Events in January 2003
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Jan 1
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Two Pakistanis were killed and an American injured in the first ever border clash between US and Pakistani forces near the Afghan village of Sikhin in which an American F-16 dropped a bomb hitting a Muslim religious school on the Pakistani side. |
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Pakistan joins the U.N. Security Council as a non-permanent member for two years. |
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Secret British documents throw new light on the 1971 India-Pakistan war that led to the creation of Bangladesh. |
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A secret plan to partition Northern Ireland, involving forced repatriation of nearly half a million people, was seriously considered by the Conservative Government of Edward Heath in the Seventies, it was revealed today. |
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A former shoeshine boy, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, elected Brazil's first leftist President. |
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Jan 4
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In the second incident within a week, Pakistani and United States troops exchanged heavy fire in a tribal area on the Pakistan-Afghan border. |
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At least nine senior nuclear scientists are believed to have fled Pakistan. |
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Jan 6
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There should be no infiltration across the LoC, says US. |
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The US has agreed that its forces cannot enter Pakistani territory without permission. |
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Pakistan decries India's announcement to use nuclear weapons if attacked with biological and chemical weapons. |
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Jan 8
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China says it ``could develop a constructive partnership of cooperation'' with India, and proposed that ``historical problems should never hamper (such) cooperation''. |
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Britain went on a "terror alert'' after traces of a deadly poison, Ricin, were found from a suspected Al-Qaeda cell in north London. |
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Jan 9
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rules out any discussion on reducing its military strength. |
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The twice-postponed South Asian Games would be held in Islamabad from March 9 to April 8. |
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Jan 10
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North Korea announces its "immediate withdrawal'' from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). |
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Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, reassures world there is no chance of an "accidental" nuclear war with India. "Pakistan's missiles were not nuclear-tipped and were kept geographically apart under the nuclear command," he said. |
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Jan 13
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Former Argentine military dictator, Leopoldo Galtieri, who led his country into a failed 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, died on Jan. 12 of heart and respiratory problems. |
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Jan 16
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Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-American woman to be sent to space, embarked on her second voyage when the US space shuttle Columbia blasted off for a research mission from Cape Canaveral that would help develop medicines to treat several diseases, including cancer. |
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German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, and French President, Jacques Chirac, took an epoch-making decision when they agreed on the future of the European Union. A dual-elected presidency for the European Union was suggested. |
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Jan 17
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A defiant Iraqi President Saddam Hussein calls on his people to rise up and defend the nation against a new United States-led attack.In a speech on the 12th anniversary of the (First) Gulf War, he said Iraq's enemies would face ``suicide'' at the gates of his capital. |
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Jan 18
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Clonaid, funded by the Raelians, the sect which had claimed to have succeeded in producing two cloned humans, announced that the first cloned Japanese baby will be born next week. |
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A seven-ship armada carrying 10,000 sailors and Marines set sail from the San Diego naval station for possible duty in a war with Iraq. |
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Jan 19
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India's Charge d'Affaires in Pakistan, Sudhir Vyas, harassed by sleuths of Pakistani intelligence agencies. |
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Chief United Nations Weapons Inspector, Hans Blix, arrives in Baghdad amid expectations of hard negotiations with the Iraqi leadership. |
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Jan 20
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`Chicago,' a simmering tale of murder and love during the jazz era and the wrenching drama `The Hours' scooped up top honours at the 2003 Golden Globe Awards. |
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Jan 22
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France and Germany express opposition to the US for a planned conflict in Iraq. |
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Jan 23
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In a retaliatory move, Pakistan expels three diplomats and a staffer of the Indian High Commission asking them to leave the country within 48 hours. |
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Jan 24
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Deputy Prime Minister, L. K. Advani, concludes official visit to France with the signing of a bilateral extradition treaty. |
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The next round of peace talks between Colombo and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to be held in Berlin between February 7 and 8. |
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Jan 26
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US President, George Bush, has signed a top secret directive authorising pre-emptive strikes against nations close to acquiring nuclear weapons. |
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Jan 27
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Chief Weapons Inspector, Hans Blix, has charged Iraq with not fully accepting the UN resolution on disarmament and said that while Baghdad had been cooperating on the process a lot more had to be done on "substance''. |
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Jan 29
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Close on the heels of an American magazine degrading Mahatma Gandhi, another attempt to humiliate the Father of the Nation has been made by MTV USA, which has depicted his animated clone who sports ear-rings. |
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Maoist leader in Nepal, Prachanda, calls for a ceasefire and agreed to hold peace talks with the Government. |
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Jan 30
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US President, George W. Bush, calls on the world to unite and pressure the "dangerous" Iraqi leader (Saddam Hussein) to disarm. |
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Seven European leaders defy Germany and France to throw their weight behind Washington in the standoff with Iraq. |
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Jan 31
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Chief UN Weapons Inspector, Hans Blix, challenges accusations Washington has lobbed at Iraq, saying inspection teams had found nothing to back them up. |
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"Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid, 29-year-old British citizen, sentenced to life in prison for the Dec. 22, 2001, bombing attempt aboard a Paris-to-Miami American Airlines flight. |
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