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In Guatemala President Alvaro Colom announced that a new panel will work to declassify military documents that should shed light on killings, torture and other human rights violations during Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
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A roadside bomb killed four Shiite pilgrims and wounded 15 south of Baghdad in at least the third fatal attack on people traveling to one of their sect's most sacred gatherings. A suicide bomber in a wheelchair talked his way into Samarra’s operations center and blew himself up, killing the deputy commander, Abdul Jabbar Rabeia. Gunmen opened fire on a police convoy in Mosul. Four officers were killed in the attack.
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The New York Philharmonic arrived in a snowy Pyongyang to play the symphony "From the New World" in an overture to thaw still frozen ties from the Cold War era between the United States and North Korea.
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In Pakistan a suicide bomber hit a car carrying Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Ahmed Baig,the army's surgeon general, in Rawalpindi, killing him along with at least seven other people. Gunmen opened fire and hurled grenades at the office of a British-run aid group in northwest Pakistan, killing at least four local staff and wounding 10 others.
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Thousands of Filipinos took to the streets and flocked to churches in a fresh wave of nationwide protests on the anniversary of a 1986 grass-roots revolt, calling for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign.
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Up to 2,000 Serb protesters rallied against Kosovo's independence in the new nation's tense north, a few setting fire to EU flags in what has become a daily challenge following the country's secession from Serbia.
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In South Korea former businessman Lee Myung-Bak took office as president, promising greater prosperity both for his own nation and for impoverished North Korea if it scraps its nuclear drive.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1998 –
Brendon Baerg, American actor
1991 –
Tony Oller, American actor
1990 –
Alejandra Andreu, Miss International 2008
1987 –
Eva Avila, Canadian singer
1986 –
Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
1986 –
James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
1986 –
Justin Berfield, American actor
1985 –
Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player
1985 –
Joakim Noah, American basketball player
1984 –
Logan Leistikow, American director and actor
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February, 25
- Births
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2009,
Ivan Cameron, son of David Cameron UK politician
2008,
Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
2008,
Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
2008,
Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
2008,
Charles Chan, Father of Jackie Chan (b. 1914)
2007,
William R. Anderson, CO USS Nautilus submarine, US Congressman (b. 1921)
2007,
Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
2006,
Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
2006,
Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
2006,
Thomas Koppel, Danish musician (b. 1944)
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February, 25
- Deaths
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