes at Heathrow | |
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| 2003 |
| | | US singer Britney Spears creates a new record when she has a fourth successive album (In the Zone) go straight to the top of Billboard 200 | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The 'Rose Revolution' in Georgia forces the resignation of president Eduard Shevardnadze after rigged elections | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Ian Paisley's hard-line Democratic Unionist Party wins in elections to the suspended Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is found hiding in a subterranean hole in a farmyard near Tikrit | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Mikheil Saakashvili, the real winner of Georgia's November 2003 presidential election, has a resounding victory in the replay | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Lord Hutton publishes his report into the circumstances leading up to the suicide of Dr David Kelly | |
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| 2004 |
| | | For the second time president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is forced to flee from Haiti, after losing control to opposition rebels | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Bombs explode simultaneously on several commuter trains in Madrid during the morning rush hour, killing 190 people | |
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| 2004 |
| | | In Russia's presidential election Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term | |
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| 2004 |
| | | The Annan UN plan for the reunification of Cyprus is approved by the Turkish community but rejected by the Greeks | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Abuses in the US military prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq are revealed on US television | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Ten new member states (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungrary, Malta, Cyprus) join the European Union | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Michael Schumacher becomes the first driver to win seven world championship titles in Formula One | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Chechen terrorists take an entire school hostage, in Beslan in southern Russia, resulting in more than 300 deaths | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Representatives of the member states of the European Union accept a proposed European Constitution, subject to its ratification by each state | |
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| 2004 |
| | | George W. Bush wins a second term, defeating Democrat John Kerry in the US presidential election | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies in a hospital near Paris | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Prime minister Viktor Yanukovych is at first declared winner of a rigged (and subsequently annulled) presidential election in Ukraine | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Hamid Karzai becomes the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Tests reveal that Viktor Yushchenko, opposition candidate in Ukraine's presidential election, has been poisoned with dyoxin | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Armed robbers, suspected of links with the IRA, steal more than £25 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast | |
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| 2004 |
| | | A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that kills nearly 200,000 people | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko easily wins the re-run of the rigged presidential election in the Ukraine | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Mahmoud Abbas is elected president of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yasser Arafat | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri is killed when a massive bomb is detonated as his car passes in Beirut | |
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| 2005 |
| | | A student at Red Lake High School in Minnesota kills five fellow students and two staff members before committing suicide | |
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| 2005 |
| | | John Paul II, dying after 26 years on the papal throne, is the third longest-serving pope in history | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles, subsequently to be known as the Duchess of Cornwall | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Patriarch Christodoulos attends the funeral in Rome of Pope John Paul II | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Joseph Ratzinger is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XVI | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Following local and international pressure after the death of Rafik Hariri, Syria withdraws the last of its troops from Lebanon | |
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