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Portal:Current events/2003 November 20

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  • The FTAA negotiations in Miami end one day early; a menu approach is adopted to assure the future of the agreement, allowing individual countries to opt out of controversial or unacceptable provisions. Between 10,000 and 25,000 protestors demonstrate outside the conference center; the police use rubber bullets, and over 100 people are arrested.{{Cite web |url=http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/73394/1/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051203165028/http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/73394/1/ |archive-date=2005-12-03 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/798C19F0-648C-479E-9400-0963A2234919.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828082650/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/798C19F0-648C-479E-9400-0963A2234919.htm |archive-date=2006-08-28 |url-status=dead }}
  • Terrorist attacks: Bombs hit Istanbul, Turkey. At least 25 are killed and hundreds injured in two car-bomb blasts that devastate the Turkish headquarters of HSBC and the British consulate. British Consul-General Roger Short is among the dead. The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (IBDA-C), a radical Islamist group, claims responsibility.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3222608.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Europe - Istanbul rocked by double bombing|publisher=|accessdate=22 December 2015}}
  • Between 110,000 (according to the police) and 300,000 (according to the organization) people demonstrate in and around Trafalgar Square in London against the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's state visit.{{cite web|url=http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/11/281262.html|title=Stop Bu$h - National Demonstration - Thursday 20th|publisher=|accessdate=22 December 2015}}
  • The People's Republic of China says it may retaliate against restrictions the US is to impose on imports of Chinese textile products.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3222580.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Business - China retaliates to US import cap|publisher=|accessdate=22 December 2015}}
  • Pop musician Michael Jackson turns himself in to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office and is officially charged with child molestation.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sbsheriff.org/wn/spr/11200301.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928043450/http://www.sbsheriff.org/wn/spr/11200301.html |archive-date=2007-09-28 |url-status=dead }}

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