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In eastern Sri Lanka suspected separatist Tamil rebels detonated a roadside bomb, killing six policemen and one civilian.
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British counterterrorism police arrested nine men in an alleged kidnapping plot. The plan reportedly involved torturing and beheading a British Muslim soldier and broadcasting the killing on the Internet.
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Canada's former Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas released a report saying China's military is harvesting organs from prison inmates, mostly Falungong practitioners, for large scale transplants including for foreign recipients.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Cameroon to begin his second African tour to boost ties with a continent that has many of the oil and commodity reserves the Asian giant needs for its ballooning economy.
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In Congo at least 37 people were killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters protesting against the results of governorship polls in western Bas-Congo province.
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Tata Steel said its $11.3 billion offer to acquire European steel maker Corus (formerly British Steel) is strategic to its global ambitions, even as the winning bid raised concerns that the deal's high cost could undermine the combined company's financial health.
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A series of car bombs struck mostly Shiite areas in Baghdad, killing eight people, while a mortar attack on a Sunni neighborhood killed four in more retaliatory sectarian violence. The bodies of three Sunni professors and a student also turned up in the morgue, three days after they were abducted by gunmen from a law school in a predominantly Shiite area in northern Baghdad. A suicide bomber driving an oil truck blew himself up after he was stopped at a checkpoint near an Iraqi army headquarters north of Baghdad, wounding 9 soldiers. A parked car bomb also struck a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul killing one policeman and wounding two others. In the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi at least eight bodies were found with their hands and legs bound and showing signs of torture.
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- Current / Future Events
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877 –
Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 943)
1990 –
Kota Yabu, Japanese actor and singer
1986 –
Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian football goalkeeper
1985 –
Adam Federici, Australian footballer
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Mario Williams, NFL player
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Jeremy Wariner, American 400m runner
1984 –
Vernon Davis, NFL player
1983 –
James Sutton, British television actor
1983 –
Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer
1982 –
Allan McGregor, Scottish football player
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January, 31
- Births
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2009,
Nagesh, Indian comedian actor in Kollywood (b. 1933)
2008,
Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug dog (b. 1997)
2007,
Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
2007,
Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
2007,
Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
2007,
Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
2006,
Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
2004,
Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
2002,
Francis Gabreski, American, fighter pilot ace (b. 1919)
2001,
Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
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January, 31
- Deaths
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