Portal:Current events/2003 August 1

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• Mozdok truck bombing: A truck bomb destroys a military hospital in Mozdok in Southern Russia, near Chechnya, killing 52 and wounding 82. The Russian government blames the attack on Chechen separatists. A media spokesman for rebel political leader, Aslan Maskhadov, denied any connection with the incident.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13500-2003Aug1.html ]{{dead link|date=September 2015}}
• North Korea agrees to multilateral talks in its nuclear standoff with Japan, South Korea, Russia, The United States, and the People's Republic of China.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/104953.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050209231417/http://www.iht.com/articles/104953.html |archive-date=2005-02-09 |url-status=dead }}
• The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health plans to propose an amendment to Finnish tobacco legislation which would make retail sales of tobacco products subject to a license.{{cite web|url=http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20030801IE4 |title=Finland |publisher=Helsinki-hs.net |date= |accessdate=2015-09-26}}

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