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WORLD EVENTS AND THE YEAR 2004
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World Events of 2004
- Reports of abuse of prisoners at the US run Abhu Ghraib prison emerge.
Prisoner being tortured in Abu Ghraib
- About one third of Iran's Parliament steps down to protest hard-line Guardian Council's banning of more than 2,000 reformists from running in parliamentary elections.
- Armed rebels in Haiti force President Aristide to resign.
- Spain is rocked by terrorist attacks, killing more than 200. Due to mishandling of this event, the ruling party looses in the general elections.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) admits seven new countries, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia.
- Israeli prime minister Sharon announces plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
- Greek Cypriots reject UN reunification plan with Turkish Cypriots.
- Under continued US occupation of Iraq the stability of the Middle East continues to decline.
US soldier in Iraq
- Security Council demands Sudanese government disarm militias in Darfur that are massacring civilians.
- Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez survives recall referendum.
- Chechen terrorists take about 1,200 school children and others hostage in Beslan, Russia; 340 people die when militants detonate explosives.
- Yasir Arafat dies in Paris.
Yasir Arafat funeral
- Ukraine presidential election declared fraudulent.
- Hamid Karzai inaugurated as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
Hamid Karzai
- A hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 251 pilgrims.
- The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed an Israeli nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s, is released from prison in Israel after serving 18 years for treason.
- The last coal mine in France closes, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.
- A coup d'etat in Chad against the President Idriss Deby fails.
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