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Bolivia's foreign minister said that the world has an obligation to send aid to flood-ravaged areas, linking a disaster that has killed 49 people to global climate change.
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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee (MPC) lowered interest rates from 5,75% to 5.5%.
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Chile announced it will try to head off power rationing by cutting electrical voltage, distributing efficient light bulbs and extending daylight savings time.
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In Egypt at least 29 people, including children, were killed and 16 injured in a traffic pileup blamed on early morning fog southeast of Cairo.
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In Greece senior clergy elected Metropolitan Bishop Ieronymos of Thebes as the new leader of the powerful Orthodox Church to succeed the late Archbishop Christodoulos.
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The US Congress passed an emergency plan that rushed rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers and $300 checks to disabled veterans, the elderly and other low-income people. President Bush indicated he would sign the measure.
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The US said it was barring 10 leading Kenyan politicians from entering the US, the first time Washington has blamed them for the postelection violence that has brought the African country to the brink of collapse.
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Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
1993 –
David Dorfman, American actor
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Philip Wiegratz, German actor
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Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer
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Rachel Sibner, American actress
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Anna Abreu, Finnish singer
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Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
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Louisa Lytton Feb 7 British actress
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Ai Kago, Japanese singer
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Matthew Stafford, American college football player
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February, 7
- Births
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2009,
Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2008,
Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2006,
Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2005,
Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2003,
Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003,
John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2002,
Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
2001,
Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2001,
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
2000,
Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
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