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Feb 10, St. Paul is believed to have been shipwrecked near Malta
while enroute to Rome for trial for practicing Catholicism. The
story is told in the Bible’s New Testament Acts of the Apostles,
chapter 27. The event is marked in Malta every February 10. St. Paul
lived for two months in Rabat, when he was among 75 people
shipwrecked.
   (WSJ, 6/21/08, p.W8)(Reuters, 4/3/22)
1098Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Crusaders defeated
Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1258Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Huegu (Hulega
Khan), a Mongol leader and grandson of Genghis Khan, seized Baghdad
following a 4-day assault. Mongol invaders from Central Asia took
over Baghdad and ended the Abbasid-Seljuk Empire. They included
Uzbeks, Kazaks, Georgians and other groups. Some 200 to 800 thousand
people were killed and looting lasted 17 days.
   (ATC, p.91)(AP, 2/10/99)(SFC, 4/12/03, p.A1)
1324Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The pope
officially chastised the Knights of the Cross for ill treatment of
Catholics and for pushing pagans away from Christianity.
   (LHC, 2/10/03)
1535Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, 12 nude
Anabaptists ran through the streets of Amsterdam. [see 1534]
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1609Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, John Suckling,
English Cavalier poet, dramatist, courtier, was born.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1620Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Supporters of
Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who had been exiled to Blois,
were defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
   (AP, 2/10/99)
1670Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, William Congreve,
English writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World), was born.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1676Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In King Philip’s
War Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians raided Lancaster, Mass. Over 35
villagers were killed and 24 were taken captive including Mary
Rowlandson (1637-1711) and her 3 children. Rowlandson was freed
after 11 weeks and an account of her captivity was published
posthumously in 1682.
   (AH, 6/02, p.48)(Econ, 2/21/09,
p.83)(http://tinyurl.com/cvrhcv)
1720Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Edmund Halley was
appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1722Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Black Bart
(b.1682), Welsh pirate, died. He raided shipping off the Americas
and West Africa between 1719 and 1722.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Roberts)
1728Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Peter III
Fyodorovich (d.1762), czar of Russia (1761-62), was born in Germany.
He married Catherine, who succeeded him following a coup. [see Feb
21]
   (WUD, 1994 p.1077)(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A18)(MC,
2/10/02)
1763Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Britain, Spain and
France signed the Treaty of Paris ending the French-Indian War.
France ceded Canada to England and gave up all her territories in
the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands. France
retained the sugar colonies of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
   (HN, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/08)(SSFC,
7/6/14, p.L5)
1772Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Louis Tocque (75),
French painter, died.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1774Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Andrew Becker
demonstrated a diving suit.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1775Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Charles Lamb
(d.1834), critic, poet, essayist, was born in London, England. "No
one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. It is the
nativity of our common Adam."
   (AP, 12/31/97)(MC, 2/10/02)
1779Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A shootout at
Carr's Fort in Georgia turned back men sent to Wilkes County to
recruit colonists loyal to the British army. In 2012 archeologists
located the site.
   (AP, 5/6/13)
1794Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Joseph Haydn’s
99th Symphony in E, premiered.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1799Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Napoleon Bonaparte
left Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.
   (AP, 2/10/99)
1814Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Napoleon
personally directed lightning strikes against enemy columns
advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians
at Champaubert. During the Napoleonic Wars a British naval officer
proposed the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare to
undermine the strength of Emperor Napoleon.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1824Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Simon Bolivar was
named President by the Congress of Peru.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1840Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Britain's Queen
Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
   (HN, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/97)
1841Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Upper Canada and
Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by
the British Parliament.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
1846Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Led by religious
leader Brigham Young, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, began an exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to
Utah.
   (AP, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/99)
1846Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, British General
Sir Hugh Gough decisively routed Tej Singh’s Sikhs in the Battle of
Sobraon.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1855Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, US citizenship
laws were amended to include all children of US parents born abroad.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1863Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, P.T. Barnum’s star
midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, were married.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1864Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Konstanty
Kalinowski, the last Lithuanian provincial rebel leader, was
captured. He was hanged a month later.
   (LHC, 2/10/03)
1878Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Peter
Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony in F, premiered.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1878Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Cuba’s 10 year war
with Spain ended with the signing of the pact of Zanjon. The
nationalist uprising failed.
   (WSJ, 9/12/08,
p.W6)(www.cubagen.org/mil/war-hist.htm)
1879Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The 1st electric
arc light was used in a California Theater. The first electric arc
lights were installed in Cleveland in this year. Some women
complained that the white light blanched their complexions in a most
ghastly manner.
   (MC, 2/10/02)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.B5)
1890Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Boris Pasternak
(d.1960), Russian novelist and author, was born. His greatest novel,
Dr. Zhivago, was rejected for publication in the USSR “No single man
makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass
growing.” [OS][see Feb 18]
   (AP, 10/6/98)(HN, 2/10/99)
1890Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Around 11 million
acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians, opened for settlement.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1893Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Jimmy Durante,
‘Schnozzel,’ American comedian and film actor, was born in NYC. “Be
nice to people on the way up. They’re the same people you’ll pass on
the way down.”
   (HN, 2/10/99)(AP, 2/10/01)(MC, 2/10/02)
1894Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Harold MacMillan,
British prime minister from 1957 to 1963, was born.
   (HN, 2/10/97)(HN, 2/10/99)
1897Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, John F. Enders,
virologist, was born.
   (HN, 2/10/01)
1898Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Bertolt Brecht,
German poet and dramatist, was born. He is best remembered for his
plays “Three Penny Opera” and “Mother Courage. “
   (HN, 2/10/99)
1901Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Stella Adler,
actress and teacher, was born.
   (HN, 2/10/01)
1902Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Walter Brattain,
physicist, was born. He became one of the inventors of the
transistor.
   (HN, 2/10/01)
1904Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Russia and Japan
declared war on each other.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1906Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Britain's 1st
modern and largest battleship, the "HMS Dreadnought," was launched.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1910Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Dominique Georges
Pire, Belgian cleric and educator, was born.
   (HN, 2/10/01)
1912Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Dr. Joseph Lister,
founder of sterile technique in surgical practice, died at age 85.
In 1917 Sir Rickman John Godlee authored “Lord Lister.”
   (ON, 7/00, p.9)
1914Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Larry Adler,
harmonica virtuoso, was born.
   (HN, 2/10/01)
1915Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, President Wilson
blasted the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to
deceive the Germans. He also warned the Kaiser that he would hold
Germany "to a strict accountability" for U.S. lives and property
endangered. In Europe [Lithuania], the Germans encircled and
captured 100,000 Russians near Nieman River. When the United States
entered World War I, propagandist George Creel set out to stifle
anti-war sentiment.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1920Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Alex Comfort,
English physician and author, was born. His books included “Joy of
Sex.”
   (HN, 2/10/01)
1922Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Harold Hughes,
Governor of New Jersey, was born.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1923Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Cesare Siepi,
basso (NY Metropolitan Opera), was born in Milan, Italy.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1923Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Wilhelm Konrad von
Röntgen (77), physicist (Nobel 1901), died. In 1971 Robert W. Nitske
authored “The Life of Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen: Discoverer of the X
Ray.”
   (ON, 11/04, p.8)
1925Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Poland made an
accord with the Vatican and the archdiocese of Vilnius was revived
as one of 5 Polish dioceses.
   (LHC, 2/10/03)
1927Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, (Mary Violet)
Leontyne Price, opera singer, was born.
   (HN, 2/10/01)
1931Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, New Delhi became
the capital of India. [see Mar 26]
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1933Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The first singing
telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Company in New York.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1934Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An Admiral Byrd
souvenir stamp sheet was issued, NYC. It was the 1st unperforated
ungummed US stamp.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1934Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Jewish immigrant
ship 1st broke the English blockade in Palestine.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1935Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Pennsylvania RR
began passenger service with new electric locomotive.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1939Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Pope Pius XI died
in Rome. He was born in Desio, Italy, as Ambrogio Damiano Achille
Ratti. In 2014 David I. Kertzer authored The Pope and Mussolini: The
Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.”
   (www.nndb.com/people/327/000088063/)(SSFC,
2/9/14, p.F5)
1939Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Japan occupied the
Chinese island of Hainan located off the coast of French
Indochina (modern day Vietnam).
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1940Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, "In The Mood" by
Glenn Miller hit #1.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1941Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, London severed
diplomatic relations with Romania. Romania's indigenous fighter, the
IAR 80, saw service in defense of its homeland and against the
Soviets.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1941Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Iceland was
attacked by German planes.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, RCA Victor
presented Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with a "gold record" for
their recording of "Chattanooga Choo Choo," which had sold more than
1 million copies.
   (AP, 2/10/99)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The war halted
civilian car production at Ford. Henry Ford opposed America's entry
into World War II until the attack on Pearl Harbor, which inspired
him to begin an all-out effort to manufacture planes and vehicles
for the war effort.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The former French
liner Normandie capsized in New York Harbor a day after it caught
fire while being refitted for the U.S. Navy.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, "Rum & Coca
Cola" by the Andrews Sisters hit #1.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, B-29s hit the
Tokyo area. It was a B-29 that dropped the bomb that ended World War
II.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1949Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Arthur Miller's
play "Death of a Salesman" opened at Broadway's Morosco Theater with
Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman. The play depicting the false dreams of
Willy Loman won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
   (WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-12)(WSJ, 5/13/96, p. A-16)(AP,
2/10/08)
1949Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Elections in
Northern Ireland showed that at least 2/3 of the population favored
continued union with Great Britain.
   (EWH, 1968, p.1166)
1950Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Mark Spitz,
Modesto Calif, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68,72), was born.
   (www.thisdaythatyear.com/feb/people10.htm)
1951Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, "John &
Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaked at #21.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1954Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Eisenhower warned
against US intervention in Vietnam.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1955Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Bell Aircraft
displayed a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane. An ingenious blend of
airplane and helicopter features, the Fairey Rotodyne was a case of
almost--but not quite enough.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1957Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Laura Ingalls
Wilder (b.1867) died in Mansfield, Missouri. She is known for
writing the “Little House on the Prairie” series of children’s books
released from 1932 to 1943 that focused on a settler and pioneer
family and were drawn from the author’s childhood experiences.
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder)
1960Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, "Unsinkable Molly
Brown" ended at Winter Garden, NYC, after 532 performances.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1960Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Adolph Coors, the
beer brewer, was kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1961Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Niagara Falls
hydroelectric project began producing power.
   (MC, 2/10/02)
1962Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Soviet Union
exchanged captured American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph
Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1966Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Protester David
Miller was convicted of burning his draft card.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1967Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The 25th Amendment
to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and
succession, went into effect as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.
   (HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 2/10/08)
1968Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Peggy Fleming of
the United States won the gold medal in women's figure skating at
the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1971Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The play "The
House of Blue Leaves" by John Guare (b.1938), American playwright,
opened off Broadway.
   (SFEC, 5/30/99, DB
p.37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Blue_Leaves)
1971Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Combat
photographers Henri Huet of AP, Kent Potter of UPI, Larry Burrows
(b.1926) of Life Magazine and Keisaburo Shimamato of Newsweek were
killed in a helicopter crash over Laos. In 2003 Richard Pyle and
Horst Faas authored "Lost Over Laos: A True Story of Tragedy,
Mystery and Friendship."
   (WSJ, 5/22/98,
p.W12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Burrows)(SSFC, 3/23/03,
p.M5)
1979Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Metropolitan
Museum announced the first major theft in 110-year history, $150,000
Greek marble head.
   (HN, 2/10/97)
1981Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Eight people were
killed, 198 injured, when fire broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton
hotel-casino.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1984 Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Kevin Andrew
Collins (9) was abducted from a SF street corner. The child’s
picture was among the 1st to appear on milk cartons across the
country. By 2007 Kevin's whereabouts were still unknown, and there
were no new leads in the 23 year-old case. The strain of Kevin's
disappearance and the search for their son eventually led Kevin’s
parents, David and Ann Collins, to divorce. Suspect Dan Therrien
(51) died in 2008.
  Â
(www.crimeandjustice.us/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t26.html)(SFC,
2/10/06, p.B6)(SFC, 2/7/13, p.A9)
1986 Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Darien, Conn.,
Alex Kelly (18) raped 16-year-old Adrienne Bak Ortolano. Four days
later he raped another girl. While preparing for trial after he was
arrested and out on bail, Kelly fled the country and eluded charges
for 8 years. Kelly stayed in Europe for nearly 10 years, presumably
financed by his parents. In 1995, he was captured in Switzerland and
extradited back to the United States to face trial. He faced two
criminal trials in 1997. The first trial resulted in a mistrial. In
the second trial he was convicted of the first rape and sentenced to
18 years in jail. He pleaded no contest to the second rape charge.
His next parole hearing is scheduled in 2008, conditional on good
behavior.
   (SFC,12/22/97,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Andrew_Kelly)
1986       Feb 10, The largest
Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opened in Palermo,
Italy. The trial ended on December 16, 1987, almost two years after
it commenced. Of the 474 defendants, both those present and those
tried in absentia, 360 were convicted. 2,665 years of prison
sentences were shared out between the guilty, not including the life
sentences. A total of 114 defendants were acquitted.
   (HN, 2/10/97)(www.answers.com/topic/maxi-trial)
1986Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Haiti a
provisional government, headed by Namphy, named a 19-member Cabinet.
It dissolved the Assembly and Tonton Macoutes, reopened schools,
freed political prisoners, and sought to recover Duvaliers' assets.
US aid resumed after being halted because of Duvalier abuses.
   (AP, 1/17/11)
1988Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A 3-judge panel of
the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the
Army's ban on homosexuals, saying gays were entitled to the same
protection against discrimination as racial minorities. The ruling
was later set aside by the full appeals court.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Ron Brown was
elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the
first black to head a major U.S. political party.
   (AP, 2/10/99)
1990Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Indonesia Mount
Kelud erupted. Some 33 post eruption lahars took place from Feb
15-mar28 and more than 30 people were killed with hundreds injured.
   (AP,
11/3/07)(www.springerlink.com/content/x7d7qvad0ct3c9bf/)
1990Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, South African
President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela
would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
   (AP, 2/10/00)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In a broadcast on
Baghdad Radio, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein praised his countrymen
for withstanding attacks by allied warplanes and rockets.
   (AP, 2/10/01)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Bonnie Blair of
the United States won the women's 500-meter speed skating
competition at the Albertville Olympics.
   (AP, 2/10/02)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In the Iowa caucus
favorite son Tom Harkin won with 76% of the vote. The rest went to
“Uncommitted” (12%), Paul Tsongas (4%), Bill Clinton (3%), Bob
Kerrey (2%), and Jerry Brown (2%). Clinton ended up winning the
Democratic nomination and the presidency.
   (http://correntewire.com/post_iowa_perspective)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Boxer Mike Tyson
was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss
Black America contestant.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Alex Haley, author
of “Roots” and co-writer of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” died
in Seattle at age 70. Much of his work was donated to the Univ. of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
   (SFC, 12/6/96, p.C15)(AP, 2/10/97)
1993Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Clinton
administration said U.S. troops could be sent to enforce peace in
former Yugoslavia provided warring factions there negotiated a
settlement.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US Senate
approved $8.6 billion in relief for victims of the Jan 17 Los
Angeles earthquake. The House approved the measure the next day, and
President Clinton signed it the day after that.
   (AP, 2/10/99)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Jeannie Flynn
(b.1966)), the first female combat pilot in the US Air Force,
finished flight training in the F-15.
   (http://tinyurl.com/n5ehhg)(NPub, 2002, p.26)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The House passed a
GOP crime bill boosting funding for state prisons but requiring
states to get tougher on violent criminals before they could receive
any money.
   (AP, 2/10/00)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, President Clinton
signed a $265 billion defense bill, but said he would battle for
repeal of a section forcing the discharge of service members with
the AIDS virus.
   (AP, 2/10/01)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, World chess
champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in
Philadelphia against an I-B-M computer dubbed “Deep Blue.”
   (AP, 2/10/01)
1996      Feb 10, In Algeria
two car bombs killed 17 and wounded 93 in the capital.
   (WSJ, 2/12/96, p.A-1)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A slab of
mountainside crushed a highway tunnel on the Japanese island of
Hokkaido, killing 20 people.
   (AP, 2/10/01)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The 5th annual
ESPY Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall, NYC. The Awards were
created by ESPN in 1993 and are given for Excellence in Sports
Performance.
   (http://espn.go.com/espy2004/s/espyfacts.html)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A civil jury in
Santa Monica heaped $25 million in punitive damages on O.J. Simpson
for the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, on top of $8.5
million in compensatory damages awarded earlier.
   (USAT, 2/11/97, p.A1)(AP, 2/10/97)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US Air Force
suspended all training flights over the Gulf of Mexico and the East
Coast after two new reports of close encounters between F-16s and
commercial aircraft over New Mexico and Texas.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Army suspended
its top-ranking enlisted soldier, Army Sgt. Major Gene McKinney,
following sexual misconduct allegations.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The National Park
Service took over a small section of Santa Cruz Island, one of the
Channel Islands off of Ventura, Ca. Most of the 60,800 acre island
is owned by the Nature Conservancy.
   (SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A15)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The city of
Cincinnati revealed plans for a new $80-million museum for its role
in the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. The museum and
freedom center were scheduled to open in 2002.
   (USAT, 2/11/97, p.D1)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, From Bolivia it
was reported that heavy rains have destroyed the homes and crops of
tens of thousands of farmers. The rains were the heaviest in 3
decades.
   (SFC, 2/10/97, p.A8)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Bosnian Croat
gunmen killed a Bosnian Muslim man and wounded 22 others who were
among a crowd of some 200 trying to visit a cemetery in the divided
city of Mostar.
   (WSJ, 2/11/97, p.A1)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Spain a Supreme
Court Justice, Rafael Martinez Emperador, was shot dead in Madrid.
In Grenada a car bomb exploded and killed one person and wounded 7.
Guerrillas of the ETA, Basque Homeland and Liberty, were blamed.
   (USAT, 2/11/97, p.5A)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Dr. David Satcher
was confirmed as Surgeon General by the US Senate.
   (SFC, 2/11/98, p.A1)(AP, 2/10/99)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Voters in Maine
repealed a gay rights law. Gov. Angus King called it unfortunate.
   (SFC, 2/11/98, p.A2)(AP, 2/10/99)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Monica Lewinsky's
mother, Marcia Lewis, testified before the grand jury investigating
her daughter's alleged affair with President Clinton.
   (AP, 2/10/99)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Speedskater
Hiroyasu Shimizu won Japan's first gold medal of the Nagano
Olympics, in the 500-meter event.
   (AP, 2/10/99)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, French legislators
approved a reduction in the workweek from 39 to 35 hours.
   (SFC, 2/11/98, p.B3)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Resigned to losing
their case, US House prosecutors said public opinion polls had made
a stronger impression on senators than any evidence that President
Clinton committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A federal judge
ordered American Airlines pilots to end a sickout that had grounded
2,500 flights, stranded 200,000 travelers and left businesses
scrambling for cargo carriers.
   (AP, 2/10/00)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Mitt Romney, a
venture capitalist son of George Romney, was proposed as the new
chief of the Olympic Committee for the 2002 games in SLC.
   (SFC, 2/11/99, p.A3)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Timothy Schultz
(21) and Sarah Elder (20) of Des Moines, Iowa, split a $10.6 million
Powerball lottery prize.
   (SFC, 3/6/99, p.A3)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, US and British
jets again hit Iraqi air defense sites. It was reported that Saddam
Hussein has offered $14,000 to air defense troops who shoot down a
US or British plane.
   (SFC, 2/11/99, p.A15)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Vietnamese
shopkeeper in Westminster, Orange County, Ca., was assaulted and
began a riot when he displayed a poster of Ho Chi Minh in his shop
window.
   (SFC, 2/11/99, p.A3)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan
Taliban officials exchanged fire with bodyguards of bin Laden in
Kandahar.
   (SFC, 3/4/99, p.A12)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Germany it was
announced that work on the nuclear waste storage dump near Gorleben
would be halted. The site had been planned to store waste from the
country's 19 nuclear reactors.
   (SFC, 2/11/99, p.A17)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Mexico 4 armed
seized teacher Roberto Mejia Guzman from a classroom at San Pedro
Petlacala and killed him.
   (SFC, 2/13/99, p.A18)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Russia police
headquarters in Samara burned down and killed at least 23 people.
Organized crime was suspected.
   (SFC, 2/13/99, p.A17)(WSJ, 2/12/99, p.A1)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Kosovo Serbian
authorities returned the bodies of 40 civilian Albanians who were
killed at Racak.
   (SFC, 2/11/99, p.A14)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In South Africa a
helicopter crashed on the roof of an office building in Cape Town
and all 4 people aboard were killed.
   (SFC, 2/11/99, p.C2)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Syria Pres.
Hafez Assad (68) was elected to a 5th 7-year term.
   (SFC, 2/11/99, p.C2)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A UN panel eased a
trade ban on ivory. It allowed Namibia and Zimbabwe to sell nearly
34 tons to Japan.
   (WSJ, 2/11/99, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Federal
Aviation Administration ordered inspections of MD-80, MD-90, DC-9
and 717 series jetliners after two Alaska Airlines planes were found
to have equipment damage similar to that on Alaska Airlines Flight
261, which crashed off the California coast January 31st, killing
all 88 people on board.
   (AP, 2/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Gil Garcetti, LA
district attorney, said that as many as 100 cases had been tainted
by planted evidence, false testimony and other police abuses. His
office had found over 40 people wrongly prosecuted by officers of
the LAPD Rampart Division. In 2005 LA said it would pay $70 million
to settle some 214 lawsuits related to the Ramparts Division.
   (SFC, 2/11/00, p.A3)(SFC, 2/26/00, p.A3)(SFC,
4/1/05, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Steve Forbes,
publisher, announced that he was abandoning his 6-year GOP bid for
the presidency after an investment of $66 million.
   (SFC, 2/10/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Actor Jim Varney,
best known for his comic character Ernest P. Worrell, died in White
House, Tennessee, at age 50.
   (AP, 2/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, At Stansted,
England, 9 hijackers surrendered and released all hostages of the
Afghan jetliner. Police arrested 21 [22] people and recovered arms.
Half the hostages requested asylum.
   (SFC, 2/10/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/11/00, p.A1)(SFC,
2/12/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Indonesia
former Pres. Suharto was declared an official suspect of corruption.
   (WSJ, 2/11/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Israeli jets fired
20 missiles in 8 raids in the Zillaya Valley following Hezbollah
attacks on Israeli troops and militia.
   (SFC, 2/11/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Jammu-Kashmir a
train explosion killed at least 5 people. In northern Kashmir gunmen
burst into 2 homes in Pattan village and killed 6 people with 3
wounded.
   (SFC, 2/11/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Russia the
government announced that it would raise the minimum price for a
bottle of vodka by 30% at the end of the month.
   (SFC, 2/12/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Yemen tribesmen
released Kenneth White (54), an American oil executive, who was
kidnapped a month ago.
   (SFC, 2/11/00, p.D2)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The space shuttle
Atlantis' astronauts installed the $1.4 billion Destiny laboratory
on the international space station.
   (AP, 2/10/02)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Former New York
City Mayor Abraham D. Beame died at age 94.
   (AP, 2/10/02)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Algeria
assailants killed at least 27 people near Berrouaghia. Half of the
dead were children.
   (SFC, 2/12/01, p.B2)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Israel said it
would not cooperate with the newly arrived UN human rights mission
for a fact-finding tour of Palestinian areas.
   (SSFC, 2/11/01, p.C1)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Snowboarder Kelly
Clark won America's first gold at the Salt Lake City Olympics in
women's halfpipe. Claudia Pechstein of Germany shattered her own
world record in the three-thousand-meter speedskating event,
crossing the line in 3:57.70.
   (AP, 2/10/03)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Western
Conference defeated the Eastern Conference, 135-120, in the NBA
All-Star Game.
   (AP, 2/10/03)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A spokeswoman said
former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay would refuse to answer questions
when he appeared before Congress under subpoena.
   (AP, 2/10/03)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Convict-author
Jack Henry Abbott (58) committed suicide in his cell.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Dave Van Ronk,
folksinger and mentor to Bob Dylan, died in NY at age 65.
   (WSJ, 2/11/02, p.A1)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Vernon A. Walters
(85), former UN ambassador and aide to 7 presidents, died in West
Palm Beach, Florida.
   (WSJ, 2/15/02, p.A1)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Mexico Sinaloa
state police reportedly shot and killed drug boss Ramon Felix
Arellano (37).
   (SFC, 2/23/02, p.A12)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Two Palestinian
Hamas gunmen attacked Israeli soldiers at Beersheva. 2 soldiers were
killed before the gunmen were slain.
   (SFC, 2/11/02, p.A3)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Clark MacGregor
(80), former Minnesota Congressman who'd led the Nixon re-election
campaign in 1972, died in Pompano Beach, Fla.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Ron Ziegler
(b.1939), former press secretary for Richard Nixon, died in
Coronado, Ca.
   (SFC, 2/11/03, p.A19)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Afghanistan became
the 89th nation to join the International Criminal Court.
   (AP, 2/11/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Kabul,
Afghanistan, Germany and the Netherlands took control of the
22-nation peacekeeping force charged with keeping order, replacing
Turkey.
   (AP, 2/10/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Chinese court
convicted U.S.-based dissident Wang Bingzhang on spying and
terrorism charges and sentenced him to life in prison.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, France, Germany
and Belgium blocked NATO efforts to begin planning for possible
Iraqi attacks against Turkey.
   (AP, 2/10/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Iraq agreed to
allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key
demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President
Bush, however, brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too
late.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Israeli troops
killed 2 suspected Palestinian militants, including an unarmed
fugitive, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
   (AP, 2/10/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Mexican army
troops seized 2.2 tons of cocaine from a plane that landed in
northern Mexico after it reported mechanical problems. The three men
onboard were arrested.
   (AP, 2/11/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Moscow appointed a
new prime minister of Chechnya. Anatoly Popov replaced Mikhail
Babich, who resigned under pressure 2 days earlier after a dispute
with his superior, the chief of the Moscow-backed administration,
Akhmad Kadyrov.
   (AP, 2/10/03)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The White House
released documents on Pres. Bush's time of service in the Air
National Guard. Questions remained over his service in Alabama in
1972.
   (SFC, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Democratic
presidential front-runner John Kerry rolled to dominating wins in
Virginia and Tennessee, scoring a Southern sweep that knocked rival
Wesley Clark out of the race and put the nomination within reach.
   (Reuters, 2/11/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, NYC said nearly 4%
of men age 40-49 in the city have AIDS or are infected with HIV.
   (WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Edward Jablonski
(81), writer, died in NYC. Noted for his biographies of composers,
his over 2 dozen books also covered aviation and aerial warfare.
   (SFC, 2/14/04, p.A22)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, OPEC met in
Algiers and agreed to reduce its official production by 1 million
barrels-a-day beginning Apr 1. Current production was 24.5 million.
   (WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US broke
ground for a new U.S. Embassy compound in the Chinese capital,
billed by the American government as the largest State Department
project ever built on foreign soil.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, French legislators
voted 494-36 to ban religious emblems such as Muslim head scarves
from state schools.
   (WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, French prosecutors
launched a money-laundering probe into the alleged transfers of
$11.5 million dollars to accounts held by the wife of Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat.
   (AP, 2/11/04)(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Haiti
government supporters in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city, built
flaming barricades to keep rebels out. UN aid officials warned of a
looming humanitarian crisis.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An Iranian
Fokker-50 plane carrying mostly foreign workers crashed as it
approached Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates, killing 43
people aboard. 3 survived.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iskandariyah,
Iraq, a car bomb exploded at a police station south of Baghdad as
dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs, and a
hospital official said at least 53 people were killed and 50 others
wounded.
   (AP, 2/10/04)(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi met with Libya leader Moammar Gadhafi, and the
United States said it had restored diplomatic contacts with the
country. In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks with the
Libyan foreign minister.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Nicaragua
Carlos Guadamuz, the former director of the state-run radio program,
was shot and killed, days after he said he received death threats.
In 1969, he had dressed up as a woman and tried to hijack a plane to
Cuba. He was then jailed for many years under former President
Anastasio Somoza Dabayle.
   (AP, 2/10/04)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, New York civil
rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted of smuggling messages of
violence from one of her jailed clients, radical Egyptian sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman, to his terrorist disciples on the outside. In 2006
Stewart was sentenced to 28 months in prison.
   (AP, 2/10/06)(SFC, 10/17/06, p.A5)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Arthur Miller
(b.1915), the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, died. His most
famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman"
(1949), came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry.
   (AP, 2/11/05)(SFC, 2/12/05, p.A12)(Econ, 2/19/05,
p.84)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In central
Argentina a riot broke out at the San Martin Prison housing 2,000
prisoners, leaving at least three inmates dead and two dozen guards
hostage.
   (AP, 2/11/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Britain's Prince
Charles announced he would marry his divorced lover, Camilla Parker
Bowles, in April.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Vancouver, Canada,
began a trial program giving addicts free heroin on condition that
they accept treatment.
   (Econ, 2/12/05, p.36)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Chile raised its
key interest rate to 2.75% from 2.5%.
   (WSJ, 2/11/05, p.A9)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Haiti police
hunting a rebel leader stormed a compound used by the disbanded
army, exchanging gunfire with defenders. A grade school girl was
killed in the crossfire.
   (AP, 2/11/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A car bomb
detonated by remote control exploded in a crowded central Baghdad
square moments after an American military convoy passed, killing at
least two Iraqis and wounding two others. Insurgents attacked Iraqi
police in Salman Pak and killed at least 6.
   (AP, 2/10/05)(SFC, 2/11/05, p.A20)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, North Korea
announced for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected
moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying it needs the
weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
   (AP, 2/10/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Police in Nepal's
capital arrested 12 rights activists and quashed a rally to protest
the king's emergency rule, while rebels in the southwest killed five
policemen and freed comrades from a jail during a raid on a town.
   (AP, 2/10/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Heavy rains caused
the Shakidor Dam to burst in southwestern Pakistan, releasing a
torrent of water that killed at least 135 people. The country's
total number of dead from weeklong rains and avalanches soon grew to
278.
   (AP, 2/11/05)(AP, 2/12/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Palestinian
militants fired dozens of mortar shells and homemade rockets at
Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, prompting Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas to order his security forces to move quickly to
preserve a new cease-fire with Israel. Abbas fired his top security
commanders following the attacks.
   (AP, 2/10/05)(WSJ, 2/11/05, p.A1)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Peru President
Alejandro Toledo said the government is considering subsidizing some
of this Andean nation's poorest people with direct monthly cash
payments.
   (AP, 2/10/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Male voters
converged at polling stations in the Riyadh region to participate in
city elections, marking the first time Saudis are taking part in a
vote that largely conforms to international standards. Women were
banned from casting ballots.
   (AP, 2/10/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Saudi Arabia
confirmed a 2nd case of polio from 2004 and feared pilgrims to Mecca
might spread the disease.
   (SFC, 2/11/05, p.A13)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Togo turned away a
plane carrying Nigerian peacemakers, drawing threats of sanctions
and accusations from Nigeria that it was blocking efforts to resolve
a crisis widely condemned as a military coup.
   (Reuters, 2/11/05)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Former federal
disaster chief Michael Brown told a Senate committee he had alerted
the White House to how bad things were in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, and agreed with senators who said he'd been made a
scapegoat for government failures.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The FBI and the
California attorney general’s office said they had begun
investigations in the theft by an int’l. counterfeiting ring of
debit card numbers belonging to as many as 200,000 consumers.
   (SFC, 2/11/06, p.A1)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, J Dilla (32), a
founding member of hip-hop act Slum Village, died in Los Angeles.
The Detroit-hailing rapper/producer succumbed to complications from
lupus.
   (Reuters, 2/13/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Dr. Norman Shumway
(83), who performed the first successful heart transplant in the
U.S., died in Palo Alto, Calif.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan 8
soldiers were killed in an area NATO peacekeepers were set to enter.
   (WSJ, 2/11/06, p.A1)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Tens of thousands
of Muslims demonstrated against cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in
Afghanistan, Kenya, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, Israel and Jordan.
   (SFC, 2/11/06, p.A12)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiated one-on-one on ways to end the
18-year conflict over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, but reached
no conclusion and planned more talks.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Azerbaijan’s
Health Ministry said a British laboratory had confirmed the H5N1
strain of bird flu in wild ducks and swans on its Absheron
Peninsula. WHO said 88 people have died from bird flu since 2003.
   (SFC, 2/11/06, p.A8)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Sam Rainsy, an
exiled Cambodian opposition leader, returned home to cheering crowds
of supporters after a royal pardon ended his long feud with PM Hun
Sen.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, China's Ministry
of Health said a woman had died of bird flu in the central province
of Hunan, the eighth person killed by the virus in the country.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Volkswagen
announced that it would cut up to 20,000 jobs over the next 3 years
from its western German workforce of 103,000, as well as demanding
longer hours for no extra pay. The company share price rose 15% on
the announcement.
   (Econ, 2/18/06, p.57)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Greece and Italy
said they had found swans with the H5N1 bird flu virus, the first
known cases in the European Union of wild birds with the deadly
strain of the disease.
   (Reuters, 2/11/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Hong Kong’s
government announced that a dead chicken and Japanese White-eye
found in Hong Kong have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain
of bird flu.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In northern India
Swami Sadanand Sant Gyaneshwar, a Hindu religious leader, and seven
of his followers were shot and killed near Allahabad in Uttar
Pradesh state.
   (AP, 2/11/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A car bomb
exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad, killing at least
8 people. Masked gunmen appeared at the scene later, killing one
woman and wounding several other people near the blast-damaged
building.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Opening ceremonies
were held in Turin, Italy, for the 20th Winter Olympics.
Cross-country skier and gold medalist Stefania Belmondo lit the
caldron.
   (SFC, 2/11/06, p.A1)(AP, 2/10/07)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A leading marine
conservation organization said Japan's stock of whale meat from
hunting for scientific research is so large that the country has
begun selling it as dog food.
   (Reuters, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Kosovo lawmakers
elected Fatmir Sejdiu (54), a moderate new president, paving the way
for the start of talks on the province's future status.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Myanmar
government officials said Win Aung, a former foreign minister ousted
in a Cabinet reshuffle by the country's ruling military junta, has
been put on trial for corruption charges.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In western Nepal
communist rebels clashed with soldiers, leaving seven people dead,
as the royal government announced its mostly uncontested candidates
swept discredited local elections.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The editor of a
small Christian newspaper in Norway apologized for offending Muslims
by reprinting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in January.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In northwestern
Pakistan Shiites and Sunnis battled each other with rockets and
gunfire, raising the death toll of two days of Muslim sectarian
violence to 38.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, FBI agents in
Puerto Rico searched five homes and a business to thwart what the
agency said was a "domestic terrorist attack" planned by militants
favoring independence for the US island territory.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In southern Russia
2 days of fighting in a town in the Stavropol region, 25 miles north
of Chechnya, left 12 suspected rebels and seven policemen dead.
   (AP, 2/11/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Sicily NATO
defense ministers sought to calm Islamic anger over cartoons of the
Prophet Muhammad at a counterterrorism meeting with Arab countries
including Israel, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and
Mauritania.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Turkey a Syrian
was charged with masterminding suicide bombings that killed 58
people in Istanbul, and Turkish prosecutors claimed that Osama bin
Laden personally ordered him to carry out terror attacks in this
pro-Western country. Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa (32) was
accused of serving as a point man between al-Qaida and homegrown
militants behind the series of suicide bombings in Istanbul in 2003,
said the indictment. It said al-Saqa gave the Turkish militants
about $170,000. He was captured in Turkey in August after an alleged
failed plot to attack Israeli cruise ships in the Mediterranean.
   (AP, 2/10/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The UN said
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has sent Ivory Coast President Laurent
Gbagbo a $3.6 million bill for UN property and equipment damaged or
lost during January riots.
   (Reuters, 2/10/06)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Democrat Barack
Obama announced in Illinois that he is running for the White House
in 2008.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a NATO convoy outside
Kandahar city, killing himself but hurting no one else.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Azerbaijan’s
population, at about 8 million, was mostly Shia Muslim.
   (Econ, 2/10/07, p.49)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that researchers in Bolivia had found that the more education a
Tsimane villager had, the longer he was willing to delay
gratification in return for a bigger reward.
   (Econ, 2/10/07, p.86)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Canadian National
Railway Co. said that 2,800 of its conductors and yard-service
workers at its operations in Canada began a strike, a work stoppage
that could affect the country's key shipments of grain, timber and
other commodities.
   (Reuters, 2/10/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A group of
scientists and nature lovers exploring tunnels on Tenerife in the
Canary Islands became trapped underground and at least 6 of them
died after apparently inhaling toxic gases.
   (AP, 2/11/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Guinea at least
four people were killed in Conakry as protesters rioted against the
president's decision to appoint a political ally as prime minister.
   (AP, 2/10/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Indian Kashmir
2 suspected Muslim rebels and a civilian died in a gunbattle with
troops when militants opened fire on an army patrol.
   (AFP, 2/10/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The death toll
from massive flooding in Indonesia rose to 80.
   (AFP, 2/10/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iraq Gen. David
Petraeus (b.1952) took command of the 135,000-strong US force.
Gunmen ambushed two Shiite houses south of Baghdad, killing three
members of one family and wounding two of their neighbors. Gunmen
killed eight new recruits for the police border forces as they were
returning to their homes near the border with Syria.
   (AP, 2/10/07)(AP, 2/11/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Russian President
Vladimir Putin, while visiting Munich for a security conference,
warned that the increased use of military force by the US is
creating a new arms race, with smaller nations turning toward
developing nuclear weapons.
   (AP, 2/10/07)(WSJ, 2/12/07, p.A1)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Somalia mortar
attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in Mogadishu killed
five people and injured 10. In Kismayo two people were killed after
an explosion hit a rally in support of foreign peacekeepers,
prompting government troops to fire into a crowd of thousands.
   (AP, 2/10/07)(AP, 2/11/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, UN police in
Kosovo fired teargas and rubber bullets during clashes with ethnic
Albanians protesting against a UN plan on the fate of the breakaway
Serbian province.
   (Reuters, 2/10/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In South Korea a
fire at a detention center killed 10 people and injured 17 others,
mostly Chinese, who were waiting deportation for illegal entry to
the country.
   (AP, 2/11/07)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In the Grammy
Awards Amy Winehouse won five of the six awards for which she was
nominated. Album of the Year went to jazzman Herbie Hancock for his
Joni Mitchell tribute album. Barack Obama won best spoken word album
for the audio version of his book "The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On
Reclaiming The American Dream."
   (AP, 2/11/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Barack Obama added
the Maine Democratic presidential caucus to the three contests he
swept a day earlier against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
   (AP, 2/11/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Steve Gerber (80),
the comic book writer and creator whose signature character was the
alienated, cigar-chomping Howard the Duck, died in Las Vegas.
Gerber, who also co-created Marvel's "Omega the Unknown" and created
the 1980s animated series "Thundarr the Barbarian," suffered from
pulmonary fibrosis.
   (AP, 2/15/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Roy Scheider
(b.1932), actor and a one-time boxer, died. His broken nose and
pugnacious acting style made him a star in "The French Connection."
He later uttered "You're gonna need a bigger boat,” one of cinematic
history's most memorable lines in "Jaws.”
   (AP, 2/11/08)(SFC, 2/11/08, p.A2)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Ray J. Wu,
Chinese-born professor at Cornell Univ. and creator of a transgenic
rice, died.
   (WSJ, 2/16/08, p.A6)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, State media
reported that China has lost about one tenth of its forest resources
to recent snow storms regarded as the most severe in half a century.
   (AP, 2/10/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Africa Cup of
Nations, a biennial soccer tournament held this year in Ghana, ended
with Egypt’s defeat of Cameroon 1-0.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_African_Cup_of_Nations)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In northern Iraq
car bombs and gunmen struck new US allies, police and civilians. At
least 80 people were reported killed or found dead in a spasm of
violence that coincided with a visit by US Defense Secretary Robert
Gates to Baghdad. A US soldier was killed in a roadside bombing. 8
masked gunmen wielding machine guns stormed the Sultan Palace Hotel
in Basra and seized a British reporter and his Iraqi interpreter.
Richard Butler was seized in Basra with his translator and held
hostage for two months. Butler was rescued on April 14. In 2011 the
Iraqi central criminal court issued a 15-year prison sentence
against a defendant for kidnapping the British journalist Richard
Butler.
   (AP, 2/11/08)(SFC, 2/11/08, p.A14)(AP,
2/12/08)(AFP, 7/2/11)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Nigeria 6
people, including three policemen, were killed in a gun battle with
robbers in Nigeria's commercial city Lagos.
   (AFP, 2/11/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Norway closed its
embassy in the Afghan capital because of terror threats.
   (AP, 2/11/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In South Korea a
fire destroyed the 610-year old wooden structure at the top of the
Namdaemun gate. The two-tiered wooden structure was renovated in the
1960s, when it was declared South Korea's top national treasure. The
next day police arrested a man, who admitted to the arson. Chae
Jong-ki (69) was later convicted of violating the Cultural
Properties Protection Law and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
   (AP, 2/11/08)(SFC, 2/12/08, p.A16)(AP, 4/24/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The UN refugee
agency said up to 12,000 "terrified" refugees from Sudan's Darfur
region have fled across the border to neighboring Chad after the
latest air strikes by the Sudanese military and thousands more may
be on their way.
   (AP, 2/10/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Switzerland
armed robbers stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet
worth $163.2 million from the E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich, one
of Europe's finest private museums for Impressionist and
post-Impressionist art.
   (AP, 2/11/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, President Hugo
Chavez threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an
"economic war" if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize
billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
   (AP, 2/10/08)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Timothy Geithner,
US Treasury Secretary, outlined the government stimulus package. As
much as $2.5 trillion, including $350 billion from the bailout fund,
would come from the Federal Reserve and private investors. The US
Senate approved an $838.2 billion stimulus bill with 3 Republicans
joining Democrats in the 61-37 vote.
   (SFC, 2/11/09, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/11/09, p.A1)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US Postal
Service announced that the price of a first-class stamp will rise to
44 cents on May 11. The Postal Service said it lost $2.8 billion
last year and, unless the economy turns around, is headed toward
much larger losses this year.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, General Motors
Corp. said it will cut 10,000 salaried jobs, citing the need to
restructure itself with a government deadline looming and amid some
of the worst sales in the auto industry's history.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Teens in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, beat a 50-year-old bicyclist leaving the man
critically injured. On March 26 five teens were charged in the
beating.
   (SFC, 3/27/09, p.A8)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Oklahoma an
unusual cluster of twisters ripped across the state killing eight
people. The eight confirmed deaths included seven people in Lone
Grove and a truck driver who was driving through the area.
   (AP, 2/11/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Utah state
Department of Agriculture said Africanized honey bees have been
found for the first time in the Beehive State. The bees, long the
subject of lore as "killer bees," were recently discovered in Utah's
Washington and Kane counties.
   (AP, 2/12/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The first-ever
collision between two satellites occurred over Siberia when a
derelict Russian military communications satellite, Cosmos 2251,
crossed paths with a US Iridium satellite.
   (AP, 2/12/09)(Econ, 8/21/10, p.65)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan a
bomb struck a NATO convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding one.
Police spokesman Wazir Pacha said the attack in Khost province was
carried out by a suicide bomber in a vehicle. But a NATO spokesman
blamed the attack on a roadside bomb.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The British
government banned Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders from
visiting the country to show his anti-Islam film "Fitna" at the
Houses of Parliament. In a telephone interview Wilders called the
government's decision "cowardly" and vowed to defy it.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In England William
Foxton (65), died from a single bullet wound to the head in the
southern port city of Southampton. He killed himself after losing
his life savings in an alleged $50 billion fraud run by Wall Street
financier Bernard Madoff. Foxton had served in the British Army and
more recently worked as a defense contractor in Afghanistan.
   (AP, 2/14/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The European Union
announced that it has signed a pact with 17 social networking
providers including Facebook, MySpace and Google to improve
safeguards against the bullying of teenagers online.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, EU ministers
demanded the reopening of negotiations with Liechtenstein on
fighting fraud.
   (Econ, 2/21/09, p.53)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A tanker burst
into flames after colliding with a container ship in a shipping
channel off the coast of Dubai. The Maltese-flagged tanker, Kashmir,
was carrying about 30,000 tons of oil condensate.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, President Nicolas
Sarkozy made the first-ever visit by a French head of state to Iraq,
seeking to reassert French influence in the country even as the US
prepares to draw down its forces.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Israel
front-runners moderate Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former PM
Benjamin Netanyahu made last-minute appeals to voters as polls
opened in a close general election whose outcome could determine the
course of Mideast peace negotiations.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Mexico a drug
gang kidnapped and killed six people near a town in the US-Mexican
border region, prompting a series of gunbattles with soldiers that
left 15 others dead. The violence started when gunmen kidnapped nine
alleged members of a rival drug gang in Villa Ahumada and executed
six of them along the PanAmerican Highway outside of the town.
   (AP, 2/11/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Nigerian union
officials said a 2-day-old strike by freight and forwarding agents
to protest high charges was worsening cargo congestion in Lagos, the
country's main seaport.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Pakistan called
for a new strategy of dialogue to combat militancy and urged
Washington to reconsider military action on its territory in its
first talks with US envoy Richard Holbrooke.
   (AFP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An unmanned
Russian cargo ship lifted off from Kazakhstan carrying supplies and
a space suit to the international space station and its three-member
crew. American astronauts Michael Fincke and Sandra Magnus are
aboard the station along with Russian Yuri Lonchakov. The crew size
will be doubled to six members later this year.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Sri Lanka's
military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said Tamil Tiger guerrillas
shot dead 19 civilians and wounded 75 others fleeing territory still
under rebel control. The Red Cross loaded some 240 sick and wounded
onto a boat to evacuate them from the war zone.
   (AFP, 2/10/09)(AP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Sudanese
government delegation met Darfur rebels from the Justice and
Equality Movement in the Qatari capital for their first peace
contacts since 2007.
   (AFP, 2/10/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Taiwan's former
first lady admitted to laundering $2.2 million and forging
documents, the latest in a judicial process that has seen her
husband stage a jailhouse hunger strike, her daughter lash out at
media, and her son plead guilty to similar charges.
   (AP, 2/10/09)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US Treasury
Department said it was freezing the assets in US jurisdictions of
Revolutionary Guard Gen. Rostam Qasemi and four subsidiaries of a
previously penalized construction firm he runs because of their
alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass
destruction.
   (AP, 2/11/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Snow, wind and
slush hounded eastern commuters as blizzard warnings from Baltimore
to New York City heralded the second major storm in a region already
largely blanketed by weekend snowfall. Snow was falling from
northern Virginia to Connecticut after crawling out of the Midwest,
where the storm canceled hundreds of flights and was blamed for
three traffic deaths in Michigan.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Charlie Wilson
(b.1933), former Texas congressman (1973-1996), died. His
deal-making funneled millions of dollars in weapons to Afghanistan
to back rebels fighting the Soviet Army. He was also known as “Good
Time Charlie” for his reputation as a hard-drinking womanizer. In
2003 George Crile authored “Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary
Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent
Changed the History of Our Times.” In 2007 the film “Charlie
Wilson's War” starred Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson.
   (SFC, 2/11/10, p.A8)(Econ, 2/20/10, p.84)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Bolivia said it
has created a space agency to build and launch the country’s first
satellite. The government will initially invest $1 million in the
Bolivian Space Agency.
   (SFC, 2/11/10, p.A2)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Brazil a TV
news helicopter pilot steered his crippled, out-of-control aircraft
away from a busy highway in Sao Paulo before crashing in a grassy
field during rush hour, losing his own life but avoiding greater
casualties. A cameraman onboard was seriously injured.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Brazilian health
official said 32 elderly people had died in the southeastern city of
Santos this week because of a heat wave that has pushed temperatures
to unseasonably high levels.
   (AP, 2/11/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, China declared a
new food-safety campaign after contaminated milk products from an
earlier scandal showed up repackaged in several places around the
country, exposing weaknesses in the country's promise to stop such
problems from happening again.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Greece a strike
by civil servants shut schools and grounded flights across the
country, as unions challenged cutbacks aimed at ending a government
debt crisis that has shaken the entire European Union.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Iran's top police
official says authorities have made a series of arrests of suspected
opposition activists before expected Feb 11 protest rallies.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iraq an
American soldier died of injuries unrelated to combat.
   (AP, 2/11/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An Israeli TV
station said it has uncovered evidence that Palestinian Authority
officials have stolen millions of dollars in public funds.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Myanmar a court
sentenced Nyi Nyi Aung, a Burmese-born American, to 3 years of hard
labor for carrying a forged identity card, undeclared US currency
and for not renouncing his nationality after becoming a US citizen.
He was arrested last September when he returned to visit his mother,
an imprisoned democracy activist suffering from cancer.
   (SFC, 2/11/10, p.A2)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Nigerian Vice
President Goodluck Jonathan removed the powerful justice minister in
his first major step since assuming executive powers in the absence
of President Umaru Yar'Adua. Outgoing Justice Minister and Attorney
General Michael Aondoakaa had been among the group of ministers who
held out most strenuously against formally transferring power to
Jonathan.
   (Reuters, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Pakistan's top
civilian security official said Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has
died. It was the government's first categorical confirmation of
Mehsud’s death, whose passing is likely to weaken, but not vanquish,
the al-Qaida-linked insurgent network he led. On April 29
intelligence officials reversed claims that Mehsud had died, handing
militants something of a propaganda victory.
   (Reuters, 2/10/10)(AP, 4/29/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Somalia at
least 11 civilians were killed when African Union forces in
Mogadishu responded to an insurgent mortar attack on their base. At
least four security personnel and a civilian were killed when two
groups of security officers fought over where to collect their
salaries.
   (AFP, 2/10/10)(AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Sri Lanka
opposition supporters protesting the arrest of their defeated
presidential candidate scuffled with government-backers on the
streets of Colombo before police fired tear gas and broke up the
clashes.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Sudan Mohamed
Musa (23), a Darfuri student, was abducted in Khartoum and later
found dead. Fellow students later said they had seen his body, that
his hands were burned, his head and body beaten, cut and swollen and
his clothes soaked in blood.
   (AP, 2/15/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Ukrainian
opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich called on defeated rival Yulia
Tymoshenko to resign as prime minister, turning up the pressure even
as her camp contested the result of the Feb 7 presidential election.
   (Reuters, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Uruguay former
dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry, in office from 1971 to 1976, was
sentenced to 30 years in prison for violating the constitution when
he led a 1973 coup that began 12 years of dictatorship.
   (AP, 2/10/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Vietnam’s central
bank devalued its currency, the dong, by 3.4%. This followed a
devaluation of 5.4% last November.
   (Econ, 3/6/10, p.59)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Twelve Yemeni
soldiers and 24 Shiite rebels were killed in clashes despite the
announcement of an imminent accord to end six months of fighting.
   (AFP, 2/11/10)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US computer
security firm McAfee Inc said in a report that hackers working in
China over the last 2-4 years broke into the computer systems of 6
European and US energy companies to steal bidding plans and other
critical proprietary information.
   (Reuters, 2/10/11)(SFC, 2/25/11, p.D5)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Arizona filed a
lawsuit against the federal government, alleging that Washington has
failed to secure the state's porous border with Mexico.
   (Reuters, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Missouri a St.
Louis police officer shot and killed an off-duty sheriff's deputy
late in the day when the deputy, described as intoxicated and
agitated, appeared to pull out a gun during an argument.
   (Reuters, 2/11/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Montana House
of Representatives voted to repeal the state’s 6-year-old medical
marijuana law.
   (SFC, 2/11/11, p.A6)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Cary, North
Carolina, Devon Mitchell (19), who took 6 people hostage at a
Raleigh suburb bank, was shot to death as he tried to leave with a
woman hostage. Police later reported that Mitchell did not have a
firearm.
   (SFC, 2/11/11, p.A6)(SFC, 2/14/11, p.A4)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Hershey Trust
Co. fired board member Robert Reese, a former top Hershey Co.
executive. Reese had filed documents in Pennsylvania saying the
Hershey Trust has allowed excessive compensation for board members,
violations of federal banking regulations and free limousine rides
and rounds of golf.
   (SFC, 2/11/11,
p.A6)(http://freedomofspeech.kicks-ass.org/?q=node/5034)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Utah
first-degree felony count of sodomy on a child and two second-degree
felony counts of sexual abuse of a child were filed against Keith
Brown (55), father of the 5 Browns classical piano group. The Brown
children severed their professional relationship with their father
in October of 2008.
   (AP, 2/17/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Allentown,
Pennsylvania, a natural gas explosion rocked a downtown neighborhood
overnight, leveling two houses and spawning fires that burned for
hours through an entire row of neighboring homes. One person was
killed, and at least five others were unaccounted for.
   (AP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Afghan
intelligence service exposed the workings of two suicide bomber
cells. One was run for 3 years by Talib Jan, a Taliban commander
jailed in the Pul-e-Charki maximum security prison in Kabul. A
suicide bomber killed Chardara district governor Abdul Wahid
Omerkhail and two others after walking into the administrator's
office in Kunduz province to hand over a letter.
   (SFC, 2/11/11, p.A5)(AFP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Argentine
authorities seized nearly 1,000 cubic feet of undeclared equipment,
describing it as machine guns and ammunition, drugs and spy
equipment. It was on a US Air Force C-17 cargo plane that landed
with material for a training course that a US Special Forces team
had been invited to provide to Argentina's federal police. The
course was canceled and the C-17 flew home with the Special Forces
team. A US State Department official with knowledge of the events
said afterwards that all the key material in the shipment was
properly declared and authorized by Argentina, describing the
undeclared equipment as a minor problem with the plane's manifest
that could have been resolved privately. On March 10 a judge said
Americans committed no crimes and formally closed the case. The
incident cost US taxpayers more than $1 million.
   (AP, 2/15/11)(AP, 3/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Australian PM
Julia Gillard introduced contentious legislation for a one-off tax
to help pay for devastating floods which killed 35 people and
swamped thousands of homes.
   (AFP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Austrian police
said vandals have destroyed a 500-year-old grapevine in the village
of St. Georgen that was believed to have been a direct ancestor of
the popular gruner veltliner wine, known as gru-vee in the US.
   (SFC, 2/11/11, p.A2)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, PetroChina said it
is purchasing half of a prolific shale gas project from Canada's
Encana Corp for C$5.4 billion ($5.4 billion), marking the largest
Chinese investment yet in a foreign natural gas asset.
   (Reuters, 2/10/11)Â
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Dubai convicted
killer Rashid Rabee al-Rashidi, a 30-year-old boat captain, was put
to death by a firing squad in the first execution in the United Arab
Emirates in three years. The execution followed his conviction for
raping and killing a boy (4) in a mosque bathroom in November 2009.
   (AP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Egypt’s state
television reported that the state prosecutor has launched a formal
corruption investigation against three former government ministers
and a former ruling party leader. In a late night speech President
Hosni Mubarak handed most of his powers to his vice president but
refused to step down. Shock that Mubarak did not step down turned to
rage the next day, and protests escalated.
   (Reuters, 2/10/11)(AP, 2/10/11)(AP, 2/11/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy declared that multiculturalism had failed, joining a
growing number of world leaders or ex-leaders who have condemned it.
   (AFP, 2/11/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, French judges
demonstrated in cities throughout France, with the main march in the
western city of Nantes, where a teenage waitress disappeared on Jan
19. A police hunt found her severed limbs and head in the waters of
an abandoned quarry. Pres. Sarkozy’s incautious comments about the
suspect, and his complaints of incompetence in the legal system,
sparked the revolt among judges, prosecutors and lawyers.
   (AP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Tullow Oil
announced a new discovery off Ghana, raising the possibility of
further potential off the West African nation which only recently
began large-scale production.
   (AFP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, India's Supreme
Court told the government to set up a special court to speed up
hearings into an alleged telecoms fraud that cost the nation up to
$40 billion in lost revenues.
   (AFP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A rebel group in
India's violence-plagued northeast began peace talks with the
government in an effort to end a decades-old insurgency.
   (AP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, India and Pakistan
announced they would resume wide-ranging peace talks that were
frozen after the 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of
Mumbai, which were blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
   (AP, 2/10/11) Â
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iraq a car bomb
killed 8 pilgrims on the road to the Shiite shrine in Samarra, a
highly sensitive site still being rebuilt after a 2006 attack that
sheered off its gleaming golden dome and engulfed the country in
years of sectarian bloodshed. Iraqi lawyers called for the end of
judicial corruption and prisoner abuse in a protest that was one of
the biggest anti-government demonstrations in Iraq since the start
of popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
   (AP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Ireland a
commuter plane crashed and burst into flames, killing six people and
injuring another six, as it tried to land in heavy fog at Cork
airport.
   (AFP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Mexico gunmen
barged into a bar in Ciudad Juarez and opened fire late at night,
killing seven women and one man. By the next morning 10 more people
were killed in other shootings in the city.
   (AP, 2/11/11)(SFC, 2/12/11, p.A2)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Pakistan a
teenage suicide bomber killed up to 31 army recruits at a parade
ground. The Taliban said it was revenge for US drone strikes and
local military offensives.
   (AFP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Panamanian
lawmakers repealed a law preventing foreign government investment in
mining, clearing the way for Canada's Inmet Mining to build the
largest copper mine in Central America.
   (Reuters, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Russian
environmental activist Alla Chernysheva (35) was detained with her 2
daughters (3&6), the latest victim in a campaign to silence
opponents of a new Moscow-St. Petersburg highway that is tearing up
the ancient Khimki forest. Authorities announced a March start date
for the highway. According to police Chernysheva was arrested on
suspicion of taking a fake bomb to a Feb. 1 protest rally.
   (AP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, South Africa’s
President Jacob Zuma announced a raft of economic incentives to
create jobs, including tax breaks for the manufacturing sector, in
his second State of the Nation address.
  Â
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110211/wl_csm/362777)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The fighting in
Southern Sudan between the region's army and a rebel faction left
105 people dead, including 39 civilians, 24 southern soldiers and
police officers and 42 rebels. Rebel commander George Athor's troops
captured Fangak a day earlier, and the fighting continued today
until the southern military retook it. Rebel troops attacked the
town of Phom el-Zeraf over two days. Women and children ran for
their lives — straight into a river, where many drowned or were shot
to death. Some 240 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
   (AP, 2/11/11)(SFC, 2/12/11, p.A3)(AP,
3/11/11)(http://tinyurl.com/4bsgaep)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In western
Switzerland a Roman Catholic diocese said it has suspended two
priests after allegations they sexually abused minors.
   (AP, 2/10/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A new Thai airline
reported the hiring of transsexual ladyboys as flight attendants,
aiming at a unique identity to set itself apart from competitors as
it sets out for the skies. PC Air, a charter airline set to start
operations on Asian routes in April, has thus far chosen 4 ladyboys,
along with 19 female and 7 male flight attendants.
   (Reuters, 2/10/11)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Pres. Obama
offered a compromise that would allow women to obtain free
contraception, but would require them to obtain it directly from
their insurance companies if their employers object to birth control
because of religious beliefs.
   (SFC, 2/11/12, p.A1)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Alabama
Uzbekistan-born Ulugbek Kodirov (22) pleaded guilty to plotting to
kill Pres. Obama with a rifle. He claimed to be acting on behalf of
a terror group in his home country.
   (SFC, 2/11/12, p.A5)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Former San Diego
police officer Anthony Arevalos was sentenced to nearly 9 years in
prison for soliciting sexual favors in exchange for not issuing
traffic tickets against young women.
   (SFC, 2/11/12, p.A5)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In California
information from death row inmate Wesley Shermantine led trained
dogs to a site in Calaveras County containing the remains of
Chevelle Wheeler (16), who disappeared while skipping school in
1985. A day earlier the same dogs found the remains of Cyndi
Vanderheiden (25), last seen in front of her home in San Joaquin
County in 1998.
   (SFC, 2/11/12, p.A6)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In New Hampshire
Hunter Mack (14) shot himself in the face at the Walpole Elementary
School cafeteria filled with dozens of students eating lunch. Mack,
was hospitalized after the shooting. A relationship issue was
suspected.
   (AP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In North Dakota
the vice president in charge of overseeing a foreign students
program resigned following a report that the school had awarded
hundreds of degrees to foreign students who did not earn them.
   (SSFC, 2/12/12, p.A14)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Spokane,
Washington, Tracy Ann Ader and her two sons, 8 & 10, were
killed. The body of suspect Dustin Gilman (22) was found on Feb 13.
The Aders had befriended him and he had lived with the family for
several months.
   (SFC, 2/14/12, p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/73zjz2p)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In southern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb hit a police vehicle on patrol, leaving
five policemen dead and one wounded in Trin Kot, the capital of
Uruzgan province. A car was also hit by a roadside bomb in the
Khinjak area of Trin Kot, killing one person and wounding two
others.
   (AFP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Argentina accused
Britain of sending nuclear weapons to the disputed Falkland islands,
while UN leader Ban Ki-moon appealed to both sides to avoid an
"escalation" of their sovereignty battle.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Bahrain tens of
thousands of anti-government protesters streamed toward an empty lot
dubbed 'Freedom Square' in the village of Miqsha outside the capital
Manama. They sought to occupy the site for the one-year anniversary
of their uprising in the Gulf kingdom. Three people were severely
wounded by tear gas canisters fired at the protesters.
   (AP, 2/10/12)(AFP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Bosnia’s
Parliament approved a new Cabinet in a vote of 26-7, with one
abstention. The leadership has promised to immediately tackle the
country's economic problems, including its pressing lack of a
budget.
   (AP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Brazil police
and firefighters in Rio went on strike, a week before glittering
Carnival celebrations that typically draw 800,000 tourists were due
to start. Union officials expected anywhere from 50% to 70% of
58,000 officers to join the strike. Union members were not content
with legislative approval of a 39% raise to be staggered over this
year and the next, along with a promise of more in 2014.
   (AP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Mayor Boris
Johnson said London will be the first city in England to test
electronic monitoring to force persistent alcohol offenders to stop
drinking. The trial program was expected to start later this year.
Electronic devices which continuously monitor alcohol are used in
several US states. Offenders who break their no-drink order can be
sent to jail.
   (AP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Judge Duncan
Ouseley ruled in London's High Court: "The saying of prayers as part
of the formal meeting of a council is not lawful under section 111
of the Local Government Act 1972, and there is no statutory power
permitting the practice to continue." The legal challenge was
launched in July 2010 after the National Secular Society was
contacted by Clive Bone, a non-believer who was then a councilor in
Bideford.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Chinese PM Wen
Jiabao pledged religious freedom and cultural protection in Tibet,
just hours after security forces reportedly killed two Tibetans who
protested China's rule.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Nearly 2,000
Syrians took part in a demonstration outside the Syrian consulate in
Dubai.
   (AP, 2/26/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Egypt hundreds
of protesters marched to the defense ministry in Cairo demanding the
military rulers' ouster, on the eve of a planned civil disobedience
campaign to mark Hosni Mubarak's overthrow a year ago. Armed
tribesmen kidnapped three South Korean tourists and their Egyptian
guide in the Sinai peninsula. All 4 were released the next day and
plan to continue their tour.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)(AP, 2/10/12)(AFP, 2/12/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Greece violence
broke as over 15,000 people took to the streets of Athens after
unions launched a 2-day general strike to protest spending cuts.
   (SFC, 2/11/12, p.A3)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Guinea Bissau PM
Carlos Gomes Junior named Adiato Djalo Nandigna, his current
communications minister, to stand in for him until presidential
polls on March 18 in which he is a candidate.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Hong Kong
mainland woman Xu Li (29) was charged in a magistrates' court for
her role as a "birth agent," the first prosecution of its kind as
the southern city cracks down on the practice.
   (AFP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Israel a
general strike in Israel entered its third day after negotiations
between unions and government broke down.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Jamaica Wilmot
Perkins (80), a veteran journalist considered the island's
"godfather of talk radio," died. He worked for more than 50 years in
radio, launching his first program "What's your Grouse?" on RJR 94FM
in 1960. He quit a couple years later to become a farmer but
returned to radio in the 1970s, ultimately launching a show called
"Perkins On Line" on Hot102 FM.
   (AP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said more than
40,000 people have fled recent clashes between two northern Kenyan
tribes over access to water and pasture. The clashes pit two
traditional rivals, the Borana and the Gabra, around the town of
Moyale on the Ethiopian border.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In central Mexico
a mob in the village of San Mateo Hitzilzingo beat three suspected
kidnappers to death. Two of the men on fire during the attack. Some
300 angry people took the three men out of the town's police station
and began beating them after a woman screamed that they were
kidnappers.
   (AP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, From Niger Saadi
Kadhafi, one of the sons of Libya's slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi,
said a nationwide rebellion is brewing against the country's new
rulers as he vowed to return to his homeland.
   (AFP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Nigeria
officers from the State Security Service and soldiers raided a home
in Mutum Biyu, Taraba state, where Kabiru Sokoto, alleged mastermind
of a radical Islamist sect's Christmas Day church bombing, was
hiding. He had escaped a day after his arrest in January. They found
Sokoto hiding behind a rack of drying laundry. Two explosions went
off outside a customs building in Maiduguri, killing four bombers
and wounding two soldiers.
   (AP, 2/10/12)(AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Russian military
court convicted Lt. Col. Vladimir Nesterets of providing the CIA
with secret information on Russia's new intercontinental ballistic
missiles and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. The Federal
Security Service said Nesterets pleaded guilty to passing on that
classified information in exchange for money.
   (AP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Saudi Arabia
Zuhair al-Said (21) was killed as security forces dispersed a
protest against the death of another Shiite demonstrator the
previous day.
   (AFP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Slovenia Janez
Jansa (b.1958), a former prime minister (2004-2008) again took
office as prime minister.
   (Economist, 9/22/12, p.63)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Eight South Korean
lawmakers made a high-profile visit to a modern factory park that
sits just across the world's most heavily armed border and
represents the last major cooperative initiative between the two
rival Koreas.
   (AP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Spain’s new
conservative government approved sweeping labor market reforms as
part of a drive to revive the economy and reduce the nearly 23%
unemployment.
   (SFC, 2/11/12, p.A2)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Swaziland’s main
teachers' union said the government has let go 1,200 school
teachers, leaving classrooms empty just one month into the school
year. The union threatened mass action.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Syria 2
explosions struck security compounds in Aleppo, killing 28 people,
the first significant violence in a major city that has largely
stood by President Bashar Assad in the 11-month-old uprising against
his rule. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 27 civilians
were killed as security forces opened fire on antigovernment
protesters who streamed out of mosques. A Syria-based activist, said
the regime appears to be trying to take over rebel-held areas in
Homs and the northwestern restive province of Idlib before Feb. 17,
when Assad's ruling Baath party is scheduled to hold its first
general conference since 2005.
   (AP, 2/10/12)(SFC, 2/11/12, p.A3)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Turkey Interior
Minister Idris Naim Sahin said that five Turks, including a former
intelligence officer, were being questioned for allegedly kidnapping
and handing over to Damascus Lt. Col. Hussein Harmoush, a Syrian
army officer, who had sought refuge in Turkey.
   (AP, 2/11/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The UN refugee
agency said it needs $145 million (110 million euros) in extra funds
to help thousands fleeing fighting in Sudan's Blue Nile and South
Kordofan states.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Yemen thousands
rallied in Sanaa to back a single-candidate presidential election
planned for later this month that has sparked protests in the south.
   (AFP, 2/10/12)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In California 3
people died in a helicopter crash in a rural area of northern Los
Angeles. The helicopter was being used for a reality TV show.
   (SFC, 2/11/13, p.A5)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Carnival
Triumph began floating aimlessly about 150 miles off the Yucatan
Peninsula after a fire erupted in the aft engine room, knocking out
the ship's propulsion system. Passengers had limited access to
bathrooms, food and hot coffee as they waited for two tugboats to
arrive to tow them to port. The ship arrived into Mobile Bay,
Alabama, on Feb 14.
   (AP, 2/11/13)(SFC, 2/15/13, p.A11)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan US
Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford took over as the new and probably last
commander of all US and international forces in the country.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Opposing factions
in Bahrain began talks to ease an Arab Spring conflict that has run
longer than Syria's rebellion and is playing out on the doorstep of
the US military's main naval base in the Persian Gulf.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In the Canary
Islands a lifeboat with occupants fell overboard during a safety
drill from a cruise ship docked at the pier of Santa Cruz port in La
Palma. 5 crew members were killed and three injured.
   (AP, 2/10/13)(SFC, 2/11/13, p.A2)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Chinese New
Year, celebrated as the beginning of the year of the Snake,
officially began.
   (SSFC, 2/24/13, p.A10)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Rabbi David
Hartman (81), one of the world's leading Jewish philosophers and a
promoter of both Jewish pluralism and interfaith dialogue, died in
Israel.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Allahabad,
India, a stampede killed 37 people following the Kumbh Mela
religious gathering. Tens of thousands of people were in the station
waiting to board a train when railway officials announced a
last-minute change in the platform.
   (AP, 2/11/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iraq gunmen
killed four people in three attacks in the northern city of Mosul.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Israeli
government gave final approval for construction of 90 new homes in a
West Bank settlement, a move that could cause tensions with the US
ahead of President Obama's visit to the region.
   (AP, 2/11/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, One person was
killed as protests broke out in at least two parts of
Indian-controlled Kashmir despite a strict curfew to prevent
violence after the execution of a Kashmiri man convicted in a deadly
2001 attack on India's Parliament.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Malian soldiers
with rocket propelled grenades traded fire in Gao with combatants
believed to be from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West
Africa, or MUJAO. Islamic fighters invaded through Gao’s Niger River
harbor and fought a protracted downtown battle for hours.
   (AP, 2/10/13)(AP, 2/11/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Acclaimed Spanish
writer Antonio Munoz Molina said he will accept the prestigious
Jerusalem Prize, an Israeli award given to authors, despite calls
from pro-Palestinian activists to boycott the Jewish state.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Syrian troops and
opposition forces battled for control of a key highway outside
Damascus for the fifth straight day as the rebels continued their
campaign to push into the capital, the seat of President Bashar
Assad's power.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In southern
Thailand suspected militants killed 5 soldiers and wounded 5 others
in two roadside attacks.
   (SFC, 2/11/13, p.A2)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Tunisia’s state
news agency reported that the Congress for the Republic party, led
by President Moncef Marzouki, is quitting the coalition government,
which is led by Islamist party Ennahda.
   (AP, 2/10/13)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Shirley Temple
Black (b.1928), child film star and US diplomat, died at her home in
Woodside, Ca.
   (SFC, 1/26/06, p.E3)(SFC, 2/12/14, p.A1)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan a
car bomb in Kabul killed two US contractors for the international
security force ISAF. A coalition soldier was killed in a separate
attack in the east.
   (Reuters, 2/10/14)(SFC, 2/11/14, p.A2)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Brazil’s Band TV
said that 49-year-old journalist Santiago Andrade remains in a coma
on life support, but that doctors have declared him brain dead. He
was hit in the head on Feb 6 by a powerful flare fired during a
protest against a 10-cent hike in bus fares in Rio.
   (AP, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Thousands of
Bosnian protesters called for the resignation of their regional
government, ratcheting up demands on the sixth straight day of
demonstrations over unemployment, corruption and political
paralysis.
   (Reuters, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The River Thames
burst its banks after reaching its highest level in years, flooding
riverside towns upstream of London.
   (AP, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Burundi at
least 60 people perished in flooding and landslides following a
night of torrential rain in Bujumbura that swept away hundreds of
homes and cut off roads and power.
   (AFP, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The EU agreed to
launch negotiations with Cuba to increase trade, investment and
dialogue on human rights in its most significant diplomatic shift
since Brussels lifted sanctions on the island in 2008.
   (Reuters, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Greek police
arrested four foreigners and seized weapons and explosives in a raid
by the country's anti-terrorist unit on residences in the greater
Athens area. Media said they appeared to be Turkish nationals
suspected of belonging to the Revolutionary People's Liberation
Party-Front, or DHKP/C.
   (AP, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Penguin Books
India agreed to withdraw from sale all copies of "The Hindus: An
Alternative History" (2011) by Wendy Doniger, a book that takes an
unorthodox view of Hinduism, and will pulp them as part of a
settlement after a case was filed against the publisher.
   (Reuters, 2/11/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iraq militants
accidentally set off their own car bomb at a training camp in an
orchard in the village of al-Jalam, leaving 21 dead and resulting in
two dozen arrests.
   (AP, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Kenya gays and
lesbians joined a global effort to protest against an
anti-homosexuality bill passed by Uganda's parliament that is now in
the hands of the country's president.
   (AP, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In the Netherlands
former health minister Els Borst (81), a woman who drafted the
nation's landmark 2002 law permitting euthanasia, was found dead in
her garage. Police ruled out natural causes.
   (AP, 2/11/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Saudi state media
said a court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for
protesting and disseminating photos of demonstrations online.
   (AP, 2/11/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Somalia two car
bombs exploded in Mogadishu, wounding at least five people including
a government official.
   (Reuters, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Spanish High Court
Judge Ismael Moreno sought international arrest orders for former
Chinese President Jiang Zemin, ex-PM Li Peng and others on
allegations of genocide in Tibet.
   (Reuters, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Syria shipped out
a third consignment of chemical weapons materials and has also
destroyed some materials on its territory.
   (Reuters, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Peace talks
between the Syrian government and the opposition resumed in Geneva.
   (AP, 2/10/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Thai police made
their first arrest of a senior leader of the antigovernment
protests. Sonthiyarn Cheunruethainaitham was arrested for
violating the country’s emergency law.
   (SFC, 2/11/14, p.A2)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Yemen's president
and main parties agreed to transform the unrest-riven country into a
six-region federation as part of a political transition. The move
was immediately rejected by some southerners who insist on a
separate state.
   (AFP, 2/10/14)(Reuters, 2/10/14)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US government
announced the new Cyber Threats Intelligence Integration Center to
coordinate cyberthreat intelligence spread across the federal
government.
   (SFC, 2/11/15, p.C1)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, NBC announced that
it is suspending Brian Williams as “Nightly News” anchor and
managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public
about his experiences covering the Iraq war.
   (SFC, 2/11/15, p.A12)7
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In eastern
Massachusetts schools and most public transit systems remained
closed around Boston as residents dug out from a third major winter
storm in two weeks.
   (Reuters, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In North Carolina
3 Muslim students: Deah Shaddy Bakarat (23) his wife of two months
Yusor Mohammad (21) and Ms. Mohammad’s sister Razan Mohammad
Abu-Salha (19), were shot and killed near the campus of the Univ. of
NC. Craig Stephen Hicks (46) turned himself in to the nearby Chatham
County Sheriff’s Office and was charged with three counts of
first-degree murder. A long-running dispute over parking was said to
be a potential motive. Police found at least a dozen firearms and a
large stash of ammunition at the home of Hicks.
   (http://tinyurl.com/lomuzs7)(SFC, 2/12/15,
p.A12)(SFC, 2/14/15, p.A8)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, John Dehlin (45),
a Mormon who gained notoriety over the past decade for running a
website that offers doubting Latter-day Saints a forum to chat,
announced that Utah church leaders have kicked him out of the faith
for apostasy.
   (SFC, 2/11/15, p.A6)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Washington
state three officers arrived at a grocery store parking lot in Pasco
where Antonio Zambrano-Montes (35) reportedly threw rocks at them.
Police said they first used a stun gun to try to incapacitate the
suspect after he would not obey commands to surrender, then opened
fire and killed him. In a 22-second video filmed by a motorist,
Zambrano-Montes is seen running away from the officers before he was
killed. Three officers fired 17 shots at Zambrano-Montes. An
independent autopsy said he was hit seven times with at least two
entrance wounds on the back of his body.
   (Reuters, 2/14/15)(SFC, 2/21/15, p.A6)(AP,
2/26/15)(SFC, 2/27/15, p.A5)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan
Taliban suicide attackers assaulted a police station, killing one
officer in Kunduz province. A roadside bomb in Jalalabad exploded as
Angeza Shinwari, a Nangarhar province councilwoman, drove past. The
blast killed her driver and severely wounded Shinwari and another
person.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Albania two
bombs exploded in Tirana early today in what PM Edi Rama described
as terror attacks apparently intended to hit back at a government
anti-crime drive.
   (Reuters, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Australia two
men were arrested for planning to launch an imminent terrorist
attack. Police seized a homemade flag associated with the Islamic
State, a machete and a hunting knife in a counterterrorism raid.
   (AP, 2/11/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, China promised to
help build a hydroelectric power plant in a violent Afghan border
region, as well as road and rail links to Pakistan, in the latest
sign it is taking a more active role in Afghanistan.
   (Reuters, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Egypt's Pres.
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Egypt and Russia have agreed to build a
nuclear power plant together. El-Sissi also said the two nations
signed agreements to improve natural gas business and investment.
They also agreed to create a Russian industrial zone along the Suez
Canal. This came during a joint press conference in Cairo with
visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Egypt five
bombs exploded outside police stations in Egypt's second city of
Alexandria, wounding 10 civilians.
   (AFP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The European Union
said it is providing 100 million euros ($113 million) in loans to
Jordan to help it deal with the fallout from crises like the
conflicts in neighboring Syria and Iraq.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In France a
three-day trial began for Pierre Le Guennec and his wife, Danielle.
They claimed that the artist, or his wife, gave them 180
lithographs, collages and paintings and 91 sketchbook drawings
around 1970 when Le Guennec began working as a general handyman for
Picasso.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Hong Kong woman
was convicted of assaulting her Indonesian maid, Erwiana
Sulistyaningsih, in a case that sparked outrage for the scale of its
brutality. A judge found Law Wan-tung guilty of 18 charges including
grievous bodily harm.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, India's PM
Narendra Modi suffered his first major election setback since
becoming prime minister last May, as anti-corruption campaigner
Arvind Kejriwal won a landslide victory in Delhi state polls.
   (AFP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iraq three
bombing attacks killed at least 8 people and wounded 25.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Japan and Mongolia
signed a free trade agreement.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Malaysian
opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim began a 5-year prison sentence after
a court rejected his final appeal against a sodomy conviction.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Malaysia arrested
cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, aka Zunar, for sedition over a
Twitter post that criticized the judiciary for upholding a five-year
jail term for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who accused the
courts of "bowing to the dictates of the political masters".
   (Reuters, 2/11/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In the Netherlands
a "distributed denial of service" attack was responsible for taking
down several of government websites for hours.
   (AP, 2/11/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Scotland’s Royal
and Ancient Golf Club announced its first seven female members,
including Swedish great Annika Sorenstam and Britain's Princess
Anne.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Syria's army
gained ground from rebels in the south in what a monitoring group
described as a large-scale offensive in the region backed by
Lebanese Hezbollah fighters against insurgents including al Qaeda's
Syrian wing. The operation began two days earlier.
   (Reuters, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In eastern Ukraine
rockets killed 7 civilians in Kramatorsk and rebels pushed on with
an assault to cut off an army-held rail junction, setbacks that
showed Kiev's position worsening on the eve of peace talks. 7
Ukrainian soldiers were reported killed and 23 wounded in the past
24 hours.
   (Reuters, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The United Arab
Emirates launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group from an
air base in Jordan.
   (AP, 2/10/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Venezuela Judge
Ali Fabricio Paredes sentenced drug kingpin Walid Makled to 14 years
in prison, drawing immediate objections from prosecutors, who said
they will appeal.
   (AP, 2/11/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In southeastern
Yemen 4 suspected Al-Qaeda fighters were killed in a suspected US
drone strike in Hadramawt province.
   (AFP, 2/10/15)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Staples said it
has received European approval for its buyout of Office Depot and in
exchange it would split off some operations in Europe to allay
monopoly fears.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Four Afghan
policemen were killed and another seven wounded when one of their
colleagues opened fire on them in Kandahar province.
   (AP, 2/11/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Australian
lawmakers committed to legalize the growing of marijuana for medical
use within a part of the world renowned for zero-tolerance and harsh
penalties for illegal drugs.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Thousands of
junior doctors throughout England wet on strike after the failure of
contract negotiations.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In northern
Cameroon at least 6 people were killed and 30 injured by two
Islamist suicide bombers at a Muslim funeral gathering in
Nguetchewe.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, El Salvador's
Supreme Court ordered a lower tribunal to open a civil prosecution
against former Pres. Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) for possible illicit
enrichment.
   (AP, 2/10/16)  Â
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, French Foreign
Minister Laurent Fabius (69) announced he was leaving the government
ahead of a wider reshuffle that President Francois Hollande hopes
can help bolster his chances for the 2017 presidential elections.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In India millions
of children began getting deworming treatment in a massive national
campaign to prevent parasitic worms from infecting them and
impairing their mental and physical development.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An Indonesian air
force plane crashed into a house on the main island of Java, killing
both people on board and two people in the house.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An Israeli court
handed former prime minister Ehud Olmert one month of prison for
obstructing justice, in addition to a previous 18-month sentence for
bribery.
   (AFP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Israeli forces
shot at a Palestinian who was throwing rocks at Israeli vehicles on
road near the refugee camp. Omar Jawabreh (16) of the al-Aroub
refugee camp north of Hebron was killed.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Italian police
said Monsignor Patrizio Benvenuti (64), originally from Argentina,
has been arrested for allegedly defrauding hundreds of elderly
people out of millions of euros through an elaborate
money-laundering scheme. An arrest warrant has been issued for
French financier and property dealer Christian Ventisette (54), whom
authorities have not been able to find.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Japan announced
that it will impose new sanctions on North Korea to protest a rocket
launch seen as a test of missile technology.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Four Myanmar
military personnel were killed and one survived when an air force
utility aircraft crashed after taking off from the airport in the
capital Naypyitaw.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that North Korea has executed its army chief of staff, Ri Yong Gil,
for corruption and factional conspiracy. If true this would be the
latest in a series of executions, purges and disappearances under
its young leader.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Pakistan a car
slammed into a gas tanker, causing a fireball that killed 10 people,
including six children eastern Punjab province.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, South Korea said
that it will shut down a joint industrial park with North Korea in
response to the North's recent rocket launch, accusing the North of
using hard currency from the park to develop its nuclear and missile
programs.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said at least 500 people have been
killed on all sides during fighting in Aleppo province since the
start of a Syrian army and allied forces offensive began in early
February.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In northern Syria
Kurdish fighters backed by Russian airstrikes launched an attack in
an attempt to capture a military air base held by Syrian insurgents.
An international aid group warned that the health system is close to
collapse in parts of northern Syria.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Turkey’s state-run
Anadolu Agency reported that one police officer was killed and
another wounded when PKK rebels launched a rocket attack on an
armored vehicle in Sirnak.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)(AP, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In eastern Ukraine
4 civilians were killed when a minivan carrying them drove over a
landmine as they waited to cross out of separatist-held territory.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The United Nations
Development Program said it has raised $60 million for food aid in
Zimbabwe and is feeding 1 million people as the country faces its
worst drought in a quarter century.
   (Reuters, 2/10/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Yemen an
airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition killed TV director Mounir
al-Hakimi, his wife, and 3 children in their home in Sanaa.
   (AP, 2/10/16)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, President Donald
Trump and PM Shinzo Abe opened two days of talks looking to cement a
decades-old alliance between Japan and the United States that has
been under strain because of the Republican's positions on trade and
security.
   (Reuters, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, White Tennessee
police Officer Josh Lippert (32) fatally shot Jocques Clemmons (31),
a black man who was carrying a gun, following a traffic stop in East
Nashville. Witnesses later said Clemmons was shot in the back while
running away. No charges were filed against Lippert.
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jocques_Clemmons)(SFC,
8/5/17, p.A6)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Virginia
Mohamed Jalloh (27) was sentenced to 11 years in prison for
attempting to provide material support to a terrorist group. He had
admitted traveling to Africa to join the Islamic State group and had
pleaded guilty last October.
   (SFC, 2/11/17, p.A6)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Ford Motor CEO
Mark Fields said Ford will invest $1 billion over the next five
years in Argo AI, a months-old company specializing in machine
learning by former leaders of self-driving teams at Google and Uber.
   (SFC, 2/11/17, p.D1)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, US investment firm
Blackstone said it is buying London-based Aon's technology-enabled
benefits and human resources assets in a deal valued at up to $4.8
billion.
   (AP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Angola a
stadium stampede killed at least 17 and injured scores during a
domestic soccer league match between host side Santa Rita de Cassia
and Recreativo de Libolo in the northern town of Uige. The host team
blamed the stampeded on police error. The death toll soon climbed to
22.
   (AFP, 2/11/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Brazil Public
Safety Director Andre Garcia said 703 military police officers in
Espirito Santo have been charged with the crime of revolt. Military
police patrol Brazil’s cities and are barred by law from going on
strike.
   (SFC, 2/11/17, p.A2)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, British police
said 794 pounds (360 kg) of cocaine with a street value of up to 50
million pounds ($62 million) have washed up on beaches in eastern
England.
   (AP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Canada the
Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board announced it has given Will
Baker, formerly known as Vince Li, an absolute discharge, meaning he
is no longer subject to monitoring. Baker, a diagnosed
schizophrenic, killed Tim McLean (22), a carnival worker who was a
complete stranger to Baker, in 2008. A year later he was found not
criminally responsible due to mental illness.
   (AP, 2/11/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Islamic State
group in Egypt claimed to have executed five men it accuses of
spying for the army, which is battling the jihadists in the Sinai
Peninsula.
   (AFP, 2/11/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, French
anti-terrorist police arrested four people in Montpellier, including
a girl (16), suspected of preparing an "imminent" attack.
   (AFP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Hong Kong police
arrested a man, surnamed Cheung (60), for arson after a fire
engulfed a subway train, injuring 17 people and triggering the
evacuation of the Tsim Sha Tsui station during rush hour.
   (AFP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Iraq at least
five people were killed and 19 wounded in two suicide bombings that
hit an army position and a restaurant in eastern Mosul.
   (Reuters, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Italy adopted
measures to accelerate the asylum process, easing pressure on
shelters and speeding deportations of those whose appeals are
rejected.
   (Reuters, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Libyan security
officials said Islamic State militants have shifted to desert
valleys and inland hills southeast of Tripoli as they seek to
exploit Libya's political divisions after defeat in their former
stronghold of Sirte.
   (Reuters, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, East Libyan forces
lost a Mi-35 combat helicopter near the central town of Zalla. Two
crew members were killed. It was not clear if the helicopter had
been shot down or crashed because of a technical fault.
   (Reuters, 2/11/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The head of
Lithuania's state tourism agency resigned after admitting her agency
promoted the Baltic country in an international social media
campaign by using landscape photos taken in other countries.
   (AP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Amnesty
International urged Myanmar's government to suspend operations at
the Letpadaung mine copper mine, jointly owned by its army and a
Chinese state enterprise, until its impact on human rights and the
environment is properly addressed.
   (AP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In northern
Nigeria at least eight soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram ambush
in the Mafa area east of Maiduguri.
   (AFP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Seven Pakistani
fishermen, who remained jailed in Yemen for over a decade, returned
home following efforts by the ICRC and Pakistan's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
   (AP, 2/11/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Peruvian police
launched a manhunt for ex-president Alejandro Toledo, once hailed as
an anti-corruption champion, after a judge ordered his arrest over
accusations he took $20 million in bribes.
   (AFP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Philippines
court granted protection to families of five people killed or
wounded by police and the right to access police case reports, in
the first successful legal challenge to President Rodrigo Duterte's
deadly crackdown on drugs.
   (Reuters, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In the southern
Philippines a magnitude 6.7 nighttime earthquake killed eight people
and injured more than 120 in Surigao del Norte province. The number
of people killed was later reduced to four.
   (AP, 2/11/17)(AP, 2/12/17)(AP, 3/5/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, South Africa’s
Pres. Zuma said state utility Eskom would sign new renewable energy
contracts, angering coal transport workers who say such contracts
will lead to 30,000 job losses in the coal industry.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Swedish banking
group SEB issued its first green bond, raising 500 million euros
($532 million) for loans to low-carbon projects.
   (Reuters, 2/13/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In southern
Thailand Sama-ae Doloh, a sub-district chief in Pattani province,
was fatally shot by heavily armed men who stopped him on his way to
work. In neighboring Narathiwat province, two people were fatally
shot by five masked men at a rubber trading store.
   (AP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Turkey police
used tear gas to disperse protesters trying to enter Ankara
University to denounce a government decree that dismissed 330
academics. At least five protesters were detained.
   (AP, 2/10/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The United Nations
received a notice from Gambia's reversing its withdrawal from the
International Criminal Court.
   (AP, 2/14/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Yemeni government
forces took full control of the Red Sea coastal town of Mokha after
weeks of deadly fighting with Shiite rebels and their allies. UNHCR
spokesman William Spindler said that 34,000 people have fled their
homes in Yemen after fierce fighting erupted in the port towns of
Mokha and Dhubab on the Red Sea.
   (AFP, 2/10/17)(AP, 2/10/17)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Arizona three
British people died in a helicopter crash at the Grand Canyon. They
were in the American Southwest to celebrate one of their birthdays,
a trip they had been looking forward to for a long time. They were
identified on Feb. 12 as veterinary receptionist Becky Dobson (27),
her boyfriend, Stuart Hill (30), and his brother Jason Hill (32).
Four others were critically injured in the crash of Papillon's
EC-130 helicopter
   (AP, 2/12/18)   (AP, 2/13/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In San Francisco
Wakeen Best (34) broke into a white Mercedes at the parking
structure on Stockton and Sutter streets and hurled a 5-year-old
Chihuahua from its 7th story. On July 20 a SF Superior Court jury
found her guilty animal cruelty, auto burglary and vandalism. On
September 6 Best was sentenced to three years in prison.
   (SFC, 7/21/18, p.C1)(SFC, 9/7/18, p.D4)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Kentucky Joseph
Nickell shot and killed his parents, his girlfriend and his
girlfriend's mother before killing himself in Paintsville.
   (SFC, 2/12/18, p.A5)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Ohio police
officers Eric Joering (39) and Anthony Morelli (54), responding to a
911 call were shot and killed in a Columbus suburb. Suspect Quentin
Lamar Smith (30) was taken into custody.
   (SSFC, 2/11/18, p.A10)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Afghanistan
gunmen killed a district judge in western Herat province. An attack
late today in southern Helmand province killed 16 pro-government
militiamen.
   (AP, 2/10/18)(AP, 2/12/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Bolivia eight
people died from the explosion of a gas canister at a Carnival
parade in Oruro. The toll of injured included at least 40.
   (AP, 2/11/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Brazilians let off
steam during the first full day of Carnival, a holiday long
considered a safety valve for social and political tensions.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Brazilian police
arrested Gordon Fowler (42), a homeless man from Guyana, accused of
attacking Venezuelan migrants in Boa Vista, a city in northeastern
Brazil that's coping with a wave of migrants from the struggling
neighboring nation.
   (AP, 2/11/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Speaking in Dubai
IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged Arab countries to slash public
wages and subsidies in order to rein in spending, achieve
sustainable growth and create jobs.
   (AFP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Estonia and Russia
exchanged two men convicted of espionage at a border crossing
between the two countries. Raivo Susi, an Estonian found guilty of
espionage and sentenced to 12 years in prison in Russia, was
exchanged for Artern Zintsenko, who had been given five years by
Estonia for spying for Russia in May.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Hong Kong a
double-decker bus crashed in a suburb, killing 18 people and
injuring dozens more.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Indonesia a bus
plunged from a hill and killed at least 27 people on the island of
Java.
   (SSFC, 2/11/18, p.A4)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In
Indian-Â Â Â controlled Kashmir two soldiers were
killed and three others wounded as soldiers traded fire with armed
militants who were holed up inside an army camp on the outskirts of
the city of Jammu. Two militants were also killed.
   (AP, 2/10/18)(Reuters, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Israel said an
Iranian drone infiltrated its airspace from Syria. Israeli planes
struck 12 targets including three aerial defense batteries and four
Iranian targets that were part of Iran's military establishment in
Syria. An Israeli F-16 was shot down. One pilot was evacuated to a
hospital for medical treatment. A second pilot was lightly wounded.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Pakistan
thousands of Mehsud tribesmen ended their dayslong sit-in in
Islamabad after assurances that the police officer accused of
killing a 27-year-old aspiring model will be arrested and their
other demands also met.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas told visiting Indian PM Narendra Modi that
he is counting on India's support for a multi-country sponsorship of
any future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Russia's National
Anti-terrorism Committee said two militants have been killed in a
gun battle in Ingushetia, one of whom was being sought for having
fought with the Islamic State group.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In South Korea the
sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a summit between her
brother and South Korean President Moon Jae-in would pave the way
for a fast improvement in ties that would make "yesterday seem like
a long time ago." The Koreans suffered an 8-0 shutout by Switzerland
in Pyeongchang as around 200 of North Korea's famed "army of
beauties" charmed a crowd of 3,600 besotted locals with nostalgic
oldies -- and even broke out a Mexican wave. Lim Hyo-jun won the
men's 1,500-meter final, giving South Korea its first gold medal of
the Pyeongchang Games.
   (AP, 2/10/18)(AFP, 2/10/18)  Â
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Spanish police
said they have confiscated 310 kilos (683 pounds) of young eels over
the past week that were about to be smuggled out of the country and
shipped to Hong Kong and Vietnam. The confiscated eels were released
in rivers.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10 In Sri Lanka the
Rajapaksa-backed Sri Lanka People's Front, won more than 230 local
councils out of the 341 that were up for grabs.
   (AP, 2/12/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Syria 11
Turkish soldiers were killed. Two of them were aboard a Turkish
attack helicopter that crashed while on a mission over Afrin.
   (AP, 2/11/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Taiwan search
and rescue workers found the bodies of two people believed to be
members of a Chinese family trapped in a partially collapsed hotel,
bringing the death toll from the Feb. 6 earthquake to 14. Three
people remained missing.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Tanzania laid
waste to eight hectares of cannabis at the Meru forest reserve in
Arusha province following another six acres earlier in the week in
an operation overseen by Interior Minister Mwigulu Nchemba.
   (AFP, 2/11/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Thailand around
four hundred people gathered at a monument to democracy in Bangkok
to urge the military government not to delay a national election
planned later this year, in one of the biggest anti-junta
demonstrations since the military took power in 2014.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Turkey's state-run
Anadolu news agency said Turkish police have detained 48 suspected
Islamic State members who were preparing to launch an attack.
   (Reuters, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Turkish military
helicopter was "downed" and two soldiers killed in northern Syria
during Ankara's offensive on Syrian Kurdish militia there. Kurdish
fighters downed the chopper in Raju, northwest Afrin.
   (AP, 2/10/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In southern
Venezuela violence broke out at the illegal Cucapra gold mine in
Bolivar state leaving at least 18 people killed as soldiers
confronted an armed gang that threatened wildcat miners.
   (SFC, 2/12/18, p.A2)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Hollywood stars
and British royalty gathered in London for the British Academy Film
Awards, where "The Favourite" was living up to its name and leading
the race for trophies. The Netflix black-and-white production "Roma"
triumphed at the Bafta film awards, boosting Oscar hopes for the US
streaming giant whose rise poses a serious challenge to the
conventional Hollywood business model.
   (AP, 2/10/19)(AFP, 2/11/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Jan-Michael
Vincent (b.1945), American TV and film star, died in Ashville, NC.
He became nationally recognizable on the TV series "Airwolf"
(1984-1986). His films included: "The Undefeated" (1969), "The
World's Greatest Athlete" (1973), "Buster and Bille" (1974), "Bite
the Bullet" (1975), "Hooper" (1978) and "Big Wednesday" (1978).
   (SSFC, 3/10/19, p.C11)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Police in China
said accidents on icy highways in central China left at least 13
dead and dozens injured this weekend as millions of families were
heading home from the Lunar New Year holiday.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, At the World
Government Summit in Dubai Pakistan's PM Imran Khan said his nation
needed "painful" economic reforms to cut back on its massive debt,
just after meeting the head of the International Monetary Fund.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Speaking in Dubai
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned governments to gear
up for a possible economic storm as growth undershoots expectations.
   (AFP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Ethiopia a
statue of Emperor Haile Selassie was unveiled in Addis Ababa at the
headquarters of the African Union.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Ethiopia
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who led an active, reformist tenure
as African Union chair, passed the baton to Egyptian President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi, seen as more likely to focus on security issues than
expanding the body's powers.
   (AFP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Hungary's PM
Viktor Orban said his government will be increasing financial aid
and subsidies for families with several children in an effort to
reverse the country's population decline.
   (SFC, 2/11/19, p.A3)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Iran's foreign
minister offered his country's military assistance to the US-backed
Lebanese army, saying Iran is ready to cooperate in all sectors
should the Lebanese government want it.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Israel's PM
Benjamin Netanyahu, who seeks re-election, pledged to freeze money
transfers to the Palestinian Authority following a deadly
Palestinian attack on a young Israeli woman. Palestinian civil
affairs minister Hussein al-Sheikh said that the PA would not go
along with Israel withholding any part of the tax money due.
   (AFP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Jordanian court
sentenced two brothers to death in connection with a 2016 attack
claimed by the Islamic State group, overturning a life sentence
handed to the men last year. The shooting attack in Karak killed
seven policemen and two Jordanian civilians as well as a female
Canadian tourist, and wounded 34 other people.
   (AFP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Kashmir five
rebels were killed in fighting with Indian government forces in the
southern Kulgam area.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In New Zealand
strong winds fanned forest fires that have been burning for a week
through the South Island, forcing thousands of people from their
homes. More residents were expected to flee the Pigeon Valley fire.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Pakistani
journalist Rizwan-ur-Rehman Razi was released on a bond of about
$730. He had been booked for tweeting against state agencies.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Palestinian civil
defense crews retrieved the bodies of two Palestinians, including a
Hamas policeman, who suffocated to death from gas in a cross-border
tunnel under Gaza's frontier with Egypt.
   (AFP, 2/11/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Russia
protesters in several cities took to the streets in solidarity with
opposition activist Anastasia Shevchenko, the first person to be
charged under a new law that carries a prison term for
"participation in the activities of an undesirable organization".
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A Russian official
said that Moscow had repatriated a fresh batch of 27 children whose
mothers are being held in Iraq for belonging to the Islamic State
group. Thirty other children were sent back to Moscow in late
December.
   (AFP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, South Korea and
the United States struck a new deal that increases Seoul's
contribution for the cost of the American military presence on its
soil.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Spain tens of
thousands of people waving Spanish flags joined a rally in Madrid
called by right-wing and far-right parties against PM Pedro Sanchez,
who they accuse of treachery over his negotiations with Catalan
separatists.
   (AFP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Sudanese police
used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who marched on a
women's prison calling for the release of detainees in Omdurman.
   (AFP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An SDF official
said the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have seized ground from
Islamic State in a fierce battle to capture its last enclave in
eastern Syria.
   (Reuters, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A strike among
pilots at Taiwan's flag carrier China Airlines dragged into a third
day, resulting in further flight cancellations.
   (AP, 2/10/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Pope Francis urged
governments to take decisive action against the $150 billion-a-year
human trafficking business and the plight of millions of modern-day
slaves.
   (Reuters, 2/10/19)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, President Donald
Trump's $4.8 trillion budget plan for the coming fiscal year drew a
prompt rejection from congressional Democrats, who said it betrayed
his promise to protect popular health and safety-net programs.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, President Donald
Trump again downplayed the severity of head injuries suffered by US
troops during the Jan. 8 Iranian missile attack, as the injury total
rose to 109.
   (AP, 2/11/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Department of
Justice unveiled charges against four members of China's military
for allegedly hacking into the credit agency Equifax and stealing
the personal information of millions of Americans in 2017. The four
charged are Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke and Liu Lei, all of whom
are members of the 54th Research Institute, a part of China's
People's Liberation Army. Equifax settled a class action lawsuit
over the breach for more than $700 million in 2019.
   (CBS News, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Maryland unveiled
statues of abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass in
the Old House Chamber, the room where slavery was abolished in
Maryland in 1864.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Mississippi
William Bynum Jr. (57), the president of Jackson State Univ.,
resigned after he was arrested over the weekend in a prostitution
sting in Clinton.
   (SFC, 2/11/20, p.A5)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In South Carolina
Faye Swetlik (6) vanished as she played outside her home in Cayce.
On Feb 13 authorities said she was found dead. Coty Scott Taylor
(30) was found dead in Faye's neighborhood of Churchill Heights.
   (ABC News, 2/13/20)(Yahoo News, 2/14/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Washington
state the Seattle City Council voted 7-0 to ban residential
evictions for the months of December, January and February. The
ruling would not apply to landlords owning four housing units or
less.
   (SFC, 2/12/20, p.A6)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Arm Ltd, a
semiconductor technology firm owned by SoftBank Group, unveiled a
chip technology aimed at putting artificial intelligence functions
on tiny devices such as sensors designed to detect patterns in human
speech or other streams of data.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Brazil authorized
its national public security force to support efforts to fight
deforestation in the Amazon, amid worries that 2020 could see
another surge in destruction of the world's largest rainforest.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Officially, much
of China got back to work, but there were few signs of activity on
the streets of the capital, Beijing, as the new coronavirus has now
killed 909 people and sickened 40,235. An advance World Health
Organization team of medical experts arrived in China to help
investigate the coronavirus outbreak.
   (AP, 2/10/20)(Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Defense Minister
Carlos Holmes Trujillo said Colombia hopes this year to eradicate
130,000 hectares (321,237 acres) of coca, the base ingredient in
cocaine.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Egypt freed
detained labor activist Kamal Khalil, who criticized the government
and spent about five months in detention. He will have to report at
least once a week to the police.
   (AP, 2/11/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A storm battered
Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains, killing at least
six people and causing severe travel disruptions as it moved
eastward across the continent and bore down on Germany.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Finland's paper
workers union agreed a pay deal with the forestry industry
association, ending a two week strike that halted production of one
of the country's main exports.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In France dozens
of climate activists invaded US asset manager BlackRock's office in
central Paris, calling for the fund to pull out of fossil fuel
investments.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Chancellor Angela
Merkel said she regretted today's decision of her protegee Annegret
Kramp-Karrenbauer not to stand as their party's candidate for the
chancellorship in Germany's next federal election.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Iraqi security
forces shot and killed at least one protester in the country's
south, as the five-month anti-government protest movement entered a
critical stage.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A cybersecurity
expert said a security breach in an app used by Israel's ruling
conservative party has exposed the personal information of nearly
6.5 million Israelis to hackers.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, An Israeli court
sentenced Raed Salah, head of the outlawed northern branch of the
Islamic Movement in Israel, to 28 months in prison for “inciting to
terror” in a series of speeches he made after a deadly attack in
2017 on Israeli police at a contested Jerusalem holy site.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Japan launched a
second complaint at the World Trade Organization over support South
Korea gives its shipbuilding industry, intensifying a wider dispute
between the two Asian countries.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Philippine
government moved to end the franchise of the country's leading
broadcast network for allegedly broadcasting for a fee. ABS-CBN has
been critical of the leadership of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.
   (SFC, 2/11/20, p.A3)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Russian law
enforcement officers in Siberia detained Vadim Kutsenko, an adherent
of the Jehovah's Witnesses, late today and drove him to a secluded
area where they reportedly beat his head and legs, put him in a
chokehold and used a taser on him. Kutsenko was suspected of helping
to organize the Jehovah's Witnesses' activities in Chita.
   (AP, 2/14/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, South Sudan
President Salva Kiir was named the top “spoiler of peace” in a new
award that seeks to shame him and others into taking serious steps
to end bloody conflict in the world's youngest country. A
Uganda-based group, Atrocities Watch Africa, cited Kiir and others
for their roles in the conflict that also has displaced at least 2
million people.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Syria six
Turkish soldiers were killed and seven were wounded when Syrian
government forces shelled the Taftanaz air base in Idlib. Four
Syrian rebels were also killed in the shelling. The exchange of fire
came even as a Russian delegation arrived in Ankara for a second
round of talks to discuss the fighting in Syria.
   (AP, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The United Nations
said it is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and
atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an
invasion of desert locusts that are ravaging crops and exacerbating
a hunger crisis.
   (Reuters, 2/10/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A confidential
United Nations report disclosed that. North Korea stepped up its
exports of illegal coal shipments in 2019, with most of those
deliveries headed for China.
   (Bloomberg, 2/10/20)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Washington, DC,
opening arguments begin in Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Larry Flynt (78),
the pornographer and self-promoting free-speech champion, died at
his home in Los Angeles. He was a ninth-grade dropout who built an
empire of publications, strip clubs and “adult” shops around his
sexually explicit magazine Hustler, which debuted in July, 1974.
   (NY Times, 2/10/21)
2021 Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, California to
date had 3,425,087 cases of coronavirus and 45,178 deaths. The SF
Bay Area had 390,331 cases and 4,697 deaths. Total cases nationwide
reached over 27,280,775 with the death toll at 471,195.
   (sfist.com, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that prosecutors in Georgia have started a criminal investigation
into former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn
Georgia’s election results, including a phone call he made to
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Mr. Trump pressured
him to “find” enough votes to help him reverse his loss.
   (NY Times, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Diocese of
Winona-Rochester in Minnesota said it has reached a $21.5 million
settlement with 145 individuals who were sexually abused by its
clergy members.
   (AP, 2/11/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Researchers
reported that a drug has been shown so effective against obesity
that patients may dodge many of its worst consequences, including
diabetes. The drug, semaglutide, made by Novo Nordisk, already is
marketed as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
   (NY Times, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that David Wilson (36), one of Britain's most prolific pedophiles,
has been jailed for 25-years. He used fake Facebook profiles to
blackmail children into sending indecent images of themselves.
   (The Telegraph, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Authorities
reported that the share of people infected with the more contagious
coronavirus variant first identified in Britain is on the rise in
Denmark.
   (Reuters, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, China's space
agency said an uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has successfully entered
orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth, in the
country's first independent mission to the red planet. In May or
June, the Tianwen-1 will attempt to land a capsule carrying a 240-kg
rover in a rapid seven-minute descent onto a massive plain in the
northern hemisphere of Mars known as Utopia Planitia.
   (Reuters, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, China and India
began to disengage their troops at the southern and northern banks
of Pangong Lake in the Ladakh region.
   (SFC, 2/12/21, p.A4)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that the hippo population at Hacienda Napoles Park in Colombia, once
the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, now numbered
between 65 and 80. Escobar had imported 3 female hippos and one male
decades ago. Scientists now warned that the hippos pose a major
threat to the areas biodiversity.
   (SFC, 2/10/21, p.A3)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Congo DRC’s
North Kivu province a second case and death of Ebola was recorded in
the health zone of Biena. Health officials had confirmed a case of
Ebola Feb. 7 in another woman who was from the village of Biena and
died in Butembo.
   (AP, 2/11/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Cuba published a
new list of trades open to self-employed entrepreneurs. It specified
124 sectors reserved for the state (or entirely banned).
   (Econ., 2/13/21, p.33)  Â
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Equatorial Guinea
received 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses developed by China's
Sinopharm, the latest in a series of donations to countries on the
continent struggling to procure shots.
   (Reuters, 2/11/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Red Cross
officials said “Many, many severe cases of malnutrition” are being
reported in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region. 80% of Tigray’s 6
million people were unreachable in the fourth month of fighting and
"emaciated” women and children fill displacement camps.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The EU police
agency Europol said police have arrested 10 people in the UK,
Belgium and Malta for allegedly hijacking mobile phones belonging to
US celebrities including internet influencers, sports stars and
musicians to steal personal information and millions in
cryptocurrency.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Iran’s President
Hassan Rouhani urged the West to restore the 2015 nuclear deal as
the nation marked the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic
Revolution.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that Italian police have intercepted cocaine worth £228 million. The
cocaine was hidden in containers full of exotic fruit from Ecuador
and coffee and frozen meat from Brazil.
   (The Telegraph, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In central Mali an
attack on a UN base in Kerena injured at least 20 peacekeepers.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Palestinian poll
workers fanned out across the Gaza Strip, where they found voters
eager to register ahead of elections that could serve as the first
referendum on Hamas' rule since the militant group seized power more
than a decade ago.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Independent media
outlets in Poland suspended news coverage and other programming to
protest a planned new advertising tax that they view as an attempt
by the country's right-wing government to undermine press freedoms.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Saudi activist
Loujain al-Hathloul, best known for challenging the ban on women
driving, was released after the kingdom had jailed her for nearly
three years on charges that Western governments and rights groups
roundly dismissed as politically motivated.
   (NY Times, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Hundreds of Thai
protesters gathered in Bangkok to demand the release of four
activists remanded in custody pending trial on charges of insulting
Thailand's king, a crime punishable by 15 years in prison.
   (Reuters, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Two Turkish
soldiers were killed in a new Turkish military offensive against a
Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. A 3rd soldier died of his wounds
the next day.
   (AP, 2/11/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A UN report said
that a recovery in global trade is expected to slow again in the
first quarter of 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic keeps disrupting
the travel industry after world trade contracted 9% in 2020.
   (Reuters, 2/10/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The UN
counter-terrorism chief urged the repatriation of tens of thousands
of women and children suspected of links to the Islamic State
extremist group, warning that many are being radicalized in
deteriorating detention camps in Syria and Iraq.
   (AP, 2/11/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Yemen’s Houthi
rebels targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia with
bomb-laden drones, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch
fire at Abha airport.
   (AP, 2/10/21)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The US Senate
approved a bill that would ban companies from forcing employees who
allege sexual assault or harassment to settle their claims with an
arbiter without the option of filing a lawsuit. It was sent to
President Joe Biden to sign into law after being passed by the House
of Representatives earlier this week.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A US court ruling
struck down a Trump administration decision to take gray wolves off
the endangered species list.
   (NY Times, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Total US COVID-19
cases reached over 77,284,578 with the death toll at 912,549.
   (sfist.com, 2/11/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, A 16-year-old boy
was arrested and charged with calling in bomb threats at seven
predominantly Black schools in Washington DC a day earlier. Another
16-year old juvenile male, of Northwest, DC, was arrested and
charged with Terroristic Threats in connection to a bomb threat at
Kipp DC College Preparatory.
   (AP, 2/10/22)(The Grio, 2/11/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Liveright
Publishing Corporation and Well-Read Black Girl announced a
partnership for a literary series dedicated to debut fiction by
women and non-binary authors, “with a focus on people of color and
traditionally underrepresented voices.” Well-Read Black Girl was
founded in 2015 by Glory Edim.
   (AP, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Universal Music
Group said musician Sting has sold his entire songwriting catalog of
roughly 600 songs for $300M.
   (NBC News, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Africa Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the BA.2 sub-variant
of Omicron is now the dominant COVID-19 variant in South Africa and
has been detected in multiple other African countries. The World
Health Organization estimated that the number of COVID-19 infections
in Africa could be seven times higher than official data suggests,
while deaths from the virus could be two to three times higher.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Belgium
authorities banned a pan-European "freedom convoy" of motorists
protesting COVID-19 restrictions from entering Brussels.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Britain reported
66,638 new COVID-19 cases and 206 deaths within 28 days of a
positive test. Case numbers in the last seven days have fallen 25%
compared with the previous seven days, while deaths have fallen 20%
on the same measure.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, China's industry
ministry published revisions to draft rules dictating how companies
and localities should manage data, bringing more specificity to the
country's evolving data governance regime.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, China's General
Administration of Customs said it has suspended imports of beef,
dairy and beer from Lithuania, amid a growing trade dispute over the
Baltic nation's relations with Taiwan.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Chinese electric
car maker Xpeng said it was expanding further to Europe, taking aim
at the Swedish and Dutch markets.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Beijing 2022
Winter Olympics Organizing Committee detected a total of 11 new
COVID-19 cases among games-related personnel. Two of the cases were
found among new airport arrivals.
   (Reuters, 2/11/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In China Nathan
Chen of the United States won a gold medal at the men’s singles
figure skating event. US snowboarder Chloe Kim (21) won a 2nd gold
medal in the halfpipe.
   (NY Times, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Martina Sablikova
(34) became the most decorated Czech Olympian at the Beijing Games
when she won a bronze medal, the seventh speed skating medal of her
career.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The giants of
German luge combined their immense talents to take gold in the team
relay, in a performance that underlined their mastery of the sport
and means they will take home all the luge gold this Beijing
Olympics had to offer.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Irene Schouten of
the Netherlands scooped up her second Beijing Olympics gold medal
when she won the women's 5,000 meter speed skating event.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The EU said it had
delivered a single letter in response to Russia's proposals to
member states on European security on behalf of the 27 foreign
ministers of the bloc.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The European
Commission said the EU has earmarked over 150 billion euros ($170
billion) for investments in Africa under a global fund launched to
offer an alternative to Chinese money.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The Paris police
authority said that "freedom convoy" motorists protesting against
COVID-19 restrictions will be blocked from entering Paris.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Guatemalan lawyer
Leidy Indira Santizo Roda, who previously represented the United
Nations-backed anti-corruption mission in court proceedings, was
arrested by agents from the Attorney General’s Office in what some
observers saw as retribution against those who helped the highly
effective anti-corruption effort.
   (AP, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Guinea-Bissau
President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said three soldiers who were arrested
by US drug authorities in a 2013 sting operation and pleaded guilty
to cocaine trafficking had been detained in connection with the
failed Feb. 1 coup attack.
   (Reuters, 2/11/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Hong Kong reported
986 new coronavirus infections as authorities scrambled to contain
an outbreak which medical experts warn could see 28,000 daily cases
by the end of March, with the unvaccinated elderly a particular
worry.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, India's most
populous state of Uttar Pradesh began voting in the first of a
series of local elections that will be a key test of the popularity
of PM Narendra Modi and his ruling party.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Latvia’s
parliament passed a Holocaust restitution bill that includes
compensation for lost Jewish property and funding to revitalize the
Baltic nation’s Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped
out during World War II.
   (AP, 2/10/22)  Â
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Lebanon’s
government approved the state budget for the current year, with a
17% deficit.
   (AP, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Libya's divisions
seemed poised to deepen as the eastern-based parliament named Fathi
Bashagha as the new prime minister, with incumbent Abdulhamid
al-Dbeibah refusing to step aside.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Mexican journalist
Heber Lopez was shot and killed at his recording studio in the
southern state of Oaxaca. Two people were arrested in relation with
the crime, though the investigation was still ongoing.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, New Zealand police
arrested 120 people as they attempted to forcefully remove hundreds
of protesters camped outside parliament to protest COVID-19 vaccine
mandates and tough coronavirus restrictions.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that religious police in Nigeria have destroyed nearly four million
bottles of beer in a crackdown on alcohol in the northern city of
Kano.
   (BBC, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, International aid
organizations said the COVAX global COVID-19 vaccine-sharing program
has scaled back the number of doses allocated for North Korea, as
the country has so far failed to arrange for any shipments.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Russia began 10
days of military exercises in Belarus and the Black Sea following
its troop buildup near Ukraine.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Saudi Arabia 12
people were injured at the Abha airport by shrapnel from an
explosive-laden drone intercepted by air defenses.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Somalia a
suicide bomber targeting a minibus full of delegates involved in
parliamentary elections killed at least six people in Mogadishu. The
Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, South African
President Cyril Ramaphosa said his government wants to expand its
nascent domestic cannabis industry as it looks to tap global demand
and grow local production and exports.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Spain lifted a
requirement to wear face masks outdoors as COVID-19 infections
continue to recede from record heights but some Spaniards, wary of
contagion, chose to keep the face coverings on.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Sudanese
protesters marched in neighborhoods across the capital and the
country in protest at October's military coup and a wave of
political detentions.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Hundreds of truck
drivers were stuck in a blockade of a major export route out of
Sudan into Egypt, hampering exports of camels and other livestock as
opposition to a military takeover has fueled festering grievances
over trade. The blockade began last month after Sudan sharply raised
electricity prices for farmers.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, It was reported
that Sudanese activists have taken to social media to appeal for
help for a neglected, government-run orphanage in Khartoum, where
local authorities said 54 children have died over the past three
months.
   (AP, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Ships were
deployed in Thailand to contain a fresh oil spill off its eastern
coast, two weeks after an undersea pipeline leak in the same area
damaged coastal communities and marine life. An estimated 1,320
gallon was believed to have leaked from an underwater pipeline at a
mooring point that was undergoing repairs.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)(SFC, 2/12/22, p.A3)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In the UAE
hundreds of Afghans launched a rare protest at a Gulf facility in
Abu in Abu Dhabi where they have been housed since fleeing their
homeland last year, holding banners pleading for freedom and
demanding to be sent to the United States.
   (Reuters, 2/10/22)
2022Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, The UN Security
Council refused to condemn the military takeover in Burkina Faso
last month or call it a coup, instead adopting a weak statement
expressing “serious concern about the unconstitutional change of
government” in the West African nation.
   (AP, 2/10/22)
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