- December 15, 2003
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December 15 ,2003 =*
Wesley Clark concludes his first day of closed-door testimony againstSlobodan Milošević at theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia . [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/15/hague.tribunal.clark.reut/index.html]
* US Secretary of StateColin Powell successfully undergoes two hours ofprostate cancer surgery at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. [http://us.cnn.com/2003/US/12/15/powell.surgery/index.html]
*Capture of Saddam Hussein :
** US PresidentGeorge W. Bush promises a "fair trial" for Saddam, refusing demands to hand him over to an international court. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3321983.stm]
**U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says, about Saddam, "... as secretary-general ... I am not going to now turn around and support adeath penalty ". [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20031215/wl_nm/iraq_un_dc]
* The results of parliamentary elections in the self-proclaimedTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus are announced: pro-European Union parties won a narrow victory over the ruling nationalist coalition, with the opposition Republican Turkish Party becoming the largest party. However, the republic's complicated electoral system means that the two sides will each have 25 seats in the 50-seat assembly. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3317125.stm]
* Safeway, a Britishgrocery store chain, is the subject of a £3bn ($5.2bn USD) takeover bid from rival supermarket chain Morrisons. [http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/15/news/international/safeway_morris.reut/]
*Liberian Crisis : theUnited Nations announces the suspension of its disarmament campaign for a month. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=515&ncid=723&e=6&u=/ap/20031215/ap_on_re_af/liberia_disarmament]
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