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.
Bogota, Colombia - Colombia's main rebel group asked followers to mount an assassination attempt against President Bush during his visit to Colombia last week, Defense Minister Jorge Uribe said. There was no evidence Saturday that rebels even tried to organize such an attack. Uribe told reporters late Friday that informants said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, told followers to attack Bush during his four-hour visit in the seaside city of Cartagena last Monday, where he met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. There was no indication Bush's life was ever in danger. Vienna - Iran formally withdrew its demand to exempt sensitive research from a freeze of key parts of its nuclear program ? a last-minute bid to remove the threat of U.N. economic sanctions, Western diplomats said Sunday. Iran's request to be permitted to operate 20 centrifuges, which enrich uranium for use as fuel in power plants or weapons, nearly wrecked an agreement it reached with the European Union to halt all work linked to making atomic fuel. Tongchuan, China - At least 25 miners were killed and some 140 were trapped when a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northern China, in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world's biggest coal producer in recent years.
