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Event Search Results for "Controls"
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Zimbabwe said it has decided to float its local currency on foreign exchange markets in an attempt to eliminate speculation on the black market. Farmers tore up their tobacco crop in protest on the auction floors of Harare as state price controls to combat hyperinflation threatened to wipe out their profits. An unidentified senior official with Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party said results from the March 29 election gave opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai 47% of the votes while Mugabe trailed with 43%.
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Spanish officials said 2 people in Spain have died of the human variant of mad cow disease, in the first such fatalities since 2005. The two new victims apparently contracted the disease prior to 2001 and health controls on livestock and meat production are much tighter now than they were then. Spain has reported more than 700 cases of mad cow disease since it was first detected in this country in 2000.
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Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
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A regulator said China will shut down or punish dozens of video-sharing Web sites for carrying content deemed pornographic, violent or a threat to national security under rules that tighten Internet controls. China’s government stepped up its manhunt for protesters in last week's riots in the capital of Tibet, as thousands of troops converged on foot, trucks and helicopters to Tibetan areas of western China.
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US National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell said told a Senate committee in Washington that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government controls just 30% of the country. The resurgent Taliban controls 10-11% of the country, while local tribes control the rest. The Afghan Defense Ministry soon replied saying: "All Afghan people know that in the 34 provinces of Afghanistan and in more than 360 districts ... the government has control." A remote-controlled bomb hit a civilian vehicle in eastern Khost province, killing the driver and wounding six people. A militant ambush of an opium poppy eradication force in Helmand province sparked clashes that left 25 Taliban fighters and a policeman dead.
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China’s government froze prices that it controls for the rest of the year, in the latest sign of mounting concern over inflation, which reached 6.5% in the year through August.
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China’s government froze prices that it controls for the rest of the year, in the latest sign of mounting concern over inflation, which reached 6.5% in the year through August.
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China’s government announced that mainland citizens would be allowed to invest in Hong Kong. State media reported that a test run of traffic controls to clear Beijing's smoggy skies for next year's Olympic Games successfully improved air quality. Media also reported that China will execute people who sabotage the electricity supply, reversing recent steps to rein in widespread use of the death penalty.
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Zimbabwe police said more than 1,300 shop owners and business managers have been arrested as part of a crackdown on firms accused of flouting government-imposed price controls. Thousands of students were evicted from Zimbabwe's main university campus after they protested at the weekend against a decision to deny them food for not paying their fees.
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Rakhat Aliyev, the Kazakh ambassador to Austria until he was dismissed on May 26, was arrested for alleged involvement in the suspected kidnapping of two senior managers of a bank he controls. He appealed to Austrian authorities not to extradite him to his homeland to face kidnapping charges.
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MAY, 21
- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
Tom Daley, English diver
1992 –
Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
1991 –
Sarah Ramos, American actress
1988 –
Jonathan Howson, English footballer
1987 –
Ashlie Brillault, American actress
1986 –
Mario Mandzukic, Croatian footballer
1986 –
Myra, American singer
1985 –
Andrew Miller, American baseball player
1985 –
Kano, British rapper
1985 –
Marco Carta, Italian singer
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May, 21
- Births
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2006,
Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)
2006,
Katherine Dunham, American dancer (b. 1909)
2006,
Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (b. 1931)
2006,
Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)
2005,
Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (b. 1919)
2003,
Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933)
2003,
Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (b. 1928)
2002,
Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
2000,
Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
2000,
Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
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May, 21
- Deaths
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