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| | | Kibaki and Odinga sign an agreement, brokered by Kofi Annan, to share power in a Kenyan coalition government | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After 12 years in hiding the Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic, wanted for war crimes, is found in disguse and is arrested in Belgrade | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Georgian armed forces enter the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia, provoking a powerful armed response from Russia | |
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| 2008 |
| | | In the Beijing Olympics swimmer Michael Phelps wins 8 gold medals, beating Mark Spitz's record of 7 in the 1972 games | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Nine years after seizing power in a coup, Pervez Musharraf resigns as president of Pakistan under threat of impeachment | |
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| 2008 |
| | | With troops now stationed in the breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia unilaterally recognizes both as independent republics | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Hurricane Hanna causes more than 500 deaths in Haiti before moving on west to the United States (where it kills 7) | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Archaeologists from Tübingen discover the Hohle Fels Venus, about 38,000 years old and the earliest known figurative sculpture in Europe | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, is elected president of Pakistan | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The US government intervenes to rescue two important financial government sponsored enterprises, Fannie May and Freddie Mac | |
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