Portal:Current events/2002 December 17

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• Congo's government, rebels and opposition parties signed a peace accord to end four years of civil war and set up a transitional government to lead Africa's third-largest nation to its first democratic elections since independence in 1960.
• The Bush administration announced it will begin deploying a limited system to defend the United States against ballistic missiles by 2004.
• ElcomSoft is found not guilty on four counts of DMCA violations, in the first important test case involving the controversial law.

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