Week of July 1, 2006
In defiance - North Korea test-fires at least six missiles into the sea of Japan
including a long range Taepodong 2.The White House issued a statement
strongly condemning the launches and “North Korea’s unwillingness to heed calls
for restraint from the international community.”
Conservative Felipe Calderon is officially declared the winner of Mexico’s
presidential election - beating leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by less than
a percentage point.
Not a good week for gay marriages - Georgia’s Supreme Court upholds an
amendment banning gay marriage unions and new York’s Supreme Court rules
that its state constitution did not grant same sex couples the right to we.
U.S. auto sales drop sharply in June - 10.5%.
Sen.
Joe Lieberman
facing odds
with his fellow Democrats because
his position for support of the Iraqi
war, decides to hedge his bets on his
political future and ma run as an
independent in the November
general election if he loses his party’s
August primary.
Osama bin Laden endorsed the new
leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq in an
Internet posting and warned Iraqi
Shiites against collaborating with the
United States in fighting Sunni
insurgents.
Technology -
AOL may give away even more of its services including its vaunted AOL.com e-
mail accounts now limited to paying subscribers, to boost ad revenue and offset
declines in subscriptions.
Amazon says it had begun offering its own toys and baby items following a
judge’s ruling that ended its retail partnership with Toys r Us. In march, a New
Jersey Superior Court judge found that Amazon.com breached a deal to give
Toys R Us exclusive rights to supply some toy products on Amazon.com. The
ruling allowed the companies to sever their online partnership.
