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China demanded the United States scrap a planned sale of hundreds of missiles to Taiwan, warning the deal would harm regional stability and bilateral ties.
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In Colombia prosecutors ordered the arrest of Alvaro Araujo Noguera, a prominent political boss, for alleged involvement in a kidnapping at the heart of a scandal tying the country’s political elite to right-wing paramilitary groups.
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An al-Qaida-linked Sunni group said that it kidnapped 18 government workers and soldiers in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police force. Hours later, the government said the bodies of 14 security officers had been found. In Baghdad, a pair of car bombs killed 11 people in separate attacks.
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In Italy Premier Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament, formally ending Italy's political crisis.
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Moammar Gadhafi said in an unusual debate that it was time for his long-isolated nation to open up to the world and that one day Libya won't need him as leader. Still, he insisted that the ruling ideology he has entrenched here for three decades is superior to Western democracy.
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In Morocco 12 Islamic militants were convicted of terrorism-related charges, including eight with alleged ties to al-Qaida who had volunteered to fight in Iraq.
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- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
Marc Donato, Canadian actor
1988 –
Keith Jack, British singer and actor
1988 –
Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
1988 –
Nadine Samonte, Filipino actress
1985 –
Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
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Reggie Bush, American football player
1985 –
Robert Iler, American actor
1984 –
Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress
1983 –
Glen Perkins, American baseball player
1983 –
Jay McClement, Canadian ice hockey player
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March, 2
- Births
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2009,
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
2009,
Chris Finnegan, British Olympic Boxing Gold Medallist (b. 1944)
2008,
Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
2007,
Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
2007,
Clem Labine, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007,
Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
2007,
Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
2006,
Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
2006,
Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
2005,
Rick Mahler, American baseball player (b. 1953)
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March, 2
- Deaths
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