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Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is published.
Dorit Rabinyan's novel Persian Brides is published.
Ying Chen's novel Ingratitude is published.
Seamus Heaney's Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 is published.
5 Jan.
Amnesty International reports that more than eighty thousand people had died as a result of fighting in Algeria since 1992.
25 Jan.
Tamil Tigers bomb Sri Lanka'a holiest shrine, the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing eleven.
28 Jan.
Twenty-six people are sentenced to death in India for their involvement in the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
3 Feb.
A U.S. military aircraft accidentally cuts a wire supporting a cable car at an Italian ski resort; twenty people are killed.
4 Feb.
Four thousand people are reported killed after an earthquake strikes northern Afghanistan.
13 Feb.
In Australia a constitutional convention votes in favor of holding a referendum on ending links with the British Commonwealth.
16 Feb.
A Taiwanese A-300 Airbus...
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