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Iraq's deputy prime minister, a Sunni who crossed the country's sectarian divide to join the Shiite-led government, was wounded in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the court-yard of his home. Nine people were killed. A US soldier on a foot patrol was killed by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad.
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A human rights group said Kenya has deported more than 100 people from 19 countries to Somalia after they crossed the border between the two countries illegally during fighting earlier this year, and the deportees were subsequently arrested by Ethiopian troops.
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Maoist demonstrators displayed the bodies of 25 slain activists in open trucks to protest their killings in Nepal's restive south. Thousands demonstrated on the streets of the capital Katmandu two days after a fierce battle between the former communist rebels and sup-porters of an ethnic rights organization left 28 dead and more than 30 wounded in the town of Gaur.
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In Pakistan Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai, the North West Frontier Province governor, said clashes between Pakistani tribesmen and foreign militants near the Afghan bor-der this week have left up to 160 people dead, including about 130 Uzbek and Chechen fight-ers. Officials said warring tribesmen and foreign Al-Qaeda militants have agreed to a ceasefire after four days of bloodshed in the border region.
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In Somalia a cargo plane was shot down by a missile during takeoff died. Ten of the crew died in the crash. Rescuers found a wounded crew member and took him to a Moga-dishu hospital where he died while being treated. All crew members were either Ukrainian or Belarussian. Egi Azarian, acting head of Belarus-based Transaviaexport, confirmed that the company's plane was shot down.
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Sri Lankan troops advanced into territory held by Tamil Tiger rebels, shifting the battle lines to the island's north where the latest death toll on both sides hit 37.
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The United Nations said nearly 800 people have died after a meningitis epi-demic spread from Burkina Faso to eight other western African countries since the start of the year. Benin, Chad, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Togo have also been affected to differing degrees.
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- Current / Future Events
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1995 –
Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
1990 –
Princess Eugenie of York
1986 –
Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
1986 –
Steven Strait, American actor
1985 –
Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
1983 –
Jerome Thomas, English footballer
1982 –
José Raúl Contreras, Chilean footballer
1981 –
Erin Crocker, American race car driver
1981 –
Luciana Carro, Canadian actress
1981 –
Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
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March, 23
- Births
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2009,
Raúl Macías, A famous Mexican boxer (b. 1934)
2007,
Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
2007,
Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer (b. 1973)
2006,
David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2006,
Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
2006,
Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
2004,
Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2003,
Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
2002,
Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
2002,
Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
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March, 23
- Deaths
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