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The US military said US and Iraqi forces have launched operation Phantom Phoenix to strike against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists, hoping to build on a recent reduction of violence and push militants from their strongholds. The head of the municipality of Baghdad's primarily Sunni neighborhood of Yarmouk was killed when a bomb attached to his car exploded. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a checkpoint manned by police special forces in the Madain area, about 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, killing two members of the special forces and wounding five people. 3 US soldiers were killed and two wounded in an attack in Salahuddin province.
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In northern Greece a group of female protesters locked in a land dispute with the Greek Orthodox Church defied a 1,000-year-old ban and entered the all-male Mount Athos monastic sanctuary.
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Two rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel overnight, expanding the violence that has erupted on Israel's other borders ahead of President Bush's visit to the region. No injuries were reported.
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Some 60,000 tons of garbage were piled up in the streets of Naples.
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Kenya's opposition leader rejected talks with the president, describing an invitation to meet as "public relations gimmickry" that would undermine attempts to end the ethnically-charged election standoff that has killed more than 500 people.
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Nauru’s foreign minister said Australia's plans to close a much-criticized detention center for asylum seekers on Nauru will devastate its economy.
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The wife of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra was handed an arrest warrant after she returned to Thailand to face corruption charges that could put her behind bars for 20 years.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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2000 –
Noah Cyrus, American actress
1991 –
Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
1990 –
Maci Wainwright, American singer
1986 –
David Silva, Spanish footballer
1986 –
Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1986 –
Maria Ozawa, Japanese/French Canadian Pornstar
1985 –
Rachael Lampa, American singer
1984 –
Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
1983 –
Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
1983 –
Felipe Colombo, Argentine/Mexican actor and singer
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January, 8
- Births
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2009,
Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American Christian writer and editor (b. 1936)
2008,
George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
2007,
Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2007,
Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007,
Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007,
David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007,
Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
2006,
Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2005,
Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005,
Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer (b. 1954)
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January, 8
- Deaths
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