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US-backed Iraqi forces killed 263 militants in a daylong battle near Najaf against a group called the Jund al-Samaa, or Soldiers of Heaven. The group's leader and foreign fighters were among the dead. The US military confirmed a report that a helicopter crashed during the battle and that the two crew members were killed. Mortar shells rained down on a girls' secondary school in a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20. At least seven other people died in a series of bombings and shootings across the capital, mostly in Shiite areas. Drive-by shooters killed a high-ranking Shiite official at the Iraqi industry and mines ministry, along with his 27-year-old daughter and two other people. Two car bombs exploded within a half-hour of each other in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, killing a total of 11 people and wounding 34. US troops captured 21 suspected terrorists including an al-Qaida courier in a series of raids in Baghdad and Sunni areas north and west of the capital. At least 61 people were killed and scores wounded across Iraq. Ghanim al-Qureyshi, the provincial police chief of Diyala province, said the mayor of Baqouba and 1,500 provincial police officers have been fired in a bid to end the raging violence.
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Some 50 Nigerian rebels attacked a city centre police station in the Niger Delta and freed George Sobomabo, a top commander, arrested earlier that day. Militants released 125 inmates when they stormed the police station in Port Harcourt.
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Sinn Fein members overwhelmingly voted to begin cooperating with the Northern Ireland police, formally abandoning their decades-old hostility to legal law and order in the British territory.
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Hamas and Fatah gunmen battled each other in the streets in an increasingly bloody power struggle that left more than two dozen Palestinians dead over the weekend. Palestinian gunmen shot dead a member of a Hamas police force and a senior Fatah intelligence official was abducted in Gaza as Saudi Arabia called for talks to end the spiraling violence.
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In Somalia gunmen attacked a police station in Mogadishu, sparking an hour-long battle that killed two people just hours after two other stations were hit with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
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A 20-million US dollar FA-18 Hornet strike fighter jet was lost when it crashed during a training exercise off the Queensland coast.
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Close to 200 teams in NYC participated in the 3rd annual Idiotarod, a race of shopping carts pulled by a human team.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1991 –
Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician.
1988 –
Henry Mortensen, American actor
1986 –
Jessica Ennis, British athlete
1986 –
Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
1985 –
Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1985 –
Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
1984 –
Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1984 –
Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
1981 –
Elijah Wood, American actor
1981 –
Rick Razzano, American football player
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January, 28
- Births
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2009,
Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)
2008,
Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
2008,
Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
2007,
Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
2007,
Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
2007,
Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2007,
Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
2007,
Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2007,
Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
2006,
Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi
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January, 28
- Deaths
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