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In Iraq an explosion struck an apartment building in Mosul shortly after police arrived to investigate a tip about a weapons cache inside, killing at least 38 people and injuring 225. The huge blast destroyed about 50 buildings in the Mosul slum. It was later blamed on the Seifaddin Regiment, some 150 foreign and Iraqi fighters who entered Iraq from Syria a few months earlier. A relief organization later said more than 60 people were killed and 280 wounded based on estimates from relatives who buried victims without officially registering them. Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint in central Baghdad, killing 8 soldiers and wounding two.
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Italy’s Premier Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in parliament's lower house, but his chances for success in the upper house appeared to worsen as more allies defected amid growing pressure on the center-left leader to resign.
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In Malaysia tens of thousands of ethnic Indian Malaysians gathered at the Batu Caves temple outside Kuala Lumpur to celebrate Thaipusam, one of Hinduism’s biggest festivals. In past years over a million have turned out. The reduced turnout was due to a boycott called by the Hindu rights Action Force (Hindraf), despite PM Badawi’s promise to make Thaipusam a public holiday in the capital.
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Nepal's government reversed a fuel price hike after two days of nationwide protests and clashes in the capital.
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Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings in southern New Zealand while rescuers monitored progress of 15 others toward safer waters.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians on foot and on donkey carts poured into Egypt from Gaza after masked gunmen used land mines to blast down a seven-mile barrier dividing the border town of Rafah.
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A Polish military plane carrying 20 passengers and crew crashed in flames in northwestern Poland, killing all aboard including an air force general.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
April Pearson, British actress
1987 –
Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer
1986 –
Steven Taylor, English footballer
1985 –
Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 –
Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
1984 –
Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1982 –
Patrick Levis, American actor
1982 –
Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
1981 –
Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
1981 –
Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
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January, 23
- Births
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2009,
Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
2007,
E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2007,
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2007,
Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)
2006,
Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
2005,
Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2005,
Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2004,
Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
2004,
Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2003,
Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
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January, 23
- Deaths
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