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2004 Mar 13 |
Near Barstow, California, robotic vehicles began a 200-mile road race sponsored by DARPA. The Pentagon sponsored race ended without a winner, as none of the autonomous vehicles built by the 15 qualifying teams was able to travel farther than 7 miles from the starting line. Links: California, Cars, Robot 
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2004 Mar 13 |
Iran froze inspections of its nuclear facilities after the U.N. atomic agency censured Tehran for hiding suspect activities. Tehran relented two days later. Links: UN, Iran, Nuclear
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2004 Mar 13 |
In Tikrit, Iraq, a roadside bomb killed two American soldiers and wounded three. 3 American soldiers died in two bomb explosions in Baghdad. A 4th died from his injuries the next morning. Links: Iraq, USA
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2004 Mar 13 |
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinian militants in an off-limits military zone between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2004 Mar 13 |
In Pakistan the India cricket team beat a Pakistan team at Karachi's National Stadium in a match that came down to the final ball. Links: India, Pakistan
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2005 Mar 13 |
In southern Brazil a tourist-filled bus crashed into a logging truck, killing seven people and injuring at least 20. Links: Brazil, Bus Crash
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2005 Mar 13 |
Paul Schaefer (83), former head of a secretive German colony in southern Chile, was flown to Santiago after his arrest in Argentina. Schaefer founded Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, a commune-like enclave in 1961, and is accused in the disappearance of a dissident under dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Links: Argentina, Chile
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2005 Mar 13 |
In Musina, South Africa, thousands of protesters held an 18-hour vigil on the border with Zimbabwe to demonstrate against mounting repression in the neighboring country two weeks before a key parliamentary election there. Links: South Africa, Zimbabwe
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2005 Mar 13 |
The Disney Corp. board of directors named Robert Iger to succeed Michael Eisner in October. Links: USA
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2005 Mar 13 |
In India at least 19 people were killed and 15 injured when a bus skidded off a mountain road into a deep gorge in Uttaranchal. Links: India, Bus Crash
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2005 Mar 13 |
Israel's Cabinet adopted a report on the state's complicity in setting up 105 illegal West Bank settlement outposts and decided to dismantle 24 of them. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2005 Mar 13 |
Kyrgyzstan held parliamentary runoff elections amid rising tension over signs the longtime leader plans to extend his rule beyond constitutional limits. President Askar Akayev (60) won an overwhelmingly loyal Parliament in runoff elections. The opposition won 6 of 75 seats and said the vote was riddled with abuses. Links: Kyrgyzstan
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2005 Mar 13 |
Vigilantes in Oaxaca, Mexico, killed a state police officer setting him on fire in revenge for the shooting of a taxi driver in a barroom brawl. Links: Mexico
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2005 Mar 13 |
Saudi police killed an alleged Islamic militant and arrested three others in a shootout at a suspected terror cell hideout in the Red Sea city of Jiddah. Links: Saudi Arabia
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2005 Mar 13 |
Venezuela announced that it would seize parts of 4 large estates, some 270,000 acres of farmland, after finding irregularities in their ownership status. Links: Venezuela
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2005 Mar 13 |
Pope John Paul II was released from the hospital and returned to his Vatican apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square. Links: Vatican
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2006 Mar 13 |
US Credit-card issuer Capital One Financial Corp. said it has agreed to buy North Fork Bancorp. Inc. in a stock and cash deal worth about $14.6 billion. Links: USA, M&A
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2006 Mar 13 |
The McClatchy Co. said it has reached a deal to buy Knight Ridder Inc., the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, for about $4.5 billion in cash and stock. McClatchy will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt. Links: USA, M&A
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2006 Mar 13 |
A UN agency said bird flu has been found at two sites in Afghanistan and there's a high risk that tests could prove it to be the deadly H5N1 strain. Links: Bird Flu, Afghan
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2006 Mar 13 |
Bangladesh riot police fired tear gas in Dhaka to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing activists who tried to march in support of a general strike. Links: Bangladesh
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2006 Mar 13 |
Defense Secretary John Reid said Britain will cut its forces in Iraq by 10 percent, a reduction of about 800 troops, by May because Iraqi security forces are becoming more capable of handling security. Links: Iraq, Britain
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2006 Mar 13 |
News reports said the world industrial-standards association has rejected China's controversial wireless encryption standard for global use. Links: China, Telecom
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2006 Mar 13 |
Liu Zhijun, China’s minister of railways, announced $25 billion plans to build two new high-speed train lines linking Shanghai with Beijing (1320km) and another linking Shanghai and Hangzhou (175km). Plans included the use of magnetic levitation technology that can reach speeds of 260 mph. Links: China, Technology
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2006 Mar 13 |
Germany's public sector strikes entered their sixth week developing into a test of union strength and exposing cracks between the parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government. Links: Germany, Labor
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2006 Mar 13 |
Merck KGaA, a maker of pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals, launched a 15-billion-euro (18-billion-dollar) hostile takeover bid for Berlin-based rival Schering, opening the way for a bitter bidding battle. Links: Germany, Pharma, M&A
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2006 Mar 13 |
Indonesia's state-run oil and gas company Pertamina and Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to jointly operate the country's largest untapped oil field, ending a five-year dispute that had shaken foreign investors' confidence in the sprawling archipelago. Links: USA, Oil, Indonesia
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2006 Mar 13 |
Iraqi officials received a report alleging that American soldiers had killed a family of 4 in the Khasir Abyad area, about 6 miles north of Mahmoudiya. Police found four hanged men dangling from electricity pylons in a Baghdad Shiite slum, hours after car bombs and mortars shells ripped through teeming market streets, killing at least 58 people and wounding more than 200. An armed group that says it was created with government backing to drive al-Qaida fighters out of a restive Iraqi province claimed that it had killed five top members of the terrorist group. 2 US soldiers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, were killed in fighting in Anbar province. Links: Iraq, USA, Murder, al-Qaida, Lynching, Rape
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2006 Mar 13 |
The Tokyo Stock Exchange said shares of disgraced Japanese Internet startup Livedoor Co. will be delisted from the exchange next month over alleged securities law violations. Links: Japan
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2006 Mar 13 |
Leaders of Lebanon's rival factions resumed talks after a weeklong break in an attempt to agree on the biggest issues that divide the country, the fate of the pro-Syrian president and the U.N. call for Hezbollah's disarmament. Links: Lebanon
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2006 Mar 13 |
Myanmar reported its first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Links: Myanmar, Bird Flu
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2006 Mar 13 |
Nepal's royal government offered amnesty, cash, jobs and land to communist rebels who surrender in the next three months. Links: Nepal
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2006 Mar 13 |
Peter Tomarken (63), former host of the 1980s TV game show "Press Your Luck," and his wife, Kathleen Abigail Tomarken (41), were killed along with 2 others when their small plane crashed into Santa Monica Bay, Ca. Links: USA, Air Crash, TV
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2006 Mar 13 |
Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghanistan's defense minister, said the national army will be fully operational within four to five years and ready to take over more responsibility for security from international troops. Links: Afghan
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2006 Mar 13 |
Rana Abdel Rahim Koleilat (39), a fugitive bank executive wanted for questioning in the U.N. probe of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, was arrested in Brazil on an unrelated charge. She offered officers up to $200,000 to release her and was arrested on a charge of attempted bribery. In 2003 Koleilat made headlines in Lebanon and Europe in connection with questions about her role in the disappearance of $300 million from the private Medina Bank where she worked. The funds' disappearance was the worst financial scandal at a Lebanese bank since the country's 1975-90 civil war. Links: Brazil, UN, Lebanon, Corp. Scandal
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2006 Mar 13 |
Newly inaugurated President Michelle Bachelet said that all Chileans older than 60 will immediately begin receiving free care at public hospitals. Links: Chile, Medical
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2006 Mar 13 |
Iranian lawmakers approved spending $15 million to investigate alleged American intervention in the country. Links: USA, Iran
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2006 Mar 13 |
Mexico’s attorney general said he will close a special prosecutor's office dedicated to investigating atrocities committed by the government during its two-decade campaign to weed out suspected guerrillas and leftists. Links: Mexico
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2006 Mar 13 |
In Nigeria and official report said ethnic and religious fighting, land disputes and communal conflicts have driven more than three million Nigerians from their homes since the return to democracy in 1999. Links: Nigeria
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2006 Mar 13 |
Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief, said increasing violence has left hundreds of thousands of civilians in Sudan's Darfur region without food and facing the prospect of widespread disease and death within weeks. Links: UN, Sudan
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2006 Mar 13 |
Pope Benedict XVI and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks at the Vatican about Iran, Iraq and the prospects for lasting peace in the Middle East. Links: Vatican, Egypt
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2006 Mar 13 |
The US Agriculture Dept. confirmed that a cow in Alabama had tested positive for mad cow disease. The animal had not entered the food supply for people of animals. This case of the disease, as well as one from Texas in 2005, was later reported as atypical. Links: USA, Alabama, Mad Cow
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2006 Mar 13 |
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force announced a merger with the Institute for Welcoming Resources, a religious group representing 1,400 Protestant organizations that unconditionally welcome gays and lesbians. Links: Gays, Religion
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2006 Mar 13 |
The Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Black Sabboth, Blondie, Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Sex Pistols at a ceremony in NYC. Links: USA, Ohio, Pop&Rock
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2006 Mar 13 |
South Korea’s Kia Motors Corp. said it will build a $1.2 billion factory in West Point, Ga., its first in the US. Toyota said it will build a plant in Lafayette, Ind. Links: GeorgiaUS, South Korea, Cars, Indiana
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2006 Mar 13 |
Maureen Stapleton (b.1925), film and stage actress, died in Lenox, Mass. Links: USA, Massachusetts, Filmstar
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2006 Mar 13 |
Heart researchers said clogging of arteries by plaque was reversed through aggressive use of an anticholesterol statin. Links: USA, Medical, Pharma, Heart
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2006 Mar 13 |
In London 6 men participated in a drug trial and soon became seriously ill. The men had been given does of TGN1412, a monoclonal antibody developed by TeGenero AG of Wuerzburg, Germany, for treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and leukemia. Links: Britain, Germany, Medical, Pharma, BioTech
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2006 Mar 13 |
A Spanish judge indicted 32 people for allegedly plotting to drive a truck packed with explosives into a courthouse that has been the hub for anti-terrorism investigations. Authorities suspected that Mohamed Achraf was planning to ram a truck loaded with 1,100 pounds of explosives into the court in downtown Madrid. Links: Spain
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2006 Mar 13 |
Deadly tornadoes raked the Midwest while wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle. Links: Texas, WeatherUS
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2007 Mar 13 |
A suicide bomber crossed the border from Pakistan into southern Afghanistan and blew himself up in a crowded pedestrian area, killing three civilians and wounding eight. Links: Suicide, Afghan
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2007 Mar 13 |
Australia and Japan signed a groundbreaking defense pact in Tokyo that the leaders of both countries stressed was not aimed at reining in China, but the road ahead for a two-way trade deal looked rougher. Links: Australia, Japan
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2007 Mar 13 |
Canada said it had the highest population growth rate among G-8 industrialized nations between 2001 and 2006, thanks to the arrival of 1.2 million immigrants. Links: Canada
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2007 Mar 13 |
In Mexico Pres. Bush met with Pres. Felipe Calderon in Merida. Bush sought to soothe strained ties by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough US immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized US plans for a 700-mile border fence. Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the US Embassy in Mexico City, attacking riot police with concrete blocks, metal bars and tearing down barricades to protest Bush's visit. Links: USA, Mexico, BushGW
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2007 Mar 13 |
Iraq's Shiite prime minister made a groundbreaking and unannounced visit to Ramadi, the Sunni insurgent stronghold in Anbar province. A roadside bomb hit a minibus carrying Industry Ministry employees in northern Baghdad, killing two workers and wounding six. In Suwayrah police dragged two bodies out of Tigris River. The bodies showed signs of torture. In Kut gunmen killed Ibrahim Sasa, an interpreter working for coalition troops. Links: Iraq
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2007 Mar 13 |
Somalia's president came under mortar attack in his palace, hours after arriving for a rare visit to the increasingly violent capital, witnesses said. A 12-year-old boy was killed and three of his siblings were wounded in the shelling. Links: Somalia
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2007 Mar 13 |
Vietnam's former deputy trade minister and his son went on trial for accepting bribes for quotas to export textiles to the US, in a major graft case with 14 defendants. Links: Vietnam
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2007 Mar 13 |
Federal agents in Connecticut raided New Haven police headquarters and charged the head of the narcotics division with stealing thousands of dollars planted by the FBI during sting operations. Links: USA, Drugs, Connecticut
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2007 Mar 13 |
New Mexico got an official state neckwear, a real Western icon, the bolo tie. Links: USA, New Mexico, Fashion
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2007 Mar 13 |
Environmental group Greenpeace launched a fresh attack on genetically modified maize developed by US biotech giant Monsanto, saying that rats fed on one version developed liver and kidney problems. Links: USA, Environment, Food, BioTech, Agriculture
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2007 Mar 13 |
Scientists reported the discovery of what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, with one about as big as Montana. Links: Saturn, Titan
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