Portal:Current events/2003 October 13
- 2003 occupation of Iraq: New draft resolution being circulated at the United Nations aims at getting international aid. The resolution sets a deadline for initial steps, if only for a transitional step, toward restoring Iraqi sovereignty, giving the Iraqi Governing Council until December 15 to develop a timetable for writing a constitution and holding elections. The Bush administration proposes that the United Nations recognize the Iraqi Governing Council as a unit that "will embody the sovereignty" of Iraq until the country returns to self-rule.[1][2]
- homeless, UN agency finds. The Israeli demolition of refugee shelters in Rafah camp on the southern Gaza Strip last week has left 1,240 people homeless, United Nations relief workers state.[3]
- The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, have begun talks in Downing Street on a possible restoration of devolved government in Northern Ireland.[4]
- 2003 occupation of Iraq: Three more US soldiers have been killed in separate incidents.[5]
- The open-access scientific journal, PLoS Biology and its website is immediately overwhelmed by traffic.[6]
- ^ [1] Archived February 5, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Seeking Support at U.N., Bush Offers Concession on Iraq - NYTimes.com
- ^ "United Nations News Centre". UN News Service Section. 13 October 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ [2] [dead link]
- ^ "Three U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq". Fox News. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Traffic overwhelms new online science journal". CNET. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 December 2015.