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WHAT HAPPENED ON 11th December 2000?
10th December 2000
ABRUPT HALT TO FLORIDA HAND RECOUNTS
Recounts of ballots in at least two key Florida counties stopped abruptly after the US Supreme Court approved a request by Republican lawyers. Judges were half-way through counting some 9 000 ballots from Miami-Dade County when the operation was shut down after hurried consultations. Electoral officials also stopped work in Hillsborough County. Court administrators locked the doors to safeguard the ballots.
11th December 2000
SUPREME COURT BEGINS HISTORIC HEARING
The nine judges of the US Supreme Court have begun a hearing that could decide the country's next president. The court has to say whether disputed votes in Florida should be recounted. Yesterday the two sides submitted written arguments which the judges will test during a 90-minute hearing. If they rule in favour of a recount George W Bush's lead of just 154 votes may disappear. If they decide against Al Gore is thought likely to concede.
11th December 2000
CANNABIS TRAFFICKERS AWAITING SENTENCE
Three Dutch sailors have admitted their part in smuggling 285 bales of cannabis valued at £43m. Customs officers found the drugs on a yacht off the north east coast. It was Scotland's biggest cannabis seizure. At the High Court in Edinburgh Albert Hulst Christian Ekkebus & Arjeh Vandijk changed their pleas to guilty. They face years in prison. The court heard the men's yacht the Red Scorpion was stopped in June. The three Dutchmen will be sentenced tomorrow.
10th December 2000
US SUPREME COURT SUSPENDS ALL RECOUNTS
Lawyers for George W Bush & Al Gore are presenting written arguments to the US Supreme Court on the eve of a hearing that could decide the election. The court yesterday decided by a margin of five judges to four to call a halt to the recounts which were ordered earlier by the Florida Supreme Court. Fresh arguments on the matter are set to be heard by the court on Monday. State officials had been counting up to 45 000 disputed "under-vote" ballots.
11th December 2000
SUPREME COURT BEGINS HISTORIC HEARING
The nine judges of the US Supreme Court have begun a hearing that could decide the country's next president. The court has to say whether disputed votes in Florida should be recounted. Yesterday the two sides submitted written arguments which the judges will test during a 90-minute hearing. If they rule in favour of a recount George W Bush's lead of just 154 votes may disappear. If they decide against Al Gore is thought likely to concede.
11th December 2000
SUPREME COURT ELECTION RULING AWAITED
The US is waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on the crucial Florida votes in the presidential election. A Supreme Court spokeswoman said soon after midnight GMT that an opinion was not likely for some hours. If the court rules in favour of a recount of disputed votes in Florida George W Bush's slim lead may disappear Meanwhile the Florida Supreme Court has defended its support for recounts saying this was based on Florida law.
10th December 2000
ABRUPT HALT TO FLORIDA HAND RECOUNTS
Recounts of ballots in at least two key Florida counties stopped abruptly after the US Supreme Court approved a request by Republican lawyers. Judges were half-way through counting some 9 000 ballots from Miami-Dade County when the operation was shut down after hurried consultations. Electoral officials also stopped work in Hillsborough County. Court administrators locked the doors to safeguard the ballots.
11th December 2000
SUPREME COURT BEGINS HISTORIC HEARING
The nine judges of the US Supreme Court have begun a hearing that could decide the country's next president. The court has to say whether disputed votes in Florida should be recounted. Yesterday the two sides submitted written arguments which the judges will test during a 90-minute hearing. If they rule in favour of a recount George W Bush's lead of just 154 votes may disappear. If they decide against Al Gore is thought likely to concede.
11th December 2000
HAMILTON STARTS LIBEL DEFEAT APPEAL
Ex-Tory MP Neil Hamilton has begun an appeal against his libel defeat by Harrods owner Mohamed al-Fayed. Mr Hamilton says the Harrods boss paid #10 000 for documents allegedly taken from bins outside the offices of his lawyers. Mr al-Fayed denies the claim. The former MP says if the judge & jury had known that the outcome of his libel trial would have been different. The Court of Appeal hearing in London is expected to last five days.
10th December 2000
MOROCCAN POLICE BREAK UP RIGHTS PROTEST
Police anti-riot squads in the Moroccan capital Rabat have arrested more than 40 human-rights activists during a protest at the parliament building. The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) was marking international human rights day although the authorities had banned the meeting in the capital. Eyewitnesses said riot squad officers beat several of the protesters as they were led away to waiting police vans. The AMDH vice-president Abderrahmane Benameurand was among those arrested.
11th December 2000
SUPREME COURT BEGINS HISTORIC HEARING
The nine judges of the US Supreme Court have begun a hearing that could decide the country's next president. The court has to say whether disputed votes in Florida should be recounted. Yesterday the two sides submitted written arguments which the judges will test during a 90-minute hearing. If they rule in favour of a recount George W Bush's lead of just 154 votes may disappear. If they decide against Al Gore is thought likely to concede.
11th December 2000
ILIESCU WINS LANDSLIDE IN ROMANIA POLL
Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu has won a landslide victory over ultra- nationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor in the country's presidential elections. Mr Iliescu 70 who served as President from 1990 to 1996 won only 36% of the vote in the first round on November 26. But in the run-off he took nearly 67%. Mr Tudor had 33% after returns from 80% of polling booths had been counted. Opponents say Mr Tudor is anti-semitic anti-gypsy & anti-Hungarian.
