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Events relating to europe
The UN sends in KFOR (Kosovo Force) to supervise post-war recovery in Kosovo
Boris Yeltsin announces his completely unexpected resignation on New Year's Eve and effectively hands power to Vladimir Putin as acting president
Chromosome 22 becomes the first human genome to be fully sequenced, at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England
The new Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended because of IRA failure to decommission arms
The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, judges Augusto Pinochet mentally incapable to stand trial and returns him to Chile
Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election in Russia on the first round
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
The republic of Ireland is the fastest growing economy in the EU, with a GDP growth of more than 10%
A Concorde supersonic airliner crashes after take-off from Paris, killing all 109 on board
In the election for president of Yugoslavia, the incumbent Slobodan Milosevic is defeated by Vojislav Kostunica
Angry crowds drive Slobodan Milosevic from power after he denies defeat in the Serbian election
The Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize euthanasia, allowing doctors to end the life of a patient suffering 'unbearably' from a terminal condition
The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan, Al-Megrahi, of responsibility for the Pan-Am Lockerbie bomb
Sylvio Berlusconi returns as Italy's prime minister with the electoral success of his right-wing House of Liberties coalition
Tony Blair leads Britain's Labour party in a second successive election victory, with a majority only marginally reduced from 179 to 167
The former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is handed over to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague
UK terrorist Richard Reid tries to bring down a Paris-Miami flight but fails to light the exposive in his shoe
Florence plays host to the first European Social Forum, an annual conference (now biennial) bringing together campaigning groups to share ideas and form collaborations
The trial of Slobodan Milosevic begins at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague
Controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated outside a a radio station in Hilversum
Chechen terrorists take hostage the entire audience of a Moscow theatre in an atrocity resulting in the death of more than 150 people
The two remaining regions of the unravelled Yugoslavia unite as a new nation, Serbia and Montenegro
Zoran Dindić, the prime minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade
UK scientist David Kelly commits suicide, apparently for reasons linked with the Iraq War
Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the following day
