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clipped from www.hindu.com| Feb. 3 | Over 1,300 people are killed after an Egyptian cruise liner sinks in the Red Sea between Duba in Saudi Arabia and Safaga in Egypt. | Full Story |
| Feb. 4 | The IAEA votes to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council at the Board of Governors meeting in Vienna. | Full Story |
| India backs resolution. | Full Story | |
| At least 73 persons are killed and 400 injured in a stampede at a stadium in Pasig city near the Philippines capital Manila, the venue of "Wowowee", a popular game show. | Full Story | |
| New Delhi and Manila sign a defence accord after President Abdul Kalam holds talks with his Filipino counterpart Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. | Full Story | |
| Protesters set afire the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Syria reacting to the publication of a series of cartoons on the Prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten by Kurt Westergaard. | Full Story | |
| Feb. 5 | Iran stops cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. | Full Story |
| Feb. 6 | Stephen Harper is sworn in Canadian Prime Minister. | |
| Feb. 7 | Haitians cast ballots in the country's first Presidential election in nearly six years. | Full Story |
| New Delhi and Seoul agree to conclude economic agreement by 2007 on the occasion of the first ever visit by an Indian Head of State to South Korea. | Full Story | |
| Feb. 9 | The 56th Berlin International Film Festival opens to great fanfare with the world premiere of Snow Cake. | Full Story |
| Feb. 10 | A new tomb is discovered in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, the first since the 1922 unravelling of King Tutankhamun's tomb. | Full Story |
| Feb. 11 | U.S. Adventurer Steve Fossett completes the longest non-stop flight in aviation history after flying around the globe in roughly 80 hours. | Full Story |
| Feb. 12 | Sophiatown once dubbed the Harlem of South Africa and named Triomf by the apartheid regime gets back old name. | Full Story |
| Feb. 13 | The Nepal Supreme Court dissolves the Royal Commission for Corruption Control and orders release of former Premier Sher Bahadur Deuba. | Full Story |
| Feb. 15 | The French President Jacques Chirac orders home the asbestos laden ship Clemenceau bound for India. | Full Story |
| Pakistan ratifies the South Asia Free Trade Agreement. | Full Story | |
| The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, pushes through law against "glorifying terrorism". | Full Story | |
| Feb. 16 | Rene Preval is declared elected Haiti President. | |
| Feb. 17 | Over 1,800 people, including 300 children are killed in a mud slide in the Filipino village of Guinsaugon on Leyte island. | Full Story |
| The Thar Express linking Rajasthan with the Sindh province in Pakistan is flagged off from Karachi cantonment station. It is the first direct link between southern Pakistan and India. | Full Story | |
| Feb. 18 | A Palestinian Parliament dominated by the Hamas in sworn in in Ramallah. Aziz Dweik is appointed Speaker. | Full Story |
| France signs a Rs. 700 crore deal with Kingfisher Airlines for 15 aircraft, in Thailand in the presence of President, Jacques Chirac. | Full Story | |
| Feb. 19 | Israel freezes contacts with the Palestinian Authority and puts a block on the transfer of funds. Hamas names Ismail Haniyeh to be the next Palestinian Prime Minister. | Full Story |
| Feb. 20 | The British Nazi apologist and revisionist historian David Irving is jailed for three years for his 1989 speech calling for an end to the "gas chambers fairy tale, following a trial in Austria. | Full Story |
| Feb. 22 | Four armed men bomb the 1,000-year-old Al-Askari mosque, which houses the tombs of two Shia Imams, in the Iraqi city of Samarra. Fortysix persons, including three journalists killed in sectarian violence. | Full Story |
| The Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE commence peace talks on the outskirts of Geneva. | Full Story | |
| Feb. 23 | Gunmen kill 47 factory workers after pulling them out of buses near Baquba not far from Baghdad. | Full Story |
| Ugandans cast ballots in landmark presidential and parliamentary polls. | ||
| Feb. 24 | The Thai Premier, Thaksin Shinawatra, calls for snap polls a year after winning a massive parliamentary majority. | Full Story |
| The Philippines President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares emergency after a coup plot is crushed. | Full Story | |
| Feb. 25 | Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, wins the nation's first multi-party polls since 1980. | |
| Feb. 27 | The World Court at The Hague begins hearing into the State sponsored genocide of non-Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. | |
| There is no evidence of Tehran having diverted material for making nuclear weapons, says the International Atomic Energy Agency. | Full Story | |
| Taiwan decides to cease the function of National Unification Council. | Full Story | |
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