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More than two million people in the Darfur region of Sudan remained in urgent need of food after continuing attacks on villages by Arab militias. A group calling itself the Army of Mohammed handed out leaflets in Khartoum calling for the death of any Western soldiers sent to Sudan. Two thirds of Bangladesh was flooded and 20 million people were made homeless; hundreds died. A suicide car-bombing in the Iraqi city of Baqouba killed more than 50, and in clashes south-east of Baghdad about 35 insurgents and seven Iraqi soldiers died. The relief agency Médecins Sans Frontières said it was withdrawing from Afghanistan because of the lack of security in the country. More than 100,000 Israelis held hands in a 60-mile human chain from Jerusalem to the Gaza Strip in protest against plans by Mr Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister, to remove Jewish settlers from occupied territory. Police in Saudi Arabia failed to catch Saleh al-Awfi, a leader of al-Qa’eda operations in the country, thought to be at large in Riyadh. President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina dismissed Mr Gustavo Beliz as the country’s justice minister after he criticised the state security and intelligence agency known as Side. Two hundred defectors from North Korea, who had escaped via China, flew into Seoul, followed by another contingent of 260. Mr Stanislav Gross became the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic at the age of 34. An express train from Istanbul to Ankara was derailed, killing 37, and three days later a train bound for Izmir killed 14 in a minibus on a level-crossing. Sacha Distel, the entertainer, died, aged 72. Lance Armstrong, an American, became the most successful rider in the Tour de France bicycle race by winning it for the sixth time. In Japan the register of officially recognised pictograms representing personal names was expanded to allow babies to be called Prostitute or Buttocks, but the ministry responsible decided under public pressure to disallow characters meaning Rape, Excrement and Cancer.
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