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President Hugo Chavez said that Venezuela is expelling a US Navy officer for allegedly passing secret information from the Venezuelan military to the Pentagon and warned he will throw out all US military attaches if further espionage occurs.
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In Iraq a mortar attack on the Northern Oil. Co. in Kirkuk resulted in devastating pipeline fires and a shut down of all oil operations in the area. The director of the plant was arrested 2 days later along with several employees and police officials and all were charged with helping to orchestrate the attack.
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Italy's government won a vote of confidence in the upper house of parliament on a broad decree that includes financing for the country's mission in Iraq.
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Lebanese officials said the bullet-ridden body of a 15-year-old shepherd was found in disputed territory occupied by Israel.
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Mexican authorities captured Oscar Arriola Marquez, leader of the Arriola Marquez cartel, wanted in the US on cocaine trafficking and money laundering charges, and ranked among the world's most-wanted fugitives.
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In Nepal the homes of 3 mayoral candidates loyal to the king were bombed, a week before nationwide municipal elections that insurgents have called a sham and vowed to disrupt.
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Armed militants, angered by a cartoon drawing of the Prophet Muhammad published in European media, surrounded EU offices in Gaza and threatened to kidnap foreigners as outrage over the caricatures spread across the Islamic world. A fatwa was issued by Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Brotherhood sheikh with his own program on al-Jazeera. Other radical groups joined the fray. Although there is no Quranic injunction against images, Islam in its early years came into contact with a version of Christianity that was militantly iconoclastic and some Muslim theologians issued fatwas against any depiction of the Godhead.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1992 –
Danielle White, American singer
1987 –
Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player
1987 –
Martin Spanjers, American actor
1983 –
Alex Westaway, British musician
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Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
1983 –
Jordin Tootoo, Canadian hockey player
1983 –
Will South, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
1982 –
Brandy Talore, American pornographic actress
1982 –
Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress
1982 –
Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
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February, 2
- Births
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2008,
Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)
2007,
Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
2007,
Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
2007,
Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
2007,
Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007,
Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2007,
Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2005,
Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2004,
Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2003,
Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
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February, 2
- Deaths
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