Portal:Current events/2003 November 10

November 10, 2003 (2003-11-10) (Monday)

• The World Trade Organization declares United States tariffs on steel imports inconsistent with free trade, opening the way for the European Union to impose punitive tariffs on goods of US origin.
• War on Terrorism: The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals by 16 people detained at Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court will consider whether alleged illegal combatants held by the United States since the War in Afghanistan can use American courts to challenge their detainment.
• In India, heavy rain boosts economic growth forecasts for the Indian economy.
• DiC Kids Network Premiere of Sabrina's Secret Life
• Sequels: Sabrina: The Animated Series (1999-2000) and Sabrina: Friends Forever (2002)
• In the United Kingdom, Michael Howard, new leader of the Conservative Party, announces his first Shadow Cabinet; membership is trimmed down to 12 from 26.
• Alliance Capital Management, owned by AXA, fires two senior executives as a result of enquiries into mutual fund abuses.
• Occupation of Iraq:
  • An array of senior figures in the United States criticize the case the Bush administration used to go to war with Iraq; they state that there never was a clear and present danger.
  • Paul Bremer says that attacks on coalition forces in Iraq will get worse unless intelligence improves; he says several hundred terrorists have entered Iraq from neighbouring countries.
• Security officials in Saudi Arabia order 4600 extra troops into Mecca to provide increased security during Ramadan, saying that additional attacks could occur at any moment.
• Questions surround Yasser Arafat after further allegations about money moved out of the West Bank to secret bank accounts.
• Researchers report that some patients who recovered from SARS have developed bone disease, possibly as a result of drugs used to fight the infection.
• Toronto municipal election, 2003: David Miller is elected mayor of Toronto.
• In the United Kingdom, the Prince of Wales returns from a foreign trip to confront enormous media interest in rumours of homosexual acts involving him and a former aide arising from allegations made by another former royal servant, George Smith. Charles is considering legal action, but his staff have ruled out the possibility of a televised statement or interview.
• Survivors of the massacre of Srebrenica, the worst European atrocity since World War II, are to sue the United Nations and the Netherlands for almost USD $850 million for failing to protect the Muslim enclave.
• Fine arts: A striking piece of art, the lifelike sculpture of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler kneels in an empty room in a Munich art museum, Germany (where the Nazi past has made it taboo to display Hitler in any form except in documentary films). The exhibition is at the neo-classical museum, which the Nazi leader ordered built in 1937.

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