Month: October 2003

Baghdad, 26 October, 2003— Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who was on the 12th floor of the Al Rasheed Hotel in downtown Baghdad when it was hit today by rocket-propelled grenades in a terrorist attack, […]

London, 26 October, 2003— On Thursday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced a remarkable new program designed to help developing countries clear two major obstacles to Aids treatment: the high cost of antiretroviral drugs, and […]

Osnabrueck, 26 October, 2003– Europe’s best-endowed environmental award, the Deutscher Umweltpreis, worth EUR 500,000, was awarded for the eleventh time today. Federal President Johannes Rau presented the awards to the Head of the Biomechanics Department […]

Baghdad, 25 October, 2003– Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz took to the streets of Iraq today – literally – to learn firsthand from the Iraqi people as well as U.S. soldiers on how the […]

OUAGADOUGOU, 24 October, 2003– Sixteen people arrested in Burkina Faso for planning an alleged coup against President Blaise Campaore are to be charged before a military tribunal for ”conspiracy against state security,” the government said […]

Abidjan, 24 October, 2003– The government of Cote d’Ivoire has sacked its chief of police following the cold-blooded murder of French radio journalist Jean Helene by a uniformed policeman in Abidjan. The government announced the […]

Madrid, 24 October, 2003– U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says the International Donors’ Conference on the Reconstruction of Iraq will result in higher total pledges than any donors’ conference ever held. Powell spoke October […]

New York, 24 October, 2003– Early in her political career she knocked on doors asking for voters’ support for her candidacy. Now, at the United Nations, Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey is knocking on the doors of […]