Current events

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December 13, 2001

US releases some Videos of bin Laden

December 10, 2001

Today's new topics

If updated, the list of topics should reflect topics that have recently come to the forefront of recent news events. Older topics, also essential to understanding current events, can be found below.

• Nobel Prize Award: Nobel - NOW! webcasting live from http://www.nobel.se (3:30 PM GMT)

November 29, 2001

Today's new topics

If updated, the list of topics should reflect topics that have recently come to the forefront of recent news events. Older topics, also essential to understanding current events, can be found below.

• Ethnicity: Israeli - Jew - Palestinian
• Geography:
  • Re Colin Powell's speech: Gaza - Gaza Strip - Golan Heights - Israel - Judea - Palestine - Syria - West Bank
  • Re airport security bill: Reagan National Airport
  • Re germ warfare: Iraq - North Korea
• Law: anti-terrorism legislation
• Organizations, governmental and professional: Air Transport Association - American Automobile Association - House of Lords - U.S. Department of Transportation
• People: Yasser Arafat - Caroline Dickinson - Saddam Hussein - Shimon Peres - Colin Powell - Condoleezza Rice - Nabil Shaath - Ariel Sharon
• Religion: Islam - Judaism
• Concepts:
  • Military and defense: biological weapons program - sniffer dog (better term for this?) - weapon of mass destruction - x-ray searching
  • Other: airline baggage - bounty - bounty hunter - sniffer dog - x-ray searching

Please move yesterday's new topics below, or delete them from the page (if they aren't going to continue to be important in ongoing news developments).

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Background for ongoing current events

The War in Afghanistan: Background

• Developing stories: 2001 Coalition Attack on Afghanistan - individual cases of anthrax
• Ethnicity: People of Afghanistan - Azerbaijan - Pashtun - Tajik
• Geography: Afghanistan - Baghlan, Afghanistan - Israel - Kabul - Kandahar - Kunduz, Afghanistan - New York City - Pakistan - Palestine - United States of America - Washington, D.C.
• History: September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Back history
• People: Osama Bin Laden - Tony Blair - George W. Bush - Abdul Rashid Dostum - Pervez Musharraf - Mullah Mohammed Omar - Burhanuddin Rabbani - Donald H. Rumsfeld - Abdul Sattar
• Organizations: al Qaeda - CDC - Northern Alliance - Taliban - United Nations - United Nations Security Council - U.S. Special Operations
• Concepts
  • Geographical: airport - airspace - pipeline
  • Military/guerilla/defense technology and strategy: aircraft carrier - airport security - anthrax - antibiotic resistance - baggage screening - biological warfare - biological weapon - car bomb - ciprofloxacin - domestic security - gas mask - germ warfare - aircraft hijacking - smallpox - terrorist cell - vaccine
  • Political: anti-Americanism - domestic terrorism - foreign aid - foreign aid worker - humanitarian aid - peace - risk analysis - terrorism - terrorist groups - war
  • Religious: Islamism
  • Psychological: collective trauma

U.S. Domestic Response to Terrorism: Background

• Geography: New York City - Reno, Nevada - Washington, D.C.
• People: John Ashcroft - George W. Bush - Colin Powell -
• Organizations: Air Transport Association - Central Intelligence Agency - U.S. Department of Defense - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Office of Homeland Security
• Concepts: bipartisanship - electronic surveillance - encryption - wiretap - tax cut

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Background

• Ethnicity: Israeli - Jew - Palestinian
• Geography: Gaza - Gaza Strip - Golan Heights - Israel - Judea - Palestine - Syria - West Bank
• People: Yasser Arafat - Shimon Peres - Colin Powell - Nabil Shaath - Ariel Sharon
• Religion: Islam - Judaism

• October 23 2001 Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein calls for Provisional Irish Republican Army to start disarmament after pressure from America, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
• Other: 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 - Airbus A300 - Queens, New York City - Dominican Republic
• November 3 2001 At 2230 GMT after a late warning that contained a known terrorist code word from a bomb exploded in Birmingham, England on the site of one of the Provisional Irish Republican Army explosions that killed the most people. This comes after the PIRA disarmed a portion of their weapons, David Trimble sought to regain his position as First Minster of the Northern Ireland assembly and as Tony Blair is still involved in the consequences of the "War against Terrorism". This action could open a second front in this war, if only for the United Kingdom.
• The terrorist attack: September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack - World Trade Center - Pentagon - New York City - Washington, D.C. - AA Flight 11 - UA Flight 75 - AA Flight 77 - UA Flight 93 - September 11

India and Pakistan

• India/Transnational issues
• Kashmir

Other Conflicts

• East Timor

Science and Technology

• The atmosphere of an extrasolar planet was detected

Europe

• ETA
• Anti-war protests

Business news

• recession - depression
• stock market - stock exchange - Dow Industrial Average - NASDAQ
• Cisco Systems
• United Auto Workers
• Railtrack

Celebrity news

• Jennifer Lopez - Sharon Stone - aneurysm

Sports news

• Basketball: Michael Jordan returns to the NBA, with the Washington Wizards
• Baseball:
  • Baseball/World Series: The National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the American League champion New York Yankees, four games to three, behind the pitching of co-MVPs Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.
  • Baseball/American League Championship Series - Baseball/National League Championship Series
  • Baseball/Most Valuable Player Awards: National League award given to Barry Bonds of San Francisco. American League award given to Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners.
  • Baseball/Rookie of the Year Awards: National League award given to Albert Pujols of St. Louis; American League award given to Ichiro Suzuki of Seattle.
  • Baseball Cy Young Award: National League award given to Randy Johnson of Arizona. American League award given to Roger Clemens of New York. Cy Young
• American football season is underway. Super Bowl
• Winter Olympic Games scheduled for February 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah

Holidays

• Christmas - Santa Claus

Topics removed from current events

News pages
External links to news pages that can be used to gather new topics for the above list.

• http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news - Coverage split in to science/health etc... for UK and world news
• http://www.cnn.com

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