Portal:Current events/2004 March 30

March 30, 2004 (Tuesday)

A suicide bomber sets off a small explosion inside the Bolivian Congress. The bomber – a miner, protesting unpaid pensions – and the chief congressional security guard are killed; several bystanders are wounded. (BBC) (USA Today)
French President Jacques Chirac retains his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, but asks Raffarin to reform the country's government. (Washington Post) Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
New Jersey physicist Greg Olsen pays $20 million to conduct environmental research for eight days aboard the International Space Station. (Miami Herald)
Police in Uzbekistan raid a militant's hideout south of the capital, Tashkent. Fighting has caused 23 deaths in the area. (Reuters)^{[permanent dead link]}
The Philippines prevents a "Madrid-level attack" after arresting four members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group. (SFGate)
The White House allows Condoleezza Rice, the president's National Security Advisor, to publicly testify under oath on the investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks. (XINHUA) (CNN)
Eight men are arrested after a series of raids in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000. Half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was found during the raids. (Guardian)
SCO v. IBM: IBM has applied for a declaratory judgment that it does not infringe the SCO Group's copyrights. (Groklaw) (ZDNET)