What Were The Major 2002 World Events?

Some of the major events that took place in the world in the year 2002 were the criminal investigation of Enron by the US Department of Justice, the freezing of the assets of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Al Qaeda by the UN Security Council, the abduction and subsequent murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal in Pakistan, the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, the ceasefire in Sri Lanka, the US invasion of Afghanistan, the death of Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), the World Cup soccer tournament in Japan and South Korea, NASA's Mars Odyssey, the Iraq disarmament crisis, Brazil's fifth World Cup soccer victory, the Bali bombing, the NATO Summit in Prague, Switzerland's membership of the UN, the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, the riots in Gujarat (India), a total solar eclipse, the elections in the United States and Slobodan Milosevic's trial.

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