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Deaths in August • '\'None reported so far'' Other recent deaths Ongoing events Reconstruction of Iraq - Occupation & Resistance - Trials of high-ranking Ba'athists Darfur conflict in Sudan Israeli-Palestinian conflict War on Terrorism USA 9-11 Commission Same-sex marriage in the USA AIDS epidemic Abu Ghraib investigation Ongoing wars Upcoming events Aug.13-29: Olympics in Athens Aug.30-Sep.2: U.S. Repub.N.C Aug.31-Sep.14: WorldCup of Hockey Upcoming elections August 15: Hugo Chávez recall September 12: Hong Kong LegCo October 9: Afghan presidential November 2: U.S. president, U.S. Congress 2004: Australian legislature Oct/Nov 2004: Irish president Election results in August • None reported so far Related pages About this page Year in Wikipedia Announcements

August 2, 2004

• A poll shows that U.S presidential candidate John Kerry gained limited support after the Democratic Convention. (ABC News)
• The U.S plans to shift 3,600 soldiers to Iraq from South Korea. (Reuters)
• Turkey's truckers' association says it will stop delivering goods to U.S forces in Iraq, in what appears to be a direct response to insurgents' videotaped killing of a Turkish hostage. (Herald Sun)
• Doom 3, the long-awaited second follow-up to the 1993 first-person shooting classic, is leaked online. (BBC)
• A Philippine lawyer who helped recover millions of dollars stashed by late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and a doctor who exposed China's SARS outbreak are among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia's version of the Nobel Prize (Yahoo!)
• Five Moroccans detained at the U.S military camp in Guantanamo Bay are turned over to authorities in their home country. (The Australian)
• The Indian Army claims to be confronting teenaged militants, some as young as 13 or 14, wielding sophisticated arms, along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. (Times Of India)
• The Iraqi government blames Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for a series of church bombings that killed at least 11 people, saying the aim was to spark religious strife and drive Christians out of the country. (Khaleej Times)
• Sudan's army says the UN resolution on the conflict in Darfur is "a declaration of war" and threatens to fight any foreign intervention. (BBC)
• India's junior Foreign Minister, Edappakath Ahamed, declares that the Indian government has no confirmation of the release of 3 truck drivers who were taken hostage in Iraq in late July. (Yahoo!)
• The government of Paraguay confirms that at least 275 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción. The death toll is still expected to rise as a more thorough search is completed. (Seattle Post) (CNN)
• Police make arrests following the assassination attempt on Pakistan's prime minister-designate. (Herald Sun)
• U.S General Tommy Franks discloses that, through a double agent codenamed "April Fool", he tricked Saddam Hussein into bungling the defense of his country. (The Australian)

August 1, 2004

• Lawyers reveal that African American workers are to sue Eastman Kodak Co, charging that the firm paid them less and promoted them less often than white colleagues. (Reuters)
• The U.S raises the security alert level to high for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, the New York Stock Exchange and companies in the New York City area on Sunday after intelligence signals a possible al Qaeda attack. (Reuters)
• Kuwait bans Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 because it deems the movie insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family and critical of America's invasion of Iraq. (AP)
• Four car bombs explode just minutes apart outside four nearby churches in central Baghdad and one car bomb explodes at a church in Mosul during Sunday evening services, killing 5 and injuring at least 46 people, witnesses say. The attacks appeared to be the first targeting churches during the 15-months of violent insurgency. (AP)CNN
• Chinese authorities say they have shut down nearly 700 websites and arrested 224 people in a new campaign against internet pornography. (BBC)
• The French Ambassador to Chad, Jean Pierre Bercot, says that France will deploy 200 soldiers to help secure Chad's eastern border with Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region. The troops will also bring humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in Chad. (BBC)
• World Trade Organization members agree on a revised draft deal that aims to revive stalled talks on freeing up trade between rich and poor nations. Key WTO members accept proposals to cut the subsidies wealthy countries give their farmers for exports. (BBC)
• Over 311 people are killed and 276 injured in a fire which swept a market in Asunción, Paraguay. (AP)(CNN)

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