January 7, 2005

January 7, 2005

January 7 2005

* 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake:
** Japan sends its largest military deployment since World War II to tsunami-hit countries, with around 1,000 troops on standby. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/eastasia/view/126205/1/.html (CNA)]
** The Group of Seven Industrialised Nations (G7) agrees to a moratorium on the debt repayments of countries worst affected by the tsunamis in Asia, sources at the HM Treasury said. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/126202/1/.html (CNA)]
** FBI warn of fake disaster appeal scams [http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/07/technology/tsunami_scams/ (CNN)]
* Ten gang members are sentenced to prison terms of 25 to 40 years for the murders of 12 women in Juárez, Mexico; however, many hundreds of the deaths in Ciudad Juárez remain unsolved. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4155551.stm (BBC)]
* Northern Ireland police Chief Constable Hugh Orde publicly accuses the Provisional IRA of the largest bank robbery in U.K. history, now assessed at £26.5 million. The money was taken from the Northern Bank in Belfast on December 20. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4154657.stm (BBC)] [http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0107/belfast.html (RTÉ)]
* Conflict in Iraq:
**Seven U.S. soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4153543.stm (BBC)]
** The French newspaper "Libération" reports that its journalist Florence Aubenas is missing in Iraq. [http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=266350 (Libération)] [http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=650050 (Reuters)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4152783.stm (BBC)]
* Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
** Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti is arrested by Israeli police on the last day of the campaign as he tried to enter the Al-Aqsa mosque. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4153465.stm (BBC)]
** One Israeli is killed and four are wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack in the north West Bank. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim responsibility. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/524290.html (Haaretz)]
* The People's Republic of China jails five people for eight years for selling fake infant formula, which has caused the deaths of at least 13 infants and illness in 189. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK133339.htm (Reuters Alertnet)]
* The Ukrainian Supreme Court rejects Viktor Yanukovych's appeal against the electoral commission's decision that he lost the presidential election. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4152737.stm (BBC)] [http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=649874 (Reuters)]
* Chilean officials search the offices of Augusto Pinochet and investigate his U.S. bank accounts. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4153309.stm (BBC)]
* 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen is arrested for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers that inspired the American Civil Rights Movement and the film "Mississippi Burning". [http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/07/mississippi.rights/index.html (CNN)]


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