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Canada announced it will spend $25 million to protect, the Great Bear Rainforest, a 16-million-acre preserve that stretches 250 miles along British Columbia's rugged Pacific coastline, one of the largest intact temperate rainforests left in the world.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Pres. Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi for talks set to focus on securing guarantees for energy supplies to the EU. Putin promised to smooth energy flow to Europe.
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Embattled Guinean President Lansana Conte called on his country's armed forces to stand united in the face of a crippling general strike that has claimed 10 lives as pressure mounted for him to resign. The African Union called on Pres. Conte to pursue talks with trade union leaders to ease a 12-day-old strike.
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In India at least one person was killed and eight wounded in two separate explosions in the insurgency-hit northeastern state of Assam.
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A major 6.5-magnitude undersea earthquake has rocked Indonesia's northern Sulawesi province. The earthquake left four people dead and four injured.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc announced it is lifting its political boycott, some seven weeks after it began to protest the Iraqi prime minister's summit with President Bush. A bomb struck a small bus in Baghdad as it headed to a predominantly Shiite area, killing six passengers and wounding 10. Two US Marines were killed in separate attacks in the Anbar province. Another US soldier was killed in fighting south of Baghdad.
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Islamic Jihad militants launched homemade rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Israel's continuing military operations against their group in the West Bank.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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2004 –
Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
2001 –
Jackson Brundage, American Actor
1994 –
Laura Robson, Tennis Player
1990 –
Jacob Smith, American actor
1988 –
William Johansson, Swedish composer
1987 –
Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1985 –
Adrian Lewis, English Dart Player
1985 –
Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 –
Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1985 –
Sasha Pivovarova, Russian Model
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January, 21
- Births
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2008,
Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2008,
Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2007,
Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
2007,
U;Nee, Korean pop artist (b. 1981)
2006,
Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2006,
Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2005,
Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
2005,
John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2005,
Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)
2004,
Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
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January, 21
- Deaths
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