September 30, 2005
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[edit] 30 September 2005 (Friday)
- United Nation World Food Programme warns that a sharp increase in malnutrition rates and rapidly rising maize prices in Malawi could push the number of vulnerable people in need of food aid up to five million. (Reuters)
- U.S. Senator Harry Reid, and other Democrats, criticize talk show host William Bennett for saying: "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." (WLTX)
- Grand opening of the first ever independent standing Khaneghah (Sufi Center) in Texas. Located in the City of Frisco (suburb of Dallas), the center is from the Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi order.
- The new United Nations coordinator for human and avian influenza warns that 5-150 million people could die in a flu epidemic. Humans have no natural immunity to the virus. (M&C News) (BBC)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
- An unarmed Palestinian boy, 13 years old, is shot dead by Israel Defense Forces troops. Israel declares its intention to hold an inquiry into the event. (BBC)
- Two members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade are shot dead in an Israeli raid into the Balata refugee camp, in Nablus, on the West Bank. (BBC)
- Conflict in Iraq: 10 people die following a car bomb in Hillah, Iraq. (BBC)
- An Osaka High Court judge rules that the visit by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the Yasukuni Shrine violates the constitution's separation of church and state. The visit by a Japanese head of government to the war shrine is a sensitive issue with China and South Korea. (Reuters)
- United States negotiators in Geneva are caught off guard by European demands for a change from U.S. Commerce Department control to international regulation of the Internet. (International Herald Tribune) (openDemocracy)
- New York Times journalist Judith Miller testifies before a federal grand jury and identifies Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, as her confidential source for a non-published story about the unmasking of a CIA agent in 2003. (CNN)
