- The ballot counting is complete in Northern Ireland’s legislative election, and the Democratic Unionist Party has emerged with a plurality – The Party’s leader is opposed to the Good Friday Peace Plan
- The Sudanese government and Southern Rebel Forces agree to a truce extension – the 2 sides are set to resume talks this weekend on a permanent peace accord that could end a deadly civil war
- A report from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says Israel’s seperation wall in the West Bank is an impediment to Mideast peace
- On the unofficial kickoff of the Christmas shopping season, activists turn out at SF’s Union Square to urge shoppers not to buy fur