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Stories from 2004-03-28

France's Socialists Beat Ruling Coalition in Regional Elections

Simon Packard | Bloomberg News | March 28, 2004

"The scale of the ruling coalition's losses makes it likely President Jacques Chirac will next week reshuffle Raffarin's two-year-old government, reducing the number of ministers and bringing more professional politicians into the cabinet, said academics such as Laurent Dubois of the Paris Institut d'Etudes Politiques." [more]

Turkish Ruling Party Bolsters Strength in Municipal Polls

Amberin Zaman | Voice of America | March 28, 2004

"In a further bid to quell such concerns, Mr. Erdogan did not field any female candidates, who wear the Islamic style headscarf in Sunday's polls. And in a gesture to non-Muslim Turks, the AKP ran three ethnic Armenians for smaller municipal districts in Istanbul." [more]

Undercover Police Officers Spied on Anti-War Activists

STAFF | Associated Press | March 28, 2004

Undercover city officers were sent to monitor anti-war meetings and rallies when opposition to the war in Iraq began to mount last year, the police chief confirms. [more]

‘LRA Different From Al Qaeda’

Badru D. Mulumba | Monitor | March 28, 2004

'US ambassador to Uganda, Mr Jimmy Kolker, has said there are no parallels between LRA and Al Qaeda terrorist organisations. He was responding to a question in an interview with Irin that donors are urging the government to talk to Kony, yet America can’t do the same with Al Qaeda because that would amount to ‘appeasing terrorists’." [more]

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