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Pres. Bush said that an additional 21,500 US troops will head to Iraq soon to try improve the security situation mainly in Baghdad and the western province of Anbar. Bush’s plan became known as “the surge.”
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Bosnia's state court jailed a Swede, a Turk and a Bosnian for up to 15 years four months for planning a suicide attack in Europe. All 3 men were Muslims and wanted to pressure Bosnia and European governments to withdraw forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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China said 2006 its global trade surplus jumped nearly 75% from the previous year to a record $177.5 billion. Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, was beaten while visiting a mine in Hunyuan county in the northern province of Shanxi and died of an apparent brain hemorrhage the next day. His death sparked a media outcry and a police investigation. On June 27 the Intermediate People's Court of Linfen city in Shanxi province convicted Hou Zhenrun, the head of a small unlicensed mine outside the northern city of Datong, for organizing a gang of five men to beat reporter. Zhenrun sentenced to life in prison. The five men who beat the reporters received jail terms of 5-15 years. A sixth was sentenced to a year in jail for harboring the suspects.
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Cuban dissident Manuel Valdes Tamayo (50) died. He was one of 75 activists jailed in a massive crackdown in 2003 and released a year later for health reasons.
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In Guinea shop, government and business workers held a general strike, heeding a union call for protests after President Lansana Conte decided to free two corruption suspects. Unions demanded that Mamadou Sylla and Fode Soumah, who have been charged with embezzling public funds and imprisoned in Conakry on December 6, be put back in jail. The strike threatened the world’s surplus of alumina, used to make aluminum. Guinea accounted for 10% of the world’s bauxite exports and 30% of its reserves.
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Former Guinea-Bissau PM Carlos Gomes Jr. sought asylum at the local UN office, three days after he said President Vieira was behind the assassination of an ex-military commander last week.
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In northern Indian a 4-story building under construction in Allahabad collapsed, killing 10 workers and injuring at least 25.
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- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Adnan Causevic, Bosnian-Norwegian soccer player
1990 –
Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer
1989 –
Kyle Reimers, Australian rules footballer
1986 –
Abigail Clancy, English model
1986 –
Saleisha Stowers, American model
1983 –
Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
1983 –
Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
1982 –
Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
1981 –
Brian Joo, Korean-born singer
1980 –
Matt Roney, American baseball player
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January, 10
- Births
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2009,
William Frederick "Bill" Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2008,
Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
2008,
Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
2008,
Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
2007,
Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
2007,
Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
2005,
Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
2005,
Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2005,
James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005,
Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
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January, 10
- Deaths
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