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Revision as of 07:23, 21 March 2002
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Breaking news--Daily events
The U.S. Senate passes the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill 60-40.
Wikipedia reaches the 27,000 article mark on its front page article counter.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called a three-day general strike protesting police interference with union meetings, harassment of trade unionists and general lawlessness following the general elections, which has led to slow-downs in business. In South Korea, 5,600 power plant workers are on the 25th day of their strike, protesting the neoliberal government plans to privatize the state-run electricity plants. A vote among the remaining power plant workers to strike was cancelled due to company interference.
Israel ground troops invade the West Bank and Gaza Strip in her largest offensive since the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Dozens of tanks occupy Ramallah. 37 total dead so far, Israeli and Palestinian.
Robert Mugabe has won the Zimbabwe elections with 54% of the vote to Morgan Tsvangirai's 40% on a turnout of 55.9%. His victory is controversial and comes amid claims that many were prevented from voting and there was a campaign of intimidation. But election observers from South Africa and the Organisation of African Unity have stated that the outcome was legitimate.
2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. Around 3 a.m. local time a MH-47 Chinook helicopter was hit by an rocket-propelled grenade, causing a soldier to fall out and damaging a hydraulic line. The helicopter made an emergency landing a half-mile away.
A second helicopter on the mission picked up the first helicopter's crew and flew to where the crew member had fallen. The soldiers soon came under heavy fire, and six were killed. The remaining soldiers returned fire and retrieved the bodies before returning to base.
Bubble fusion: Scientific papers for and against the observation of apparent nuclear fusion in imploding bubbles are now available online. If this can be repeated, this is an important scientific breakthrough. Other physicists fear that this may be a repeat of the cold fusion fiasco.
2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley L. Harriman, of the Third Special Forces Group, is killed in an ambush along the road from Gardez to the Shahi Kot Valley.
Space shuttle mission STS-109 is launched at 6:22 a.m. EST today.
The Bush Administration admits the existence of a shadow government with the implementation of the Continuity of Operations Plan.
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Background for ongoing current events
U.S. "War on Terrorism"
- Developing stories: War on Terrorism - 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan
- Ethnicity: People of Afghanistan - Azerbaijan - Pashtun - Tajik
- Geography: Afghanistan - Baghlan, Afghanistan - Georgia, Caucasus - Israel - Kabul - Kandahar - Kunduz, Afghanistan - New York City - Pakistan - Palestine - United States of America - Washington, D.C. - Camp X-Ray
- History: September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Back history
- People: Osama Bin Laden - Tony Blair - George W. Bush - Abdul Rashid Dostum - Pervez Musharraf - Mullah Mohammed Omar - Burhanuddin Rabbani - Donald H. Rumsfeld - Abdul Sattar
- Organizations: al Qaeda - CDC - Northern Alliance - Taliban - United Nations - United Nations Security Council - U.S. Special Operations
- 2001 anthrax attack: individual cases of anthrax - anthrax - individual cases of anthrax - antibiotic resistance - biological warfare - biological weapon - ciprofloxacin - gas mask - germ warfare - vaccine
- Concepts
- Geographical: airport - airspace - pipeline
- Military/guerilla/defense technology and strategy: aircraft carrier - airport security - baggage screening - car bomb - domestic security - aircraft hijacking - smallpox - terrorist cell
- Political: anti-Americanism - domestic terrorism - foreign aid - foreign aid worker - humanitarian aid - peace - risk analysis - terrorism - terrorist groups - war
- Religious: Islamism
- Psychological: collective trauma
U.S. Domestic Response to Terrorism: Background
- Geography: New York City - Reno, Nevada - Washington, D.C.
- People: John Ashcroft - George W. Bush - Colin Powell -
- Organizations: Air Transport Association - Central Intelligence Agency - U.S. Department of Defense - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Office of Homeland Security - Office of Strategic Influence
- Concepts: bipartisanship - electronic surveillance - encryption - wiretap - tax cut
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
World Trade Center - Pentagon - New York City - Washington, D.C. - AA Flight 11 - UA Flight 75 - AA Flight 77 - UA Flight 93 - September 11
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Background
- Ethnicity: Israeli - Jew - Palestinian
- Geography: Gaza - Gaza Strip - Golan Heights - Israel - Judea - Palestine - Syria - West Bank
- People: Yasser Arafat - Shimon Peres - Colin Powell - Nabil Shaath - Ariel Sharon
- Religion: Islam - Judaism
Other Conflicts
Europe
Business news
Celebrity news
Sports news
Holidays
Topics removed from current events
News pages
External links to news pages that can be used to gather new topics for the above list.
- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news - Coverage split in to science/health etc... for UK and world news
- http://www.cnn.com