June 20, 2005

June 20, 2005

June 20 2005 (Monday)

* In USA, chief US immigration judge Michael Creppy rules that Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk can be deported because he was a concentration camp guard during World War II [http://www.10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3499248 (WBNS, Ohio)] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001591.html (Washington Post)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8842628 (Reuters)]
* In Brazil, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva names energy minister Dilma Rousseff as a cabinet chief because of José Dirceu's resignation [http://www.aebrazil.com/highlights/2005/jun/20/96.htm (AE Brazil)] [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-21T030116Z_01_N20555890_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-BRAZIL-POLITICS-DC.XML (Reuters)]
* Turkey sentences Islamist extremist Metin Kaplan, the "Caliph of Cologne", to life in prison for his role in a plot to blow up the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk.
* Cedar Revolution: The Anti-Syrian bloc of Saad al-Hariri captured control of the Lebanese Legislature in the Lebanese general election of 2005, winning 72 of the 128 available seats. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050620/wl_nm/lebanon_dc_16;_ylt=AvB8JklhkZqTHo8b8KUZ5LjagGIB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl (Yahoo!)]
* A Suicide bomber in Iraq kills 13 policemen, and injured more than 100 people, in the city of Irbil, northern Iraq. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4109908.stm BBC News]
* Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
** One Israeli is killed in West Bank ambush after Palestinian militants shot his car. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, calling it retaliation for arrests of Islamic Jihad members. [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3101323,00.html (Ynet)] , [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/589578.html (Haaretz)]
** An unarmed Palestinian teenager, Ihab an-Nabahin, is shot by Israelis in a closed border area of the Gaza Strip, and killed according to Palestinian sources. ( [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4110466.stm BBC] ) ( [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B65FF554-B970-4C7A-BF73-F874BA839EE4.htm Al-Jazeera] )
** According to the Israeli army, a Palestinian female suicide bomber was caught in the Erez Crossing, carrying explosives and a detonator in her underwear. Israeli media added that she planned to carry out a suicide bombing attack in the Soroka hospital, where she received medical treatment and was scheduled for a doctor's appointment (the army has not confirmed this.) The woman was identified as Wafa Samir Ibrahim Bass and said she was sent by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades decline to comment. [http://www.haaretz.com (Haaretz NewsFlash)] , [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3101498,00.html (Ynet)] ( [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4110466.stm BBC] ) ( [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B65FF554-B970-4C7A-BF73-F874BA839EE4.htm Al-Jazeera] )
* British Potato Council demonstrates for the removal of the term "couch potato" from the Oxford English Dictionary because potatoes are "inherently healthy" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4108964.stm (BBC)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1510150,00.html (Guardian Unlimited)]
* In Japan, magnitude 4.9 earthquake hits central Niigata Prefecture, with little reported damage and no tsunami risk [http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=340874 (Japan Today)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T146838.htm (Reuters AlertNet)]
* International Whaling Commission meets in Ulsan, South Korea. Japan tries to ease its restrictions to whaling but its suggestion to exclude proposed creation of whale sanctuaries is voted down [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/whaling.meeting/ (CNN)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8833514 (Reuters)] [http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=340879 (Japan Today)]
* John Rigas, founder of cable company Adelphia Communications is sentenced to 15 years in prison on last summer's securities fraud conviction. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=akRfX9bZxkGI&refer=us (Bloomberg)]
* [http://www.gpiatlantic.org/conference/program00.htm The Second International Conference on Gross National Happiness] opens at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada


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