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The Iraqi Ministry of Justice said it would release 5 of 8 female detainees as part of a larger release program. Police in Baghdad reported the discovery of 10 blindfolded men in water-holding tanks at a sewage treatment facility. Insurgents in Kirkuk killed 2 city officials.
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Kamal Said Qadir (48), an Austrian citizen sentenced by a court in northern Iraq to 25 years in prison last month after being convicted of dishonoring the Kurdish cause, was released from custody. After moving to Austria a few years ago, he wrote articles that accused the powerful Kurdistan Democratic Party of corruption.
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In Iraq a US soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb blast south of Baghdad, while three Iraqi police died in a similar attack.
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Iraqi police shot dead a Sunni cleric at a checkpoint north of Baghdad. Gunmen killed a policeman in the capital's Sadr City neighborhood.
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The UN said that thousands of refugees were without help after riots forced it to curtail operations in Ivory Coast.
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A minibus struck a land mine in southwestern Pakistan, killing six passengers and wounding five.
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Sri Lanka's president and the leader of Tamil Tiger rebels agreed on to resume peace talks.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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750 –
Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (d. 780)
1991 –
Jason Dolley, Actor
1989 –
Sheryfa Luna, French singer
1988 –
Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
1987 –
Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
1986 –
Chris O'Grady, English footballer
1986 –
Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1985 –
Acie Law IV, National Basketball Association player
1985 –
Patrick Willis, American Football Linebacker
1985 –
Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
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January, 25
- Births
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2009,
Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
2008,
Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
2008,
Evelyn Barbirolli, English musician (b. 1911)
2006,
Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
2005,
Stanislaw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005,
William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
2005,
Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2005,
Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
2005,
Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2005,
Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
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January, 25
- Deaths
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