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A suicide bomber killed Brig. Gen. Salah Mohammed al-Jubouri, the director of police for Ninevah province, and two other officers after they toured the site of the wreckage of a blast a day earlier that devastated a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in the northern city of Mosul. A roadside bomb also struck a police patrol in central Baghdad, killing two officers and injuring two, along with 3 civilians. In Karbala a roadside bomb targeted a senior aide of Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The aide, Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai, escaped with a wound to the arm, but two of his bodyguards were killed and two were wounded.
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A top Israeli defense official said that Israel wants to relinquish all responsibility for the Gaza Strip, including the supply of electricity and water, now that the territory's southern border with Egypt has been opened.
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In Italy Premier Romano Prodi resigned after the Senate voted 161-156 to sink his 20-month-old center-left coalition in a fiery session in which one senator was spat on, fainted and was carried out on a stretcher.
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Japan's national police, facing allegations that officers regularly squeeze confessions from suspects with abuse, issued guidelines for the first time setting limits on how far they can go in questioning sessions.
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In Kenya Pres. Kibaki and Opposition leader Odinga talked for the first time since the election, but the president angered the opposition by insisting after the hour-long meeting, mediated by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, that his position as head of state was not negotiable.
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Pakistani troops backed by tanks and gunships cleared militant hideouts near the Afghan border in a major offensive that left ten soldiers and 40 rebels dead.
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In Sri Lanka 16 victims of what appeared to have been execution-style killings were found by villagers in a district 206 km (130 miles) north of the capital Colombo.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1988 –
Jade Ewen, English singer
1986 –
Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 –
Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
1984 –
Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 –
Witold Kieltyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1983 –
Scott Speed, American race car driver
1983 –
Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1981 –
Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1980 –
Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1980 –
Rocky Boiman, American football player
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January, 24
- Births
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2009,
Reg Gutteridge, British Boxing Journalist (b. 1924)
2009,
Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
2009,
Gérard Blanc, French singer
2008,
Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
2007,
Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007,
Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007,
Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
2006,
Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2006,
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (b. 1930)
2006,
Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
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January, 24
- Deaths
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