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A French appeals court ruled that Pierre Pinoncelli (78), who attacked Marcel Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal (fountain) with a hammer last year, does not have to pay $260,000 in damages. Pinoncelli urinated on "Fountain" during a 1993 exhibition in Nimes in southern France, and cut off his own finger as an expression of solidarity with Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, held hostage by leftist guerrillas in Colombia since 2002.
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In France Alcatel-Lucent SA said it plans to cut another 3,500 jobs after it swung to a loss in the fourth quarter, the first for which the telecom equipment maker reported combined earnings.
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In Guinea President Lansana Conte named Eugene Camara, a recently appointed cabinet member, as prime minister. The move was apparently aimed at appeasing union leaders who led a crippling two-week strike. Under an agreement signed by the two sides, the new PM cannot have previously served in the government.
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Hundreds of UN peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest and most violent slum, seizing a portion of it in a six-hour gunbattle that left a gang member dead and two soldiers wounded.
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The UN atomic monitor suspended nearly half the technical aid it provides to Iran, a symbolically significant punishment for nuclear defiance that only North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq had faced in the past.
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Gunmen dressed in Iraqi army uniforms swept into a village south of Baghdad, kidnapping 13 civilians and killing at least 11 of them. A British soldier was killed and three others were hurt in a roadside bomb attack in southern Iraq. 3 US soldiers died in an explosion in volatile Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.
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Israeli police stormed the grounds of Islam's third-holiest shrine, firing stun grenades and tear gas to disperse thousands of Muslim worshippers who hurled stones, bottles and trash in an eruption of outrage over Israeli renovation nearby.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1996 –
Jimmy Bennett, American actor
1992 –
Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
1990 –
Camille Winbush, American actress
1989 –
Gia Farrell, American singer
1989 –
Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
1987 –
Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
1987 –
Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
1986 –
Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
1985 –
David Gallagher, American actor
1985 –
Rachel Melvin, American actress
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February, 9
- Births
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2009,
Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
2008,
Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author. (b. 1943)
2008,
Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008,
Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008,
Scott Halpin, American musician, temporary drummer for (The Who) (b. 1954)
2007,
Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2007,
Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2006,
Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006,
Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2005,
Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (b. 1938)
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February, 9
- Deaths
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