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In Iraq a double suicide attack outside an agency that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines killed a prominent leader of a US-backed group fighting al-Qaida and at least five others. 12 people died in the twin bombing. In eastern Baghdad, a roadside bomb detonated near a technology university, killing four people, including a student, and wounding 11 others. In Baghdad's Jadriyah neighborhood, two roadside bombs went off minutes apart, killing one civilian and wounding four other people, including three policeman. Gunmen kidnapped 8 members of a newly-formed US-backed Shiite armed group in northern Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood.
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Police in Naples clashed with protestors over a mafia-linked rubbish disposal crisis as the Italian government convened an emergency meeting to try and resolve the row.
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Kenya's opposition leader canceled nationwide protests, saying he wanted to avoid new violence and give mediation a chance to resolve the election dispute that has killed nearly 500 people in political and ethnic bloodletting. The chief US envoy for Africa said the vote count from Kenya's election was rigged, but both parties could have been involved, declining to blame either President Mwai Kibaki or the opposition leader who ran against him.
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Kosovo's rival parties struck a power-sharing deal to form a government that is expected to declare independence from Serbia this year.
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A shootout between Mexican authorities and suspected criminals just across the border from Texas left three people dead and eight injured.
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The National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) said 6 people have died and more than 20,000 others have been displaced by Mozambique's rising waters, the worst since the deadly flooding of 2000 to 2001.
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In South Korea fire tore through a refrigeration warehouse under construction in an industrial district south of Seoul, killing 40 people and sending toxic fumes into the air.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1991 –
Max Morrow, Canadian actor
1990 –
Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990 –
Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
1990 –
Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
1990 –
Liam Aiken, American actor
1989 –
Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
1988 –
Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1988 –
Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
1987 –
Haley Bennett, American Singer and Actress
1987 –
Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
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January, 7
- Births
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2008,
Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
2007,
Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
2007,
Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
2006,
Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
2005,
Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
2005,
Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
2004,
Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
2002,
Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
2002,
Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
2000,
Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
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January, 7
- Deaths
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