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Current events of
March 5, 2005
(
2005-03-05
)
(Saturday)
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President
Bashar al-Assad
of
Syria
announces that Syria will withdraw all 14,000 troops in
Lebanon
to the Bekaa Valley area, on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
(Reuters)
Scientists
flock to an area about 300 miles (480 km) off the coast of
U.S. state
of
Washington
to study what appears to be an ongoing undersea
volcanic
eruption. Accompanying
earthquakes
measuring up to
magnitude
4.0 have numbered thousands per day.
(Seattle Times)
The
South African
film director
Zola Maseko
wins the top prize at the 2005
FESPACO
African film festival for his film
Drum
.
(FESPACO site)
(BBC)
The
Pakistani
government is appealing to the
Supreme Court of Pakistan
after the
Lahore High Court
overturned the death sentences of five of the six men convicted for the alleged
gang rape
of
Mukhtaran Bibi
in a tribal feud.
Daily Times, Pakistan
In
Niger
, government cancels special ceremony that would have
released
about 7000
slaves
because no slaves appeared. Local
human rights
group
Timidra
blames government threats against tribal leaders.
(News24)
(CNN)
(Telegraph)
(BBC)
Chin Peng
, leader of
communist
rebels during
Malayan Emergency
, asks
Malaysian
court to allow him to return.
(Malaysian Star)
(New Straits Times)
(Reuters India)
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