Portal:Current events/2003 November 24
November 24, 2003 (Monday)
- Radical Muslim cleric Sheik Nasser al-Fahd denounces suicide bombings, declaring on Saudi TV that "blowing oneself up in such operations is not martyrdom; it is suicide". Some consider this a response to pressure from the Saudi government to recant previous statements.[1]
- The High Court in Glasgow rules that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted in 1999 of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, must serve a minimum of 27 years before being considered for parole.[2]
- A former ANC intelligence operative appears in a South African Court on Monday in connection with an alleged plot to oust or kill President Thabo Mbeki.[3][4]
- A fire in a student hostel at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University kills 32 and injures about 150 people, all foreign students. The fire services blame an electrical fault.[5]
- Pro-democracy groups gain in the Hong Kong District Council elections, as the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong loses 21 of its previous 83 elected seats. DAB chairman Tsang Yok-sing offers to resign.[6]
- Canada, Northwest Territories general election, 2003: Voters in the NWT choose their new government, electing the independent members of their consensus legislature. The premier will be chosen by and among the members on December 10.[7]
- In the United States, telephone number portability as mandated by the FCC takes effect in major metropolitan areas.[8]
- HIV-positive muppet Kami is appointed UN mascot for juvenile AIDS victims.[9]
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- ^ "BBC NEWS - UK - Scotland - Lockerbie bomber to serve 27 years". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-10-29. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
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