The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
United Nations - George W. Bush predicted that the United Nations Security Council would vote unanimously on Tuesday for a resolution transferring sovereignty in Iraq to a national government on June 30. The U.S. remarks came after France and Germany said on Tuesday they would vote with the United States on the revised resolution. The resolution affirms the June 30 transfer of power to the recently announced interim government, and sets December 2005 as the end of the international troop mandate in Iraq. Milan - Police in Italy and Belgium arrested three men in connection with the Madrid bombings that killed 191 people in March, officials in Spain said Tuesday. Of the two men arrested in Italy, one was Rabei Osman Ahmed, 33, who had been a suspect in the bombings for months, the Spanish Interior Ministry said. He is thought to have played an active role in planning the Milan train attacks Ten bombs exploded on four crowded commuter trains during the morning rush hour on March 11. The blasts killed 191 people and wounded about 2,000. Harare Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe will nationalize all farmland and abolish private land ownership, the country's land reforms minister said on Tuesday. John Nkomo said all land will become the property of the state and property deeds will be replaced with state-issued 99-year leases.
