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The NY Times reported that at least 121 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have committed a killing or been charged in one in the US after returning from combat.
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Ken Kelley (58), former editor of the Ann Arbor Argus and the SF-based SunDance magazine, died in Pleasanton, Ca.
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In Abu Dhabi, UAR, President Bush said that Iran is threatening the security of the world, and that the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger "before it's too late."
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William Wood, US ambassador to Afghanistan, flew to Musa Qala, previously held by the Taliban in the heart of the world's largest poppy-growing region, and told with Mullah Abdul Salaam, the ex-militant commander now in charge there, that Afghans must stop "producing poison." In southern Afghanistan Taliban militants killed eight officers in an attack on a police checkpoint in Kandahar province. A suicide bomber killed another policeman and wounded eight other people when he blew himself up in a housing compound in the town of Lashkar Gah in neighboring Helmand province.
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Two young adventurers completed a 62-day paddle of more than 2,000 miles to become the first people to travel from Australia to New Zealand by kayak.
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In Chile Patricia Troncoso (39), an imprisoned Indian-rights activist who has been on a hunger strike for 93 days, was sent to a hospital because of her deteriorating condition. Troncoso, imprisoned in 2002, is serving a 10-year sentence for participating in a group that set a fire on a farm claimed by Mapuche Indian activists who say the property belonged to their ancestors.
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China took aim at price manipulators and hoarders of goods, as Beijing ramped up its campaign to rein in inflation which is running at its highest level in more than a decade. The government said it has closed more than 11,000 small coal mines as part of a two-year-old safety crackdown aimed at stemming the industry's high death toll.
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- Current / Future Events
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1995 –
Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
1989 –
Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
1989 –
Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
1987 –
Lee Seung Gi, K-pop singer
1987 –
Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 –
Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
1983 –
Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
1983 –
William Hung, American Idol contestant
1983 –
Julian Morris, English actor
1982 –
Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
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January, 13
- Births
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2009,
Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
2009,
Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
2009,
Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
2009,
Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
2008,
Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
2008,
Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2007,
Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
2007,
Danny Oakes, American racecar driver (b. 1911)
2006,
Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
2006,
Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
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January, 13
- Deaths
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