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Britain and Russia traded threats and recrimination as a diplomatic feud over the role of the British government's cultural arm worsened.
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The Canadian government fired the country's top nuclear watchdog, criticizing her for how she handled the closure of a key reactor which makes medical radioisotopes.
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Finland's Nokia, the top global mobile phone manufacturer, said that it planned to close a factory in Germany by mid-year which employs 2,300 workers.
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The French government announced during a visit by Pres. Sarkozy that it will set up a permanent military base of up to 500 troops in the United Arab Emirates.
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In Georgia tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Tbilisi, pressing for a presidential runoff but celebrating an agreement giving the opposition more control over the main state-funded television station.
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India confirmed a bird flu outbreak among poultry following the death of thousands of chickens in the past week in the state of West Bengal. A train collided with a packed auto rickshaw in eastern India, killing nine people and injuring two.
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In Iraq 5 school children were killed after being struck by a car in the convoy of a top judicial official during a chaotic gunbattle with checkpoint guards in Baghdad.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Chris Warren Jr., American actor
1990 –
Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
1989 –
Alexei Cherepanov, Russian hockey player (d. 2008)
1989 –
Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer
1988 –
Sonny Moore, American musician From First to Last
1987 –
Aria C Jalali, American musician
1987 –
David Knight, English footballer
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Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
1987 –
Kelly Kelly, American WWE Diva
1987 –
Michael Seater, Canadian actor
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January, 15
- Births
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2008,
Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008,
Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
2007,
Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007,
James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
2007,
Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2007,
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
2007,
David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007,
Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2006,
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2005,
Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
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January, 15
- Deaths
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