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A panel of Zimbabwe lawmakers reported that prisoners there face acute food shortages and are going weeks without soap or toilet paper.
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A roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul, killing one person and wounding two, and three oil refinery workers were shot to death near Tikrit. 8 bullet-riddled bodies were found floating near Kut, and a firefight west of Baqouba killed five civilians and wounded three. A roadside bomb near Kirkuk killed a US soldier and wounded another.
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Bosnia's war crimes court said it would deliver Serb war crimes suspect Dragan Zelenovic to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague after he was handed over to Sarajevo by Russia. Zelenovic, a former policeman, was wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for atrocities committed against non-Serbs in the eastern Foca region during the 1992-95 war. In 2007 Zelenovic was convicted of raping women in Foca and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, bowing to legal and ethical troubles, left the House of Representatives.
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In Brazil police arrested 28 people suspected of operating an illegal logging ring in the Amazon rain forest and were looking for 46 more. Some 300 officers in five states were involved in the operation to shut down a gang accused of using phony permits to harvest rare tropical hardwoods.
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In India at least five people died and six were injured when a bomb exploded in crowded marketplace in Gauhati, the main city in northeastern Assam state. Police blamed the blasts on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rebel group that has been fighting for an independent Assamese homeland since 1979.
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In Jamaica PM Portia Simpson Miller and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, the first women to be elected heads of state in Jamaica and Chile, met in Kingston and said they will remove visa restrictions on travel between Chile and Jamaica and work toward establishing air links to improve trade.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1993 –
Danielle Chuchran, American actress
1988 –
Mae Whitman, American actress and voice actress
1986 –
Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
1986 –
Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1985 –
Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1985 –
Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
1984 –
Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1984 –
Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1984 –
Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1984 –
Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
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June, 9
- Births
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2009,
Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver
2008,
Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
2007,
Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (b. 1981)
2006,
Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2004,
Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2004,
Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist (b. 1945)
2000,
Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
1997,
Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
1994,
Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1993,
Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector (b. 1950)
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June, 9
- Deaths
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