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Mozambique officials said soldiers and relief workers using helicopters and canoes have evacuated some 60,000 people from the flooded Zambezi River Valley in central Mozambique, where more than 100,000 others are at risk.
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A report issued by a human rights group accused Myanmar's military of killing, raping and torturing ethnic Karen women as part of its battle against the minority group over the past 25 years.
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Portugal's prime minister said he will enact more liberal abortion laws in the conservative Roman Catholic country even though his proposal to relax restrictions failed to win complete endorsement in a referendum.
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In Qatar Russia’s Putin and Qatari Emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced they would explore the creation of a natural gas cartel to represent the interests of producer countries. Qatar sits atop the world's single largest gas field.
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Russian military prosecutors pledged to investigate allegations that young conscripts were forced into prostitution by fellow soldiers, the latest claim of rampant abuse in the nation's armed forces.
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In Somalia a mortar slammed into a home in Mogadishu, killing a father and his 6-year-old son as they slept and wounding four people.
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A vessel smuggling 120 people across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen capsized as it approached the coast. At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants trying to reach the Arabian peninsula drowned.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1993 –
Jennifer Stone, American actress
1991 –
Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, prince of Bahrain (d. 2006)
1988 –
Greta Salpeter, American singer of the band The Hush Sound
1988 –
Nana Eikura, Japanese actress
1985 –
Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress
1984 –
Brad Keselowski, American racing car driver
1984 –
Lolly Badcock, English pornographic actress
1984 –
Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer
1983 –
Carlton Brewster, American football player
1982 –
Louis Tsatoumas, Greek long jumper
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February, 12
- Births
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2008,
Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
2007,
Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1905)
2007,
Randy Stone, American actor and casting director (b. 1958)
2005,
Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (b. 1964)
2005,
Sammi Smith, American country music singer (b. 1943)
2003,
Vali Myers, Australian painter (b. 1930)
2001,
Kristina Söderbaum, German actress (b. 1912)
2000,
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
2000,
Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
2000,
Andy Lewis, Australian musician (b. 1967)
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February, 12
- Deaths
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