September 5, 2003

September 5, 2003

=September 5, 2003=

*Hong Kong's leader Tung Chee-hwa announces that he will indefinitely postpone plans for an extremely unpopular security bill which sparked massive public protests and would have granted the government broad powers to prosecute vaguely defined threats to national security. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32701-2003Sep5.html]
*Palestinian Authority: Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas tells the Palestinian parliament to either support him or fire him, a move seen as making public for the first time his quarrel with Yasser Arafat. [http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030905-120801-4875r.htm] VOA characterizes Mr. Abbas' ultimatum as the latest twist in a power struggle between him and Arafat, who is the President of the Palestinian Authority. [http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B2CDAE69-7656-4FC5-9082E31ABCE4BE1E&title=Palestinian%20PM%20Abbas%20Threatens%20to%20Resign%20Unless%20Government%20Endorsed]
*A car explodes in Vaasa, Finland. One man was killed in this suicide bombing in the corner of a city centre square. This was the second bombing in Finland in a short time: in Jyväskylä an apartment building was bombed on Thursday and is in danger of collapsing. Next bombing was on Friday in Keuruu, where a summer cottage exploded. [http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/kotimaa.shtml?2003/09/184631] [http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/kotimaa.shtml?2003/09/184606] [http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/arkisto.shtml?2003/09/184492]
*David Blaine begins a new stunt. He will stay in a small transparent capsule suspended 30 feet above the ground near Tower Bridge on London's River Thames without food for 44 days. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3083066.stm]
*A train goes off the rails at a roller coaster at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, killing one. [http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/09/07/disneyland.accident/index.html]


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