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Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal rights groups.
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It was reported that Finnish 15-year-olds have the highest level of mathematical skills, scientific knowledge and reading literacy of any rich industrialized country.
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In Haiti 17 human skulls were found in a trash-strewn wooded lot outside Port-au-Prince, including at least some discovered inside a container that had been tossed from a passing car.
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Morocco's King Mohammed VI wrapped up a 6-day visit to Western Sahara with talks on a plan to give the territory greater autonomy which will be submitted soon to the UN.
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In India PM Manmohan Singh and Iranian Vice-President Rahim Mashaee held talks in New Delhi during which they stressed the need to strengthen bilateral ties, particularly in the energy sector.
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It was reported that Indonesia was losing almost 2m hectares of forest a year, an area the size of Massachusetts or Wales. Timber stock continued to disappear at a rate of 3% a year and over the last 15 years has resulted in a loss of a third of the country’s stock.
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In Iraq more than 50 people were killed in violence, many in a gunbattle between Shiite militia forces and insurgents south of Baghdad. A bomb exploded in a booth for traffic police in north Baghdad, killing four civilians.
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- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
Alyson Michalka, American actress and singer
1989 –
Scott Sinclair, English footballer
1987 –
Jacob Bagersted, Danish handballer
1987 –
Jason Castro, American singer
1987 –
Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
1987 –
Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
1986 –
Kyle Lowry, American basketball player
1986 –
Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player
1986 –
Megan Gibson, American softball player
1984 –
Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress
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March, 25
- Births
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2009,
Marilyn Borden, American actress (b. 1932)
2009,
Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009,
Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975)
2009,
Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
2009,
Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
2008,
Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008,
Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2008,
Thierry Gilardi, French football and rugby commentator (b. 1958)
2008,
Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (b. 1929)
2007,
Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
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March, 25
- Deaths
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