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A top UN humanitarian official said thousands of civilians have taken refuge on floating islands in the lakes of Congo's Katanga province to escape rape and murder by government and militia fighters.
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Gunmen pulled factory workers off buses northeast of Baghdad and shot dead 47 of them. They left their bodies in a ditch as militia battles and sectarian reprisals followed the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine. Sunni Arabs suspended their participation in talks on a new government. The bodies of 23 men were found dumped at six sites in Baghdad, most of them in predominantly Shiite parts of the city. In total over 100 people were killed across Iraq.
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The bodies of 3 Iraqi Sunni journalists were found near Samarra. They included Atwar Bahjat, a well-known correspondent for Al-Arabiya television, and her colleagues engineer Adnan Khairullah and cameraman Khalid Mahmoud.
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Tens of thousands of Lebanese Shiites beat their chests in mourning and shouted anti-American slogans in a rally to protest the bombing of a Muslim shrine in Iraq.
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A powerful earthquake sent thousands of panicking people fleeing from swaying buildings in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and killed at least two people.
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Christians in the southern Nigerian city of Onitsha burned Muslim corpses and defaced wrecked mosques, showing little repentance after days of sectarian violence that has killed more than 120 people across the country.
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In Russia the concave, snow-covered roof of Moscow’s Basmanny market collapsed, killing at least 66 people.
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SEP, 8
- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
Dakota Fanning, American actress
1989 –
Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1986 –
Holly Brook, American musician
1986 –
Jerod Mayo, American Football player
1986 –
Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
1986 –
Ola Svensson, Swedish Pop Singer
1983 –
Aziz Ansari, Indian American Comedian
1983 –
Emily Blunt, British actress
1983 –
Mido, Egyptian footballer
1983 –
Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
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February, 23
- Births
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2008,
Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950)
2008,
Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
2008,
Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
2007,
Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
2007,
John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2006,
Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
2006,
Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2004,
Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
2004,
Neil Ardley, English jazz pianist and composer (b. 1937)
2004,
Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
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February, 23
- Deaths
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