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African Union commission chief Alpha Oumar Konare urged Guinea's President Lansana Conte to step down as he voiced solidarity with recent protests against the veteran leader.
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in Austria a helicopter and a small plane collided in the air and crashed near a ski slope, killing all eight people aboard the two aircraft.
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In Brazil Bishop Ivo Lorscheiter
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In Cambodia PM Hun Sen publicly rebuked members in the upper ranks of his Cambodian People’s Party for dodgy land deals as small farmers and slum-dwellers fell victim to land-grabbing.
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In Copenhagen, Denmark, demolition crews started tearing down a graffiti-sprayed brick building, prompting tears and cries of protest from youths whose eviction from the makeshift cultural center led to three nights of rioting. The Youth House served since 1982 as a popular cultural center for anarchists, punk rockers and left-wing groups. The squatters considered it free public housing, but courts ordered them out after the city sold the building to a Christian congregation. Ruth Evensen, leader of the small congregation that bought the Youth House in 2001
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Badri Patarkatsishvili, one of the most famous Georgian oligarchs, left Georgia. His departure was announced in London as the relocation of his activities of "Georgia in the West," underscoring the desire to leave the country definitively. The millionaire, who holds first-rank influence in both finances and the media, co-holds one of the most important Georgian media concerns, Imedi, which includes a radio station and a television station.
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FEB, 9
- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
Jake Lloyd, American actor
1989 –
Sterling Knight, American actor
1988 –
Bjarni Vi?arsson, Icelandic footballer
1988 –
Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1987 –
Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1986 –
Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1985 –
Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 –
Whitney Port, American reality TV star
1984 –
Ryan Crowley, Australian rules footballer
1982 –
Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
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March, 5
- Births
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2008,
Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b. 1923)
2006,
Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
2004,
Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2000,
Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. 1962)
1999,
Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
1997,
Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
1996,
Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
1995,
Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
1995,
Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1993,
Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
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March, 5
- Deaths
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