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Latin American and Caribbean nations unanimously endorsed Panama for a seat on the UN Security Council after Guatemala and Venezuela agreed to withdraw to break a deadlock that dragged on through 47 votes in the General Assembly.
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Leaders of more than 40 African nations converged on Beijing for a summit at which China will seek to bolster its influence on the resource-rich but economically backward continent.
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Barclays said it will to pay 144 million dollars to settle litigation arising from the collapse of US energy trading firm Enron in 2001.
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Ben Bradshaw, Britain’s Fisheries Minister, responded to a major report warning that stocks could be wiped out by 2048 by ruling out a complete ban on cod fishing. Bradshaw said that the UK had already taken action by clamping down on illegal fishing and setting fishing quotas.
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Egyptian police found more than 3,000 pounds of explosives buried in two caches in the Sinai desert, one of them near the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip.
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French conductor Paul Mauriat (81), whose arrangement of "Love is Blue" topped US charts in the 1960s, died in Perpignan, France.
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In Afghanistan NATO troops backed by warplanes launched a raid north of Kabul, hitting a compound with eight to 10 suspected Taliban fighters inside in the Tagab Valley, some 40 miles northeast of Kabul. Taliban fighters attacked a supply convoy heading to a NATO base in Khost province, killing two Pakistani drivers and wounding an Afghan driver. Gabriele Torsello, Italian photojournalist, was released after being held three weeks by abductors who demanded the withdrawal of Italian troops from the country.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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2004 –
Auckland Reactor, New Zealand standardbred racehorse
1990 –
Ellyse Perry, Australian footballer and cricketer
1989 –
Paula DeAnda, American singer
1988 –
Angus McLaren, Australian actor
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Colin Kaepernick, American football player
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Elizabeth A. Smart, American kidnapping victim
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Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
1987 –
Gemma Ward, Australian model
1986 –
Heo Young Saeng, Korean singer (SS501)
1985 –
Tyler Hansbrough, American Basketball player (North Carolina Tar Heels)
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November, 3
- Births
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2007,
Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
2007,
Aleksandr Dedyushko (b. 1962)
2007,
Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)
2006,
Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
2006,
Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
2006,
Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911)
2004,
Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
2003,
Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
2002,
Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (b. 1931)
2002,
Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
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November, 3
- Deaths
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