January 2005 - January 21 2005

January 21 2005

• In Belize, the unrest continues for a second day. Water has been cut and government buildings have been torched. (Belize channel 5) (Belize channel 7)
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
  • The Palestinian Authority redeploys paramilitary police in Gaza for the first time since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. (Reuters)
  • Hamas publishes a document in which it recognizes the 1967 borders. (Haaretz)
• B15A, the world's largest iceberg with 160 km length, seems to have run aground in Antarctica, threatening to cut off supply ships for a number of scientific research stations and to starve tens of thousands of penguins. (CBC)
• Conflict in Iraq:
  • 5 Danish troops, including an army intelligence officer, have been charged with mistreating Iraqi prisoners in southern Iraq last year. (BBC)
  • At least 14 people die in a car bombing at a Shi'a mosque in Iraq's capital, amid threats of a long war from a key militant. (BBC)
• In Lucerne, Switzerland, a trial opens against a nurse accused of killing 24 patients. (SwissInfo)
• The Italian government condemns the destruction of an Italian cemetery in Mogadishu, Somalia. Local militia wanted to clear the area for a base. (BBC)
• Italian police have arrested number of people connected to smuggling of illegal immigrants from Libya. (AGI) (BBC)
• Chilean judge Sergio Munoz intends to launch an international investigation for secret bank accounts of Augusto Pinochet. (Reuters) (BBC)
• In France, teachers and civil servants join the growing numbers of strikers to protest over job cuts in the public sector. (BBC) (Reuters)
• The relatives of victims of Kursk submarine disaster appeal to the European Court of Human Rights for an additional investigation into the catastrophe. (Mosnews) (St.Petersburg Times)
• France extradites Holger Pfahls, former German deputy defence minister suspected of corruption. (Deutsche Welle) (Bloomberg) (PolitInfo)