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August 12, 2004
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2004-08-12
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Lee Hsien Loong
is sworn in as the third
Prime Minister of Singapore
.
(Taipei Times)
(VOA)
New Jersey
Governor
Jim McGreevey
resigns his post effective November 15, saying that his extramarital
homosexual
affair would leave the governor's office "vulnerable to rumors, false allegations and threats of disclosure.".
(CNN)
Unanimously determining that
San Francisco's
same-sex marriages
are illegal, the
California Supreme Court
votes 5–2 to annul all 4,000 such marriages performed in San Francisco this year.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
(CNN)
(BBC)
EU Commission President-designate
José M. Durão Barroso
announces the portfolios assigned to the members of his new
European Commission
.
(EU Press Release)
A
Roman Catholic
seminary
at St Poelten in Austria is shut down following allegations of sexual impropriety.
(BBC)
In
Najaf
, US forces besiege the
Imam Ali Mosque
, where followers of the radical
Shia
cleric
Moqtada al Sadr
are barricaded.
(BBC)
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