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Callixte Nzabonimana (55), Rwanda’s former youth and sport minister. was arrested in the town of Kigoma, Tanzania. He faced trial for participating in the 1994 genocide.
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Sri Lankan soldiers captured a line of strategic rebel bunkers after a battle that killed 10 rebels and one soldier.
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Pakistanis voted for a new parliament in elections shadowed by fears of violence and questions about the political survival of President Pervez Musharraf.
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More than 1,000 police raided housing projects outside Paris, detaining over 30 people in a bid to find rioters who led an outburst of violence last year.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet (85), avant-garde French author, died. He dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar "new novel" movement.
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President Bush handed out hugs and bed nets in Tanzania's rural north, saying the US is part of a new international effort to provide enough mosquito netting to protect every child between one and five from contracting malaria in this east African nation.
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President Bush hailed Kosovo's bold and historic bid for statehood, saying "The Kosovars are now independent." (AP, 2/18/08)
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Malese Jow, American actress and singer
1988 –
Maiara Walsh, American actress
1988 –
Max (singer), South Korean singer TVXQ
1988 –
Shane Lyons, American actor and chef
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Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer
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Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
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Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican serial killer
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Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
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Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
1983 –
Troy Bienemann, American football player
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February, 18
- Births
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2009,
Al-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese novelist and columnist (b. 1929)
2008,
Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917)
2008,
Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress, (b. 1955)
2008,
Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988)
2006,
Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
2004,
Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
2003,
Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
2001,
Balthus, Polish-born painter (b. 1908)
2001,
Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
2001,
Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (b. 1931)
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February, 18
- Deaths
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