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A bomb ripped through a vegetable market in a Shiite section of Baghdad killing 38 people. A leading Sunni politician escaped an attack on his convoy as unrelenting violence pushing Iraq toward civil war.
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John Pace, the former UN human rights chief in Iraq said human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. It was reported that sectarian evictions by Sunnis and Shiites were growing in Baghdad neighborhoods
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Tommaso Onofri, a 17-month-old epileptic boy, was kidnapped from his home in Casalbaroncolo, near Parma, Italy. His body was found April 1. He was killed by blows to the head with a shovel. Suspects Mario Alessi, a construction worker, and Salvatore Raimondi have been accusing each other of killing the child shortly after the kidnapping. A woman was accused of complicity in the kidnapping.
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In Kenya masked gunmen identifying themselves as police raided the country's oldest newspaper and its sister television station, two days after three journalists were detained for a story about Kenya's president. The closures of The Standard and the Kenya Television Network, ordered by security minister John Michuki, appeared to mark the first time a Kenyan government has shut down the operations of a major media company.
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North and South Korea opened high-level military talks for the first time in almost two years, aiming to reduce tension along the world's most heavily fortified border and prevent accidental naval skirmishes.
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In Pakistan a suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Karachi, killing diplomat David Foy and 3 other people before President Bush's visit to Pakistan. Fifty-two people were wounded. An Uzbek national, arrested in Pakistan in July, told interrogators that Al-Qaeda had organized the suicide attack.
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In South Africa early results put the ruling African National Congress well ahead in local elections, despite voter unhappiness with the rate of progress in improving the lives of poor blacks.
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FEB, 9
- 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)
1985 –
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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