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Israel launched airstrikes against militants firing rockets from the Gaza Strip on and vowed to maintain a war "on all fronts" until the territory's Hamas rulers halt attacks. Hamas rockets wounded two young sisters at Kibbutz Beeri.
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Italy's Pres. Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament, clearing the way for early elections just two years after the last parliamentary vote. Premier Romano Prodi will continue as caretaker premier until the election.
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The Mozambican government announced that it was scrapping a planned increase in bus fares as the death toll from riots sparked by the price hikes rose to three.
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In Nigeria armed men killed a policeman in an overnight attack and kidnapped the wife of a prominent politician in Port Harcourt. She was released 2 days later.
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A coalition of Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan declared an "indefinite" cease-fire in fighting against security forces. The government said it was preparing for peace talks. A Pakistani army helicopter crashed in the same region, killing three generals and five other soldiers. Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a ethnic Pashtun politician in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, raising tensions ahead of elections later this month.
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A Russian court suspended the trial of Vasily Aleksanian, an ailing former executive of the dismantled oil giant Yukos, but refused to release him from jail to be treated for AIDS-related cancer and tuberculosis.
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In eastern Switzerland 2 paintings by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) worth nearly five million Swiss francs (4.5 million dollars, 3.1 million euros) were stolen from a museum. The two oil paintings, "Tete de Cheval" from 1962 and "Verre et pichet" from 1944
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- Current / Future Events
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2004 –
Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Princess of Belgium
1989 –
Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
1988 –
Allison Holker, American dancer
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Bailey Hanks, American actress
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Alice Greczyn, American actress
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Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
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U-Know, leader of Korean group TVXQ
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Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
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Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1985 –
Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
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February, 6
- Births
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2008,
John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2008,
Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
2007,
Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007,
Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007,
Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007,
Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2007,
Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
2005,
Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005,
Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2002,
Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
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February, 6
- Deaths
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