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| | | US President Bush signs into law a $700 billion emergency fund to purchase failing bank assets | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Tribal violence against Kikuyu supporters of Kibaki follows his insistence, against independent evidence, that he has won Kenya's presidential election | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Italian prime minister Romano Prodi resigns after a foreign policy defeat in the Senate | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Stock markets plunge around the world as fears grow over the US subprime mortgage crisis | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Australian prime minister Kevn Rudd formally apologizes to the 'Stolen Generations' | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After 49 years as president of Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns for reasons of ill health | |
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| 2008 |
| | | President Musharraf's party is heavily defeated. with Opposition parties winning more than half the seats in Pakistan's general election | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The National Assembly elects Fidel Castro's brother Raúl to succeed him as president of Cuba | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The New York Philharmonic performs in North Korea, in the first significant cultural contact between USA and North Korea since the Korean War | |
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| 2008 |
| | | John McCain claims the Republican presidential nomination in a victory speech in Dallas | |
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