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2008
Calls to end forced marriage, domestic abuse and job discrimination marked International Women's Day as demonstrators took to the streets worldwide.
2008
Over 20 inches of snow in Columbus, Ohio, eclipsed the February 1910 record of 15.3 inches. At least 7 deaths were linked to the Midwest snowstorm.
2008
Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.
2008
In Algeria Al Qaeda's wing in north Africa said in an Internet posting that it has killed 20 Algerian soldiers and wounded 30 in clashes in its eastern stronghold, where the army has launched a campaign against the rebels.
2008
In Colombia a stadium brawl at a soccer rivalry game left about 80 people wounded in the city of Cali, 18 of them with stab wounds.
2008
India awarded Russia a 965-million-dollar contract to upgrade its multi-role MiG-29 warplanes. The two post-Cold War allies signed the deal to extend the life of India's fleet of 70 MiG-29 jets another 15 years from their current 25 years.
2008
As many as 5,000 people took to the streets in Basra, protesting deteriorating security in the southern city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December. Two separate bombings in Diyala province left six people dead. The US military said that Iraqi security forces had discovered a mass grave near Khalis in Diyala province containing perhaps 100 bodies. Police also reported that the bullet-ridden bodies of 13 men were found near the same town.
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