Portal:Current events/2004 August 1

August 1, 2004 (Sunday)

Lawyers reveal that African American workers are to sue Eastman Kodak Co., charging that the firm paid them less and promoted them less often than white colleagues. (Reuters) Archived 2004-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
The U.S. raises the security alert level to high for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., the New York Stock Exchange and companies in the New York City area on Sunday after intelligence signals a possible al Qaeda attack. (Reuters) Archived 2004-08-12 at archive.today
Kuwait bans Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 because it deems the movie insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family and critical of America's invasion of Iraq. (AP)
Four car bombs explode just minutes apart outside neighboring four churches in central Baghdad and one car bomb explodes at a church in Mosul during Sunday evening services, killing 5 and injuring at least 46 people, witnesses say. The attacks appeared to be the first targeting churches during the 15-months of violent insurgency. (AP) CNN
Chinese authorities say they have shut down nearly 700 websites and arrested 224 people in a new campaign against internet pornography. (BBC)
The French Ambassador to Chad, Jean Pierre Bercot, says that France will deploy 200 soldiers to help secure Chad's eastern border with Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region. The troops will also bring humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in Chad. (BBC)
World Trade Organization members agree on a revised draft deal that aims to revive stalled talks on freeing up trade between rich and poor nations. Key WTO members accept proposals to cut the subsidies wealthy countries give their farmers for exports. International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) denounced the results as a sell-out of poor countries and the environment. (BBC) (OneWorld.net)
Over 311 people are killed and 276 injured in a fire which swept a market in Asunción, Paraguay. (AP)^{[dead link]} (CNN)^{[dead link]}