At the beginning of this month Iranian government officials in Iran warned that fatalities resulting from the Bam earthquake could reach 50,000. The quake measured in at 6.6 on the Richter scale. If these estimates are accurate then Bam has been the site of the highest earthquake spawned death toll since the Chinese city of Tang-shan lost an estimated 242,419 of its population in 1976. It amounts to approximately 25% of the combined population of the Iranian city and its surrounding towns and villages. While the country's president has sought to pitch the anticipated death rate considerably lower, aid workers were not optimistic.
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Published January 12, 2004
A Derry man described today how a bullet ripped through his
coat as he ran in panic from British Army fire on Bloody
Sunday.
Published January 12, 2004
Burnside and Smyth return to UUP fold
Two Ulster Unionist Party members of parliament who resigned
the party whip last summer in protest at the party's stance on
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement have resumed the whip, it has
been announced.
Published January 12, 2004
Family in U.S. case get death threat
The McAllister family, currently fighting a deportation battle
to stay in the U.S., have received a threat allegedly from the
Red Hand Commandos, the loyalist organization which in October
1988 carried out a gun attack on their home on the Lower
Ormeau Road in South Belfast. The attack forced them to flee
the country and come to North America.
Published January 12, 2004
FINE GAEL SPAT AS ELECTIONS LOOM
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has rebuffed a party colleague for
suggesting the party could enter a coalition government
alongside Sinn Féin.
Published January 12, 2004
INLA condemned for attack on boy
The INLA has been criticised for a punishment attack on a
14-year-old boy in north Belfast on Friday night.
Published January 12, 2004
Rejectionism should be overcome - SF
If the Good Friday Agreement is not defended the British and
Irish governments must move on over the heads of
anti-agreement parties, Sinn Féin said at the weekend.
Published January 12, 2004
Last week's resignation by Jeffrey Donaldson from the UUP is not at all surprising. What was a surprise is that it took him so long. Citing the abandonment of principle by the UUP as the main reason for falling on his sword, Donaldson at once began the face-saving spin that would have have been at least a lot harder, if not impossible after his certain forthcoming expulsion at the start of 2004.
Published January 9, 2004
Colombia 3 - Judge for Yourself
The following is a summary of the report `Colombia 3 - Judge
for Yourself' written by international human rights observers
following the trial of the Colombia 3.
Published January 9, 2004
Government influence seen in constituency changes
Smaller parties and independents have expressed dismay at the
report of the independent Constituency Commission, which has
made proposals for changes to constituencies across the 26
Counties.
Published January 9, 2004
The PSNI police have been accused of racism amid a loyalist
pogrom against ethnic minorities in south Belfast.
Published January 9, 2004
Gardaí accused of perjury and torture
A retired Circuit Court judge has alleged that members of
Garda Siochana had lied in his court, provoking a new furore
over policing in the 26 Counties.
Published January 9, 2004
Pressure on PSNI over informer allegations
There have been calls on PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde to
comment on the disappearance of Armagh man Gareth O'Connor
after it was alleged that O'Connor was a police informer who
had set up four other men for arrest.
Published January 9, 2004
Review of GFA to begin January 29th
The Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has confirmed the review of the Good Friday Agreement will start on January 29th.
Published January 9, 2004
The first working sessions of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
review are being chaired by British Direct Ruler Paul Murphy
at Stormont.
Published January 9, 2004
The following comments were made by Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator
Martin McGuinness at a party meeting in Belfast.
Published January 9, 2004
The Nationalists of Northern Ireland
The Nationalists of Northern Ireland 1918-1973.
By Enda Staunton.
Columba Press. Dublin. Price #12.99.
Published January 9, 2004
Judge Peter Cory has suggested he may defy the British
government by making public his reports into cases of
collusion in murder by the British Crown forces.
Published January 9, 2004
John Hume was Jack Lynch's agent - RUC
A secret document compiled by RUC Special Branch claimed that former SDLP leader John Hume and three colleagues worked as agents of the Dublin government at the time of Bloody Sunday.
Published January 9, 2004
A former British soldier with the UDR regiment jailed for
murder lost an appeal against his conviction in a Belfast
Court today.
Published January 9, 2004
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