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- Colombia's left-wing FARC rebels claim responsibility for the massacre of 34 coca farmers found dead earlier this week, claiming the farmers were supporters of right-wing paramilitary groups.
- Human rights situation in post-Saddam Iraq: The Pentagon confirms a report in The New York Times that U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered the secret detainment of an Iraqi prisoner, in possible violation of the Geneva Conventions.
- In football, on the sixth day of EURO 2004, England beat Switzerland, 3-0, whilst Croatia hold France to a 2-2 draw.
- Notorious kidnapper and rapist Marc Dutroux is found guilty of murder by a Belgian jury.
- In a preliminary report, the 9/11 Commission fails to find any ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein and his government concerning 9/11, and reveals that the terrorist group had planned a "more spectacular" attack using ten airplanes.