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Sri Lanka’s defense ministry said at least another 28 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed by security forces in overnight fighting across Sri Lanka's embattled north. Air force fighter jets pounded three suspected rebel bases in Mannar.
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Turkish troops killed 11 Kurdish rebels during clashes near the border with Iraq.
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In southern Afghanistan NATO and Afghan troops clashed with suspected insurgents, shortly before calling in an airstrike on a compound that left two militants dead.
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Australia's Muslims announced plans to form a political party to fight what they call growing Islamophobia spawned by the so-called war on terror.
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President Bush's message of goodwill in Latin America ran into a wall in Guatemala as he defended his efforts to establish a temporary worker program but gave no ground on the deportation of illegal workers.
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Peter Smith, the highest-ranking American at UNESCO, sent a letter to director Koichiro Matsuura saying that fierce opposition to his reforms and the "negative climate" forced him to quit. Smith had served as associate director general for education. French business magazine Capital recently reported that Smith, a former Republican congressman from Vermont, had awarded seven contracts worth a total of $2 million to Washington-based Navigant Consulting without proper oversight from UNESCO's Executive Board.
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A New Jersey a jury reversed an earlier verdict and hit Merck with a total of $47.5 million in damages in a Vioxx case of an Idaho postal worker. To date Merck had won 9 cases lost 5 over its former arthritis pill.
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- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
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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