The country with the second largest number, Canada, had just 1,396 locations. Only two other countries had more than one thousand Starbucks stores at this time, China and Japan. Surprisingly, the city with the largest number of Starbucks stores worldwide was found in none of the aforementioned countries.
July 16, 2004. When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that's news. So the remarks by South Carolina's senior Senator in May 2004 that Iraq was invaded to secure Israel, and that everybody in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable. Ernest Fritz Hollings, a Democrat who has represented his state in the US Senate since 1966, is now serving his final term in Washington.
1 August 2: About 100,000 Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait, initiating the Gulf War. 2  The U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 661 imposing a trade embargo on Iraq in a 13-0 vote, with Cuba and Yemen abstaining.3  August 7: The United States launched Operation Desert Shield. August 8: Saddam Hussein proclaimed the annexation of Kuwait. 2  August 12: Naval blockade of Iraq begins. 3  August 28: Iraq declared Kuwait as its 19th province and renames Kuwait City as al-Kadhima. 4  September 14: United Kingdom and France announce the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia.