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September 30, 2005
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2005-09-30
)
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
An unarmed
Palestinian
boy, 13 years old, is shot dead by
Israel Defense Forces
troops.
Israel
declares its intention to hold an inquiry into the event.
(BBC)
Two members of the
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
are shot dead in an
Israeli
raid into the
Balata refugee camp
, in
Nablus
, on the
West Bank
.
(BBC)
Iraq War
: 10 people die following a
car bomb
in
Hillah
,
Iraq
.
(BBC)
Jyllands-Posten
, a Danish newspaper, publishes 12 editorial cartoons which depict
Muhammad
.
United Nations
World Food Programme
warns that a sharp increase in
malnutrition
rates and rapidly rising
maize
prices in
Malawi
could push the number of vulnerable people in need of food aid up to five million.
(Reuters)
The new United Nations coordinator for
human
and
avian influenza
warns that 5-150 million people could die in a flu
epidemic
. Humans have no natural immunity to the virus.
(M&C News)
(BBC)
An
Osaka
High Court judge rules that the visit by Japanese
Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi
to the
Yasukuni Shrine
violates the
constitution
's separation of church and state. The visit by a Japanese head of government to the war shrine is a sensitive issue with
China
and
South Korea
.
(Reuters)
United States negotiators in
Geneva
are caught off guard by
European
demands for a change from
U.S. Commerce Department
control to international regulation of the
Internet
.
(International Herald Tribune)
(openDemocracy)
U.S. Senator
Harry Reid
, and other
Democrats
, criticize talk show host
William Bennett
for saying: "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
(WLTX)
New York Times
journalist
Judith Miller
testifies before a federal grand jury and identifies
Lewis Libby
, Vice President
Dick Cheney
's chief of staff, as her confidential source for a non-published story about the
unmasking
of a
CIA
agent in 2003.
(CNN)
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