Portal:Current events/2002 December 27
December 27, 2002 (Friday)
- Chechen rebels detonate two car bombs at the Grozny headquarters of Chechnya's Russian-backed government in an apparent suicide attack, killing more than 80 people.[1]
- North Korea expels UN weapons inspectors, and announces plans to reactivate a dormant nuclear fuel processing laboratory.[2]
- Clonaid, the medical arm of a cult called Raëlism, who believe that aliens introduced human life on Earth, claims to have successfully cloned a human being. They claim that aliens taught them how to perform cloning, even though the company has no record of having successfully cloned any previous animal. A spokesperson said an independent agency would prove that the baby, named Eve, is in fact an exact copy of her mother.[3]
- Presidential elections in Kenya between Uhuru Kenyatta, candidate for ruling party KANU, and Mwai Kibaki, candidate for opposition party NARC. Early reports say the latter wins a landslide victory.
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Europe - Chechnya suicide bombs kill 46". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
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