In September 2002, the Armenian government handed over Armenia ’ s largest cement factory to the Russian ITERA gas exporter in payment for its $ 10 million debt for past gas deliveries.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

The DPP became the largest party having reached a plurality in the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 2002 following the 2001 legislative election.

Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas ($ 936. 5 million in 2002 ) and a major exporter of shrimp ($ 251 million in 2002 ).

* 2002 – Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.

A 2006 study from Brazil examined data from testing children during 1930 and 2002 – 2004, the largest time gap ever considered.

* 2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.

* 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

As of the 2002 All-Russian Population Census, the majority of the 358, 801 population is Russian ( 290, 108 ), largest minorities are Ukrainian ( 20, 870 ) and Koryak ( 7, 328 ).

The banking sector is highly concentrated with the five largest banks accounting for over 70 % of lending in 2002.

* Sahara with Michael Palin ( Travel 2001 / 02 ; Programme release 2002 ): in which he trekked around and through the world's largest desert.

* 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.

On the international front, in late July 2002, the Republic of China ( commonly known after its largest island as Taiwan ) cut its diplomatic ties with Nauru.

* 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons ( 76, 000 m³ ) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

In 2002 the government merged the nine largest airlines into three regional groups based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, respectively: Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines, which operate most of China's external flights.

By 2002 tea became Rwanda ’ s largest export, with export earnings from tea reaching US $ 18 million equating to 15, 000 tons of dried tea.

The Republic of India has the third largest road system in the world with ( 2002 ).

In the 2002 French presidential election, the two contenders described by the media as having the possibility to win were Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, who represented the largest two political parties in France at the time.

Congress passed and President Bush signed the Homeland Security Act of 2002, creating the Department of Homeland Security, representing the largest restructuring of the U. S. government in contemporary history.

Although the industrial sector has traditionally been Taiwan's largest energy consumer, its share has dropped in recent years from 62 % in 1986 to 58 % in 2002.

In 2002, the Times published a story accusing the National Educational Association ( NEA ), the largest teachers ' union in the United States, of promoting teaching students that the policies of the United States government were partly to blame for the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

The future of the copper industry in Zambia was thrown into doubt in January 2002, when investors in Zambia's largest copper mine announced their intention to withdraw their investment.

What is believed to be the largest E. coli O157: H7 outbreak in Oregon history occurred among attendees at the Lane County fair in 2002.

* 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.

* 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez.

She notably spoke of her support for its reintroduction for the worst cases of murder in the aftermath of the murder of two 10-year-old girls from Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.

As of late 2002, the Navy had reportedly become responsible for flying all aircraft with the rivalry having subsided between the two branches of the armed forces.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped in as a mediator and chaired a tripartite summit with the two countries ' presidents on 15 November 2002, which established a commission to facilitate the peaceful implementation of the ICJ's judgement.

The events of the day have been dramatised in the two 2002 television dramas, Bloody Sunday ( starring James Nesbitt ) and Sunday by Jimmy McGovern.

Bilateral relations have beenvery good: in 2002, for example, the trade value between our two countries reached US $ 1. 8 million, in Chinese exports of light industry products and miscellaneous goods.

The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

They no longer maintain a rivalry, as Carolina was moved to the NFC South in 2002, and the two have played rarely since then.

In 2002, the Science Fiction Book Club also published the two novels in one volume.

In the 2000s, the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars released two concept albums, 30 Seconds to Mars ( 2002 ) and This Is War ( 2009 ).

Dale Earnhardt Jr. made two special appearances in 2002 in a No. 3 Busch Series car: these appearances were at the track where his father died ( Daytona ) and the track where his father made his first Winston Cup start ( Charlotte ).

In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo ; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a Transition Government, the make-up of which would allow representation for all negotiating parties.

The majority of works in the 1960s were also about the Jewish diaspora, but in 2002 only two out of 20 books sampled ( out of a total of 253 ) were about the Jewish case, with a total of eight different diasporas covered.

On February 21, 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted that two US extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on Diego Garcia in 2002.

* An agreement concerning the use of the Port of Djibouti and the transit of cargo, was signed in Djibouti between the two countries on 13 April 2002, and ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 4 June of the same year.

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996 ; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d ; a fourth planet was claimed ( its existence was later disputed ) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b ; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is " j ", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j ( HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter ).

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

Fellini had two siblings: Riccardo ( 1921 – 1991 ), a documentary director for RAI Television, and Maria Maddalena ( m. Fabbri ; 1929 – 2002 ).

Safir GT40 Spares licensed the use of the GT40 trademark to Ford for the initial 2002 show car, but when Ford decided to make the production vehicle, negotiations between the two failed, and as a result the new Ford GT does not wear the badge GT40.

The success of a multi-center trial for treating children with SCID ( severe combined immune deficiency or " bubble boy " disease ) held from 2000 and 2002 was questioned when two of the ten children treated at the trial's Paris center developed a leukemia-like condition.

Since then, gubernatorial elections have been offset by two years from U. S. Presidential elections ( e. g., Presidential elections were in 2000 and 2004, gubernatorial elections were in 1998 and 2002 ).

Explaining the internal impact of the DDR regime from the perspective of German history in the long term, historian Gerhard A. Ritter ( 2002 ) has argued that the East German state was defined by two dominant forces – Soviet Communism on the one hand, and German traditions filtered through the interwar experiences of German Communists on the other.