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Current events of
February 12, 2008
(
2008-02-12
)
(Tuesday)
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United States presidential election, 2008
:
Illinois
Senator
Barack Obama
wins the
District of Columbia
,
Maryland
and
Virginia
Democratic
primaries
. Obama now leads Sen.
Hillary Clinton
in the
delegate
count for the first time since early in the campaign.
2006
/POLITICS/02/12/potomac.primaries/index.html (CNN)
2006
/02/12/us/politics/12cnd-campaign.html (
The New York Times
)
Arizona
Senator
John McCain
wins the
District of Columbia
,
Maryland
and
Virginia
Republican
primaries.
(
The New York Times
)
European Space Agency
's
Columbus module
is attached to the
International Space Station
.
(
The New York Times
)
The
U.S. Senate
votes to grant
immunity
to
telecommunications companies
for their role in
NSA call database
.
(
The New York Times
)
Chilean
opera singer
Ernesto "Tito" Beltran
is sentenced to two years in jail by a
Swedish
court for
rape
during a concert tour in 1999.
(BBC News)
Russia
and
Ukraine
resolve a dispute over Ukraine's
natural gas
debt which saw
Gazprom
threatening to cut off supplies.
(AFP)
Members of the
Writers Guild of America
vote to end the
WGA strike
that had been in effect for just over three months.
(CNN)
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