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US-led forces in Afghanistan fired a missile into Pakistan that killed 4 women and 2 boys. Pakistan lodged a protest the next day with coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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In Australia police said a quarter-ton of cocaine with a street value of more than 80 million US dollars has been seized after being shipped in from Southeast Asia.
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In Austria a dispute began with the opening of "Religion, Flesh and Power," a collection of about 50 paintings, drawings and sculptures, some with homo-erotic themes, by Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka
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Human Rights Watch said in a report that the armies of migrant workers building Beijing's skyscrapers and Olympic venues are being bilked of wages and placed in dangerous conditions. China's foreign minister said Human rights groups that cite the Beijing Games in their criticisms of the Chinese government are violating the Olympic charter.
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In Iraq coalition soldiers killed a young Iraqi girl after firing a warning shot at a woman who "appeared to be signaling to someone" along a road where several bombs had recently been found. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was found dead near the city of Mosul, where he was kidnapped last month. 3 US soldiers died in a rocket attack on Combat Outpost Adder near Nasiriyah.
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Gaza's Hamas prime minister publicly set his conditions for a cease-fire with Israel to end the fighting that has killed dozens in recent weeks. Ismail Haniyeh demanded an end to Israeli military activity in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a lifting of Israeli economic sanctions and the opening of Gaza's borders. Hours later Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Israeli troops riding in a taxi van pulled up behind the militants' parked Daihatsu and began shooting immediately.
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A UN tribunal extended the sentence of Rwandan Roman Catholic priest Athanase Serombawar to life in prison after upholding his war crimes conviction for ordering militiamen to burn and bulldoze a church with 1,500 people inside during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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- Current / Future Events
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Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
1987 –
Chris Seitz, American footballer
1986 –
Ben Offereins, Australian athlete
1986 –
Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
1985 –
Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
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Tosh Townend, American skateboarder
1984 –
Jaimie Alexander, American actress
1984 –
Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1983 –
Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer
1982 –
Samm Levine, American actor
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March, 12
- Births
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2008,
Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer and media host (b. 1949)
2008,
Lazare Ponticelli, French soldier (b. 1897)
2006,
Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
2005,
Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
2005,
Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
2003,
Zoran Dindic, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2003,
Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
2003,
Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
2003,
Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2002,
Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
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March, 12
- Deaths
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