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Oil closed at a record high with light, sweet crude settling at $125.96 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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In eastern Afghanistan the US-led coalition killed several militants during an operation in Nangarhar province. Villagers claimed that 3 civilians were among those killed.
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The government of Central African Republic (CAR), plagued by unrest since 2005, and the country's main rebel group signed a ceasefire and peace accord to take effect immediately.
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A newly disclosed set of documents that Colombia's government says were recovered on March 1 from a slain rebel's computers indicate senior Venezuelan officials tried to help arm Colombia's main guerrilla army. The price of crude rose above US$126 a barrel for the first time as investors questioned whether a Wall Street Journal report regarding the documents could lead to a confrontation between Washington and Venezuela.
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Dominica legislators balked at deciding who can marry whom. Chief Charles Williams, the leader of the last remaining pre-Columbian tribe in the eastern Caribbean, recently suggested outlawing marriage to outsiders to save a dwindling indigenous population.
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In Balla, India, 5 armed men killed Sunita (21), 22-weeks pregnant, and her boyfriend, Jasbir Singh (22). They were beaten, dragged into waiting cars, driven away and strangled. Their bodies, half-stripped, were laid out on the dirt outside Sunita's father's house for all to see, a sign that the family's "honor" had been restored by her cold-blooded murder. At the small police post in Balla, a constable later admitted the case was unlikely to ever reach prosecution, with the village putting enormous pressure on the police, and especially Jasbir's family, to quietly drop the case.
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Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the US-backed government in the country's worst sectarian clashes since the 15-year civil war.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1997 –
Zane Huett, American actor
1993 –
Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
1988 –
John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver
1988 –
Skye Regan, Canadian actress and writer
1985 –
Audrina Patridge, American actress
1985 –
Jake Long, American football player
1984 –
Prince Fielder, American baseball player
1983 –
Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
1983 –
Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
1983 –
Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
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May, 9
- Births
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2009,
Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
2008,
Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
2008,
Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
2007,
Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran (b. 1901)
2007,
Edith Rodriguez, hospital emergency room refused to treat (b. 1964)
2005,
Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)
2004,
Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
2004,
Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)
2003,
Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
2002,
Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
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May, 9
- Deaths
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