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American soldiers rolled into Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City slum in search of Iranian-linked militants and as many as 26 Iraqis were killed. Iraqi officials said the death toll was much lower. Residents, police and hospital officials said eight civilians were killed in their homes. In Muqdadiyah a suicide bomber blew himself up near a crowd of police recruits, killing at least 23 people and wounding 17. Fighting near the Sunni city of Ramadi left 23 insurgents dead.
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An Israeli air strike killed 3 Palestinian militants in Gaza, including an Islamic Jihad commander long sought by Israel for involvement in rocket shootings at the Jewish state.
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BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications group, agreed to a C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion) offer from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, in what the purchasers said was the largest buyout in Canadian corporate history.
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East Timor parliamentary elections got under way. The ruling Fretilin party narrowly defeated its rivals in elections, prompting the President Jose Ramos-Horta to call for a national unity coalition to avoid a collapse of the government.
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Gunmen shot dead two civilians in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula, as the government and Tamil Tigers blamed each other for the latest in a string of such killings.
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In Scotland a four-wheel-drive Jeep rammed into the main terminal at Glasgow airport and exploded in flames; the attack came a day after two cars rigged as bombs were found in London. Police arrested two men for the attack, one of them under guard in the hospital after being engulfed in flames when the Jeep crashed into the airport. The driver was later identified as Kafeel Ahmed (28), an Indian aeronautical engineer.
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Venezuela’s Pres. Chavez arrived in Iran for a two-day visit.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1991 –
Kaho, Japanese actress
1989 –
Miguel Vítor, Portuguese footballer
1986 –
Allegra Versace, Italian heiress and stakeholder of the Versace empire
1986 –
Freddy Guarín, Colombian footballer
1986 –
Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer
1986 –
Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
1985 –
Cody Runnels, American wrestler
1985 –
Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985 –
Michael Phelps, American swimmer
1985 –
Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
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June, 30
- Births
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2007,
Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2006,
Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2004,
Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer (b. 1924)
2003,
Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003,
Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
2002,
Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2001,
Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001,
Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
1997,
Larry O'Day, Australian wrestler (b. 1944)
1995,
Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
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June, 30
- Deaths
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