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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, under mounting pressure over a world record-busting inflation rate and escalating strike action in the public sector, sacked his finance minister. A union chief said 60 Zimbabwean junior doctors have been sacked from Harare's main hospital after going on strike in December demanding salary hikes.
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A twin-engine plane crashed in Brazil’s Amazon jungle, killing all six people aboard.
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Six people were hurt by a third letter bomb in three days aimed at British motoring-related organizations and police are investigating if the attacks are part of a coordinated campaign.
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Canada’s Nortel Networks Corp. said it will slash 2,900 jobs, or 8.5 percent of its workforce, over the next two years and shift another 1,000 employees to lower-cost locations like China, India and Mexico as North America's biggest maker of telephone equipment struggles to shore up its profits.
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In central China an overcrowded passenger vehicle returning from a wedding party plunged off a cliff, killing 16 members of an extended family.
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Colombia's top court ruled that gay couples, who have lived together for more than 2 years, should have the same rights to shared assets as heterosexual couples. The decision by the Constitutional Court marked the first recognition of gay couples' rights in Colombia.
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Georgia signed a regional cooperation agreement with Azerbaijan and Turkey which included plans for a railway connecting the three countries.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1996 –
Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
1993 –
David Dorfman, American actor
1993 –
Philip Wiegratz, German actor
1992 –
Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer
1991 –
Rachel Sibner, American actress
1990 –
Anna Abreu, Finnish singer
1990 –
Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 –
Louisa Lytton Feb 7 British actress
1988 –
Ai Kago, Japanese singer
1988 –
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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February, 7
- Deaths
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