August 1, 2003 (Friday)
- Mozdok truck bombing: A truck bomb destroys a military hospital in Mozdok in Southern Russia, near Chechnya, killing 52 and wounding 82. The Russian government blames the attack on Chechen separatists. A media spokesman for rebel political leader, Aslan Maskhadov, denied any connection with the incident.[1]
- North Korea agrees to multilateral talks in its nuclear standoff with Japan, South Korea, Russia, The United States, and the People's Republic of China.[2]
- The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health plans to propose an amendment to Finnish tobacco legislation which would make retail sales of tobacco products subject to a license.[3]
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