- November 20, 2003
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November 20 ,2003 =* The
FTAA negotiations inMiami end one day early; a menu approach is adopted to assure the future of the agreement, allowing individual countries to opt out of controversial or unacceptable provisions. Between 10,000 and 25,000 protestors demonstrate outside the conference center; the police userubber bullet s, and over 100 people are arrested. [http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/73394/1/] [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/798C19F0-648C-479E-9400-0963A2234919.htm]
* Terrorist attacks: Bombs hitIstanbul ,Turkey . At least 25 are killed and hundreds injured in two car-bomb blasts that devastate the Turkish headquarters of HSBC and the British consulate. British Consul-GeneralRoger Short is among the dead. TheGreat Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (IBDA-C), a radicalIslamist group, claims responsibility. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3222608.stm]
* Between 110,000 (according to the police) and 300,000 (according to the organization) people demonstrate in and aroundTrafalgar Square inLondon against the war inIraq andGeorge W. Bush 's state visit. [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/11/281262.html]
* ThePeople's Republic of China says it may retaliate against restrictions the US is to impose on imports of Chinese textile products. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3222580.stm]
* Pop musicianMichael Jackson turns himself in to the Santa Barbara Sheriff's office and is officially charged with child molestation. [http://www.sbsheriff.org/wn/spr/11200301.html]
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