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In Afghanistan bitter cold, snowstorms and avalanches were reported to have killed 926 people, half of them in the hard hit west, as the country suffered one of the most brutal winters in decades.
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A group of Canadian sex trade workers hoping to set up a legal "co-op" brothel in time for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver said they have won approval to incorporate themselves.
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Two international rights groups said Egyptian police have stepped up arrests of persons suspected of having HIV, detaining four men this month in a crackdown that violates basic human rights.
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In eastern India hundreds of Maoist militants stormed six police compounds in carefully coordinated attacks, killing 13 police personnel and one civilian. 11 policemen were injured.
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A 3-year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu, the country's second death from the illness in one day. The two cases, which were apparently unrelated, brought Indonesia's bird flu death toll to 105.
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In Iraq 2 suicide bombers, one apparently armed with a grenade as well as an explosive vest, killed at least three people and wounded 17 as worshippers left a Shiite mosque after prayers in the northwestern city of Tal Afar. 3 neighborhood security guards were killed and 2 others injured when US attack helicopters fired at their checkpoint south of Baghdad.
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In Mexico City a bomb exploded near the police headquarters killing one man. A singer and two members of his staff were tortured and killed just south of the California border, apparently the latest victims in a string of slayings of Mexican musicians. The border killings were not reported until
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
1989 –
Bonnie Dennison, American actress
1988 –
Hironori Kusano, Japanese Idol
1987 –
Jarrod Sammut, Australian-Maltese rugby league player, Penrith Panthers.
1986 –
Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
1984 –
Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer (Virgin)
1984 –
Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
1983 –
Ashley Tesoro, American actress and singer
1983 –
Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
1981 –
Diego Martínez, Mexican footballer
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February, 15
- Births
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2009,
Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
2009,
Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935
2008,
Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
2008,
Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)
2007,
Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
2007,
Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2005,
Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2005,
Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2004,
Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
2004,
Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
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February, 15
- Deaths
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