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The Muslim world erupted in anger after cartoons they found offensive were re-published in Europe. Streets in Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Palestine, Pakistan and Turkey filled with demonstrators calling for boycotts of European goods and burning the flag of Denmark, where the cartoons first appeared.
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A pro-government candidate in Nepal's municipal election died after being shot by communist rebels, the 2nd person to be assassinated ahead of next week's polls.
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Foreign Minister Ben Bot said Netherlands will send 1,200 additional troops to Afghanistan, the day after parliament gave the green light to the deployment.
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North and South Korea agreed to hold military talks on the level of generals for the first time in nearly two years and the South said they would focus on preventing naval clashes.
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In Russia Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, the head of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society in Nizhny Novgorod, was convicted of inciting ethnic hatred, a verdict he condemned as part of a state assault on non-governmental organizations. Dmitriyevsky had campaigned against rights abuses in Chechnya.
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Mas Selamat Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted man, believed to have planned bomb and plane-crash attacks on the island's airport, was deported to Singapore following his arrest in Indonesia under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
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The $10 million Turkish film "Valley of the Wolves Iraq" opened in Turkey. It fed off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbored toward Americans. In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
Quincy Washington, BBC TV Show Winner
1990 –
Sean Kingston, Jamaican/American singer/rapper
1989 –
Ryne Sanborn, American actor
1989 –
Slobodan Rajkovic, Serbian footballer
1988 –
Kyuhyun, a singer, a member of Korean boy group Super Junior
1983 –
Richard Bartel, American football player
1983 –
Silambarasan Rajendar, Indian Tamil actor
1982 –
Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver
1982 –
Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)
1981 –
Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer
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February, 3
- Births
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2009,
Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (b. 1930)211 Feb 4 Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
1991,
Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1991,
Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
1989,
John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)
1989,
Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)
1985,
Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1975,
William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975,
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1969,
Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder (b. 1920)
1967,
Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)
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February, 3
- Deaths
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