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Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon praised a new law that obligates federal and local authorities to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women, and he promised a "relentless" fight against gender-related abuse.
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Russia's Emergency Ministry planned to fly a chemical laboratory to the Omsk region in southern Siberia to analyze oily yellow and orange snow which has covered an area home to 27,000 people. Omsk is a heavily industrial city with a number of oil and gas refineries.
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Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary Gen-eral for Children and Armed Conflict, said child soldiers are increasingly being used in the war-torn region of Darfur, even as their use is on the decline elsewhere in Sudan.
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The departing top US commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that improving security in Baghdad would take fewer than half as many extra troops as President Bush had chosen to commit.
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The National Academy of Engineering announced that the 2007 Grainger Chal-lenge Prize for Sustainability would go to Abul Hussam, a chemistry professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He had developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water, and planned to use most of the $1 million engineering prize to distrib-ute the filters to needy communities around the world.
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Montana sued Wyoming in the Supreme Court saying its neighbor takes more Tongue- and Powder- River water that it is entitled to.
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In SF Mayor Gavin Newsom admitted to having an affair with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, his campaign manager’s wife.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter
1989 –
Hurricane Chris, American rapper
1987 –
Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1986 –
Lauren Conrad, American TV star
1985 –
Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1985 –
Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
1985 –
Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1984 –
Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1984 –
Lee Thompson Young, American actor
1983 –
Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
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February, 1
- Births
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2008,
Beto Carrero, Brazilian theme park owner and entertainer (b. 1937)
2007,
Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007,
Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007,
Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
2007,
Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007,
Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
2006,
Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2006,
Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2005,
John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2004,
May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
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February, 1
- Deaths
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