Portal:Current events/2002 December 17

December 17, 2002 (Tuesday)

Congo's government, rebels and opposition parties signed a peace accord to end four years of civil war and set up a transitional government to lead Africa's third-largest nation to its first democratic elections since independence in 1960.
The Bush administration announced it will begin deploying a limited system to defend the United States against ballistic missiles by 2004.
ElcomSoft is found not guilty on four counts of DMCA violations, in the first important test case involving the controversial law.