Portal:Current events/2004 November 14
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November 14, 2004 (Sunday)
- Iran has agreed to curb most of its uranium enrichment with three EU countries, France, Germany and the UK. (BBC) (EUObserver.com)
- The Belgian political party Vlaams Blok changes its name to Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) after being banned for being racist. (AFP)
- The Basque separatist party Batasuna calls for talks with a view to ending armed conflict in Spain. (BBC)
- Fierce storms cause three shipwrecks off Algiers. At least one sailor has been killed and 18 are missing. (BBC)
- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni declares a week-long truce with the Lord's Resistance Army starting Monday. (BBC)
- The BBC based on a water test of one well claims thousands in India still face a risk of poisoning after the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster 20 years ago that killed at least 4000 people. (BBC)
- Kidnappers release two female relatives of Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. (Reuters) Archived 2004-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
- UK shadow arts minister Boris Johnson is sacked by Michael Howard following allegations about his private life. (BBC)
- Two bodyguards of former Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) are killed as they exchange fire with masked Gunmen as Abbas pays a visit to a mourning tent for Yasser Arafat in Gaza City. (Haaretz)(BBC)
- Japan's trade minister Shoichi Nakagawa says he believes that a Chinese submarine, which Tokyo says intruded into Japanese waters last week, is linked to gas exploration by China in a remote island area claimed by both countries. (VOA)
- Elections to choose the successor to Yasser Arafat are to be held on 9 January 2005, Palestine Authority interim President Rawhi Fattuh announced today. (BBC)
- The animated/live action dramedy Tom Goes to the Mayor airs for the first time on Adult Swim in America.
- Researchers claim to have found a site that may be a candidate for the lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean, 80 kilometers southeast of Cyprus. The Cypriot government disputes the claim, saying more evidence is needed. (CNN)