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The Cameroon government announced its first case of bird flu, becoming the fourth African country to be struck by the virus. New cases were also reported in Poland and Greece.
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In eastern Afghanistan a roadside bomb exploded as a US armored vehicle drove by, killing four American service members. In Kabul a suicide car bomb exploded into the convoy of an Afghan politician leading reconciliation efforts with the Taliban militia, injuring him and killing four other people.
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In Colombia supporters of President Alvaro Uribe dominated the congressional elections in which candidates defined themselves by their views of the Colombian leader. Voters in Sucre re-elected Alvaro Garcia to the Senate and Erik Morris to the chamber of Representatives. Both men and another senator from Sucre were later charged with financing right-wing paramilitary groups.
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El Salvador held elections. The next day the conservative ruling party claimed several victories over former leftist rebels in elections for congressional seats and mayorships across the country.
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The Iraqi Defense and Interior ministries signed an agreement requiring them to conduct all raids jointly, in a bid to stop the operations of alleged death squads masquerading as police commandos. Bomb blasts, rocket and gunfire killed over 50 people in eastern Baghdad’s Sadr City and injured over 200. Gunmen and explosions left 12 Iraqis dead elsewhere in Baghdad.
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Iran said it had ruled out a proposal to move its uranium enrichment program to Russia, further complicating the international dispute over the country's nuclear program.
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Residents of Iwakuni, a southern Japanese city, voted no in an unprecedented non-binding referendum on whether to host the relocation of an additional US naval air wing.
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FEB, 9
- 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
1985 –
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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