Portal:Current events/2003 November 25
November 25, 2003 (Tuesday)
- Annualized Q3 growth rate in the US gross domestic product exceeds 8%, the highest rate of growth since the Reagan administration.[1]
- In a speech to lawyers in London, one of the United Kingdom's most senior Law Lords, Lord Steyn, condemns the detentions at Guantanamo Bay as a monstrous failure of justice.[2][3][4] Australia reaches a deal concerning two men detained at Guantanamo Bay.[3]
- Occupation of Iraq: At least two rockets are reported fired near the US compound in central Baghdad.[5]
- Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, is not invited to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference to be held in Nigeria.[6]
- UNAids and the World Health Organization report record numbers of new AIDS cases.[7]
- Canadian National Railway buys British Columbia Railway from the British Columbia provincial government.[8]
- ^ http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=71000001&refer=home&sid=aXuXEm5y10Uo
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-12-09. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b "BBC NEWS - Asia-Pacific - Guantanamo deal for Australia duo". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ http://www.hri.ca/partners/G78/bboard/creery.shtml
- ^ https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=5BGQ4WT5KXZIWCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=3891326[permanent dead link]
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Africa - Commonwealth summit shuns Mugabe". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Health - Global HIV rates at record high". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ http://www.cn.ca/news/newsreleases/2003/en_News20031125.shtml