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2008
A female suicide bomber in the predominantly Sunni town of Kanaan, 13 miles east of Baqouba. killed the head of a local group of Sunni fighters in who had turned against al-Qaida insurgents. A suicide bomber killed five American soldiers on a foot patrol after detonating his explosives vest in central Baghdad. Another 3 American soldiers and their interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Diyala province.
2008
In Malaysia PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was sworn in for a new 5-year term despite calls for his resignation. Malaysian stocks fell over 10% and triggered for the first time a limit-down rule established after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crises.
2008
In Mexico a researcher said satellite photographs show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve, threatening the insects' habitat. The images show illegal loggers chopped 1,100 acres of trees since 2004 in the core of a wooded park in Michoacan state.
2008
The coalition government of Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica was formally dissolved, opening the way for an early parliamentary election.
2008
Sri Lankans trickled to the polls in the turbulent eastern city of Batticaloa to vote in the first municipal elections since government forces seized control of the east last year from ethnic Tamil rebels. The Karuna Group, a pro-government militia composed of former Tamil Tiger rebels, won the election despite allegations that it used child soldiers, extorted businessmen and carried out killings.
2008
Hundreds of Tibetan exiles began a six-month march from India to Tibet to protest Beijing's hold on the Himalayan region and China's hosting of the Olympic Games. Indian police barred the Tibetan exiles from marching.
2008
A top Vatican official listed drugs, pollution, genetic manipulation and social and economic injustice as new sins.
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