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.
Baquba, Iraq - Forty-nine Iraqi army recruits and their civilian driver were gunned down in a bloody ambush northeast of Baghdad, officials said on Sunday, one of the deadliest attacks ever against the country's fledgling security forces. Ojiya, Japan - Thousands of weary and frightened residents of northern Japan were spending a second night in shelters, cars or in the open on Sunday after Japan's deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people. More than 1,800 were injured when the 6.8 magnitude quake and a series of powerful aftershocks struck rural Niigata, about 150 miles north of Tokyo, on Saturday, setting off landslides, wrecking houses and buckling railway tracks. Baghdad - A U.S. diplomat was killed in a mortar attack near Baghdad airport early Sunday. A U.S. embassy spokesman said Ed Seitz, a diplomatic security officer, was killed by "indirect fire" at 5 a.m. at a U.S. military headquarters on the edge of the airport. Beijing - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will urge China today to exert its influence over North Korea to resume six-party negotiations on scrapping its suspected nuclear weapons program. Powell will want to see North Korea's communist neighbour and biggest benefactor use its weight to secure a breakthrough and crown relations which he says are the best in 30 years.
