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Deutsche Boerse, operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, said it has agreed to buy five percent of the Mumbai stock exchange for 42.7 million dollars (32.8 million euros).
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A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 11 of them and wounding 31. An al-Qaida-linked Sunni militant group reportedly claimed responsibility. Within a week Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi was convicted and executed for the bombing.
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The Iraqi government formally launched a long-awaited security crackdown in Baghdad. A parked car bomb struck a predominantly Shiite district elsewhere in central Baghdad, killing four civilians and wounding 10. In Mosul a suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army patrol, killing one soldier and four civilians and wounding 20 other people.
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Mexican immigration agents allegedly locked 10 Guatemalan and two Salvadoran migrants in a trailer after they refused to pay a bribe against of $110 each. In late 2008 the country's National Human Rights Commission called for a government investigation.
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Serbia's parliament overwhelmingly rejected a UN plan that would give virtual independence to the breakaway province of Kosovo.
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In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a conference of Anglican leaders opened as the 77 million-member church struggled with a potentially disastrous fight over the Bible and sexuality.
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Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan's new president, took office a few minutes after the head of the central elections commission announced he had won Sunday's election with nearly 90 percent of the vote. He pledged to follow the ways of longtime autocrat Saparmurat Niyazov, but also promised changes in a country ruled for decades in an all-encompassing cult of personality. He also promised "development of private ownership and entrepreneurship," educational reforms, and more doctors and hospitals.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
Paul Butcher, American actor
1992 –
Freddie Highmore, English actor
1989 –
Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 –
Ángel Di María, Argentine footballer
1988 –
Asia Nitollano, American dancer, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll winner
1988 –
Eliska Sursova, American actress
1988 –
Katie Boland, Canadian actress
1988 –
Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer, winner of Star Academy France 7
1987 –
David Wheater, English footballer
1987 –
Joseph Pichler, American actor
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February, 14
- Births
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2009,
Sir Bernard Ashley, Welsh businessman and entrepreneur. (b. 1926)
2007,
Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
2007,
Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated film maker. (b. 1943)
2006,
Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2006,
Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
2006,
Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
2005,
Najai Turpin, American boxer (b. 1981)
2004,
Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
2003,
Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
2003,
Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
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February, 14
- Deaths
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