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December 15, 2003

Wesley Clark concludes his first day of closed-door testimony against Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia . {Link without Title}

US Secretary of State Colin Powell successfully undergoes two hours of Prostate Cancer surgery at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. {Link without Title}

Capture Of Saddam Hussein :

--- US President George W. Bush promises a "fair trial" for Saddam, refusing demands to hand him over to an international court. {Link without Title}

--- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says, about Saddam, "... as secretary-general ... I am not going to now turn around and support a Death Penalty ". {Link without Title}

The results of parliamentary elections in the self-proclaimed parties won a narrow victory over the ruling nationalist coalition, with the opposition Republican Turkish Party becoming the largest party. However, the republic's complicated electoral system means that the two sides will each have 25 seats in the 50-seat assembly. {Link without Title}

Safeway , a British Grocery Store chain, is the subject of a £3bn ($5.2bn USD) takeover bid from rival supermarket chain Morrisons . {Link without Title}

announces the suspension of its disarmament campaign for a month. {Link without Title}