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*The controversial yet very popular ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' [[video game]] series from [[Rockstar Games]] wins five awards at the [[BAFTA]] Games Awards. [http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=3814&Page=1&pagePos=2] There is to be a further sequel, "''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''". [http://www.thestreet.com/tech/ronnaabramson/10146209.html]
*The controversial yet very popular ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' [[video game]] series from [[Rockstar Games]] wins five awards at the [[BAFTA]] Games Awards. [http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=3814&Page=1&pagePos=2] There is to be a further sequel, "''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''". [http://www.thestreet.com/tech/ronnaabramson/10146209.html]
*Several hundred [[United States]], [[French]] and [[Canadian]] troops are deployed to [[Haiti]]. [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/02/1078117390172.html]
*Several hundred [[United States]], [[French]] and [[Canadian]] troops are deployed to [[Haiti]]. [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/02/1078117390172.html]

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==[[February 29]], [[2004]]==
* [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] resigns as president of [[Haiti]] and flees the country for the [[Central African Republic]]. The chief justice of the Haitian supreme court, [[Boniface Alexandre]], is sworn in as interim president. [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/29/1077989442372.html] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4461959] [http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040228.whaiti0228_2/BNStory/International/]
* [[U.S.-led occupation of Iraq|Occupation of Iraq]]
** [[Iraq]]'s leaders meet deadline for drafting interim [[constitution]]. [http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/29/sprj.nirq.main/index.html]
** [[Saddam Hussein]]'s government systematically extorted [[billion]]s of [[dollar]]s in [[illegal]] payments from companies doing business with [[Iraq]]. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001867868_oilforfood29.html]
** [[Kurdistan]] activists bring petition to the authorities in [[Baghdad]] asking for a [[referendum]] on whether [[Kurd]]s will stay within a united [[Iraq]] or to form an independent Kurdistan. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3492630.stm]
*[[76th Academy Awards]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (movie)| The Return of the King]]'' wins [[Academy Award for Best Picture|picture]] and [[Academy Award for Directing|director]] awards and nine others for a total of 11 [[Academy Award]]s, a tie for the most ever won by a single film. Acting honors were as follows: [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]: [[Sean Penn]] for ''[[Mystic River]]'', [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]: [[Charlize Theron]] for ''[[Monster (movie)|Monster]]'', [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]: [[Tim Robbins]] for ''[[Mystic River]]'', [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]: [[Renee Zellweger]] for ''[[Cold Mountain]]''. [http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-oscarwinners-list,0,6833602.story?coll=ny-movies-bigpix] [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/oscar/chart/?view=allcategories&yr=2003&p=.htm] [http://www.imdb.com/]

==[[February 28]], [[2004]]==
* [[2004 in film]]: The [[2004 Golden Raspberries]] are handed out in commemoration of the low points struck last year by the [[motion picture]] industry. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=502&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20040228/ap_on_en_mo/film_razzies] [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/28/1077677019435.html]

==[[February 27]], [[2004]]==
* [[Same-sex marriage in the United States]]: The [[California Supreme Court]] refuses a petition by [[California]] [[Attorney General]] [[Bill Lockyer]] asking for an immediate ruling on the constitutionality of [[same-sex marriage]] laws and a [[cease and desist]] order against [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco's]] granting of [[marriage license]]s to same-sex couples. [http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/02/022704calCourt.htm]
*In an angry public exchange, [[Yasser Arafat]] calls [[Fatah]] official [[Nasser Yousef]] a "traitor" and hurls a microphone at him. [http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=271360&lang=e&dir=news] [http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=3719]
*[[International Space Station]] crew [[Michael Foale]] and [[Alexandr Kaleri]] perform the first ever [[EVA|spacewalk]] involving the station's entire crew; the spacewalk is cut short by a malfunction in Kaleri's [[spacesuit]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3486794.stm] [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1055200.htm]
*[[Shoko Asahara]], the leader of a [[Japan]]ese cult that gassed the [[Tokyo]] subway in 1995, is [[death penalty|sentenced to death]] by [[hanging]].[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3491488.stm]
*The [[United States|U.S.]] [[U.S. Department of Justice|Justice Department]] says it will move to block [[Oracle Corporation]]'s hostile $9.4 billion takeover bid for larger rival [[PeopleSoft]], saying a merger of the two largest [[accounting]] and [[human resources]] [[software]] companies in the U.S. would hurt competition. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/27/ORACLE.TMP&type=tech][http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1077837010994&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851]
* [[Iran]]ian state radio reports [[Osama bin Laden]] captured. [[United States]] officials discount the reports. [http://www.orf.at/index.html?url=http%3A//www.orf.at/ticker/139600.html][http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=23003&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs][http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V7725.AP-Bin-Laden.html]

==[[February 26]], [[2004]]==
* The [[United States]] lifts a ban on travel to [[Libya]], ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4447998]
* Expressions by [[Disney]] shareholders of a lack of confidence in its management continue. Five more [[state pension fund]]s announced that they will not vote for the re-election of chairman (and chief executive) [[Michael Eisner]] at next week's meeting. These pension funds &ndash; New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia &ndash; are following the lead of California &ndash; CalPERS made its announcement to the same effect Wednesday. [http://www.thestreet.com/p/_tscs/rmoney/jamesjcramer/10145911.html]
* Russian President Vladimir Putin opens the 2,165 km (1,345 mile) [[Chita]]-to-[[Khabarovsk]] [[Amur Highway]] connecting the [[Russia]]n Far East alongside the [[Pacific ocean|Pacific]] to the rest of the country. Construction of the highway was begun in 1978. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3793188,00.html] [http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~1985699,00.html]
* [[Switzerland|Swiss]] police are investigating a man in the killing of an [[air traffic control]]ler. The suspect apparently lost his family in a midair collision in [[2002]]; the murder victim was on duty at the time of the crash. [http://www.itv.com/news/225555.html]
* [[Microsoft]]'s [[Japan]] headquarters are raided on suspicion of violating anti-monopoly laws by the fair trade watchdog. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3488186.stm] [http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040226p2a00m0dm004000c.html]
*[[Israel]] raids four [[bank]]s in the [[West Bank]] seizing currency amounting to over 6 million dollars from accounts which it alleged had been used to fund [[terrorism]]. Israel claims it will use the funds for humanitarian projects in Palestinian areas. The [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]] criticized the [[Israel]]i raid, and [[Palestinian]] Arabs condemned it utterly. [http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=F3713E59-ED0B-4EFB-9EFEF60D085BF0B0], [http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=1805&a=180907]
* [[Clare Short]], former [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Cabinet]] Minister, alleges on the [[BBC]] ''[[The Today programme|Today]]'' radio programme that [[Secret Intelligence Service|British spies]] regularly intercept [[UN]] communications, including those of [[Kofi Annan]], its [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|Secretary-General]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3488548.stm] [http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2578236] The claim comes the day after [[Katharine Gun]], formerly an employee of British spy agency [[GCHQ]], had a charge of breaching the [[Official Secrets Act]] dropped after prosecutors offered no evidence, apparently on the advice of the [[United Kingdom Attorney General|Attorney-General]]. Gun had admitted leaking American plans to bug UN delegates to a newspaper. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3485072.stm]
* [[Same-sex marriage in the United States]]:
**The mayor of [[New Paltz (village), New York|New Paltz]], a village in [[New York]] State, announces that the town will start performing civil marriages for same-sex couples. It will not attempt to issue marriage certificates, but married couples in New York State have six months from the date of their wedding to seek a certificate. [http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/02/022604nyWed.htm]
**[[Rosie O'Donnell]] marries her partner Kelli Carpenter at [[San Francisco]] City Hall. [http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.asp?id=FBE5BCB2-5EF7-4287-80D5-7A1478A7D271]

==[[February 25]], [[2004]]==
* [[Libya]]'s Foreign Minister, [[Abdulrahman Shalgam]], issues a statement reaffirming its acceptance of culpability for the [[1988]] [[bomb]]ing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] over [[Lockerbie]], after the Prime Minister [[Shukri Ghanem]], in an interview for the [[BBC]], claimed Libya had "bought peace" with the $2.7bn compensation payments, but had not accepted guilt. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3487562.stm] [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8042204.htm]
*A [[wolverine]], the [[state animal]] of [[Michigan]], has been spotted in that state for the first time in 200 years. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040225/ap_on_re_us/wolverine_sighting_2]
*The California Public Employees' Retirement System, CalPERS, a major shareholder in [[The Walt Disney Company]], indicated that it will withhold its votes from Disney chief executive [[Michael Eisner]] at next week's shareholders' meeting, a new sign of a growing rebellion against Eisner's leadership, [http://www.thestreet.com/tech/georgemannes/10145572.html]
*The controversial [[film]], ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' opens in [[movie theater|theaters]] in the [[United States]]. [[Judaism|Jewish]] leaders fear the film will stoke [[antisemitism]], while some [[Christian]]s laud the realistic depiction of the last 12 hours of [[Jesus Christ]]'s life. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2863-2004Feb24.html] A woman in [[Wichita, Kansas]] collapses and dies of a massive heart attack while viewing the harrowing Crucifixion scene. [http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/653662.html]
*[[Pakistan]]i leaders pressure [[Muslim]] militants in [[Kashmir]] to declare a ceasefire with [[India]]. Meanwhile, [[Prime Minister of India|Indian Prime Minister]] [[Atal Behari Vajpayee]] tries to gain Muslim votes for his [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] with the prospect of peace with Pakistan. [http://in.news.yahoo.com/040225/137/2bnd1.html][http://in.news.yahoo.com/040225/137/2bo5l.html]
*In the northern [[Uganda]] city of Lira, protests and riots cause at least nine deaths after the Ugandan army announces it killed 21 members of the [[Lord's Resistance Army]], a rebel group, in retaliation for an attack on a refugee camp at Barlonyo. [http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/25/uganda.massacre.rebels.ap/index.html]
*King [[Norodom Sihanouk]] of [[Cambodia]], who recently made a statement in support of [[same-sex marriage]], responded to an "insulting" e-mail by announcing he is not [[gay]]. The king is 81 years old and has 14 children. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/25/wcam25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/25/ixworld.html]
*[[Guantanamo Bay]]: [[The Pentagon]] announces that the first charges are to be filed against two of the six hundred detainees of the detention camp, but [[human rights]] groups have had their request to observe the [[military tribunal]]s turned down. The defendants are named as [[Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul]] and [[Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi]], both alleged to be [[Al-Qaeda]] members and charged with "conspiracy to commit [[war crime]]s". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3518653.stm] The Pentagon also confirms that even if cleared by the tribunals, the defendants may still not be released. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3487958.stm]


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