- August 10, 2003
"See also"
August 9, 2003 -August 2003 -August 11, 2003 ----
* One hundred thousand people attend a rally in the French countryside to condemn next month's round of trade liberalisation talks being held under auspices of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) inCancún inMexico . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3140217.stm]
* Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens gives British police inLondon "shoot-on-sight" orders to deal with possiblesuicide bombers as expectations rise of anAl-Qaeda attack on the British capital. [http://www.itv.com/news/1193545.html]
*War on Terrorism : "The Sunday Times" reports thatAl-Qaeda terrorists have infiltrated Iraq from surrounding Arab countries and have aligned themselves with former intelligence agents ofSaddam Hussein to fight the Coalition forces. Their attacks have killed Coalition soldiers and Iraqi police officers, among others. [http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=129C5297-C75D-4F68-AB79-B0C49D9A7CBB]
*Pope John Paul II urges Catholics to pray for rain in Europe as theheat wave continues. The heat wave in Britain reaches 100degrees Fahrenheit (37.8degrees Celsius ) atHeathrow , for the first time in history. [http://www.itv.com/news/1193541.html] Warnings of avalanches are issued in the Alps, as mountain glaciers melt.
*Liberia n President and convictedwar criminal Charles Taylor, who is to step down tomorrow, has appealed to rebels to "submit to the democratic process'". He also accuses theUnited States of funding the rebels who have besieged the capital,Monrovia , for a week. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0810/liberia.html]
* The Russian space program has the been the first to send aman , adog , awoman , and atourist into space. And it may be the first to marry a couple in space.Yuri Malenchenko (41), aboard the international space station, and his bride,Yekaterina Dmitriyeva (26) inTexas , are making preparations for what seems to be the first cosmic wedding. [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/10/space.wedding/] [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s921147.htm] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3138941.stm] [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20030810/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_space_ukraine]
* The British Conservative Party leaderIain Duncan Smith demands thatPrime Minister Tony Blair apologise for the comments of his press secretary,Tom Kelly , in which Kelly comparedDr. David Kelly , theBBC source who took his own life after his identity was revealed by the Ministry of Defence, to the fictional "Walter Mitty " character. [http://www.itv.com/news/1193542.html]
* A 16-year-oldIsrael i was killed and five people were injured inHezbollah shelling of the northern Israeli town of Shlomi. Israeli planes attacked Hezbollah targets inLebanon in response. Some sources claim Hezbollah's attack was a response to Israel's car-bomb assassination of Hezbollah memberAli Hussein Saleh in Beirut on August 3 in which two passersby were injured. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/10/international1345EDT0475.DTL]
* While retiredSouth Africa n ArchbishopDesmond Tutu and his successor, ArchbishopNjongonkulu Winston Ndungane , fail to see what "all the fuss" is over the ordination of agay bishop, other African Anglicans suggest that their churches may sever relations with the American dioceses that supported the election of a gay priest as bishop if what they called the "path of deviation" is not changed. [http://www.itv.com/news/2012709.html] [http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0810gay-episcopal10.html]
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