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A bomb exploded at the entrance to a recreation park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 foreign tourists.
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A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for peace talks and give the militants a position in government. Four employees with the International Committee of the Red Cross, kidnapped earlier this week while negotiating the release of a German hostage, were freed in good health. Afghan insurgents ambushed a convoy of foreign troops in eastern Paktia province. After a brief gunbattle, airstrikes were called in that killed 11 militants. 3 Afghan civilians were killed during the clash of NATO-led forces with Taliban insurgents in Paktia. Another battle in Paktia between police and militants left one suspected insurgent dead. In neighboring Ghazni province, coalition forces fought with insurgents, killing two Taliban in Andar district. Police in Kandahar city discovered a landmine that exploded while they were trying to defuse it, killing two police.
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Egypt’s government and the striking workers in Mahalla el-Kobra announced a deal ending the textile worker’s strike after officials agreed to demands for three months' worth of profit-sharing bonuses.
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In southeastern Turkey Kurdish rebels ambushed a minibus carrying pro-government village guards and civilians and killed 12 people.
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In southern Japan more than 100,000 people protested against the central government's order to modify school textbooks which say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II.
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In Sudan a large force of rebels stormed an African Union peacekeeping base in Haskanita, Darfur, killing at least a dozen soldiers and wounding several others in the biggest attack on the mission so far. More than 50 AU peacekeepers and support personnel were missing in action.
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Iran's parliament voted to designate the CIA and the US Army as "terrorist organizations," a largely symbolic response to a US Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
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- Current / Future Events
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2008 –
Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family
1999 –
Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
1988 –
Justin Nozuka, singer/songwriter
1988 –
Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1987 –
Josh Farro, American guitarist for Paramore, Hillary Duff, American pop singer and actress
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Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
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Craig Glynn FRANCE
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Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player.
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Michael Ray Garvin Wide-receiver for the Arizona Cardinals
1984 –
Per Mertesacker, German footballer
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September, 29
- Births
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2007,
Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
2006,
Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1981)
2006,
Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2006,
Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2006,
Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
2006,
Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2005,
Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
2004,
Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
2002,
Edmund Trebus, English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
2001,
Nguy?n Van Thi?u, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
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September, 29
- Deaths
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