- November 29, 2003
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Norfolk, Virginia , the USS "Cole" leaves port on the destroyer's first overseas deployment since it was bombed is the year 2000 inYemen 's port atAden . [http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/29/cole.deploys.ap/index.html]
* Police inTurkey announce the arrest of a yet-unnamed man they state has admitted giving the order tosuicide bomber s to attackBeth Israel synagogue inIstanbul onNovember 15 . [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/29/turkey.arrest/index.html]
*Luan Enjie , director of the National Aerospace Bureau of thePeople's Republic of China states that "By 2020, we will achieve visiting the moon." [http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/11/29/china.moon.ap/index.html]
*Occupation of Iraq : A team of 8 Spanish intelligence agents is attacked south ofBaghdad ; 7 are killed and 1 wounded. [http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-iraq-attack,0,878878.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines] Two Japanese diplomats are killed nearTikrit . Two U.S. soldiers and a Colombian civilian contractor are killed in Baghdad.
*InAustralia , the opposition Labor Party's finance spokesperson,Mark Latham , announces that he will contest the party leadership ballot on2 December against the former leaderKim Beazley . Press reports place the two candidates at about 40 votes each, with about ten undecided. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s999859.htm]
*French and Germanuniversity students continue to hold protests, including strikes, over controversial policies such as tuition fees. German students also occupied the central offices of the PDS inBerlin , following a similar protest earlier in the week in which 30 to 40 students occupied the office ofThomas Flierl for more than 24 hours. Protests in both countries have been continuing to spread for the last two weeks. [http://print.indymedia.org/news/2003/11/1699.php?theme=default] [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/11/282025.html] [http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3772-2852181,00.html] German press: [http://www.rhein-main.net/sixcms/list.php?page=fnp2_news_article&id=1387077] , [http://morgenpost.berlin1.de/inhalt/berlin/story644038.html]
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