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A state funeral is held in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the internment of the remains of Czar Nicholas II, his family, and servants, who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
3 Aug.
Serbian security forces burn Albanian towns in Kosovo. An estimated 180,000 people have been displaced since the conflict started in March.
5 Aug.
The Iraqi parliament calls for an end to the oil embargo and an immediate freeze on the activities of U.N. weapons inspectors.
7 Aug.
A car bomb explodes outside the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 240 are killed and 5,000 injured. Another terrorist bomb kills 10 at the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
11 Aug.
In the biggest industrial merger in history, British Petroleum announces the takeover of U.S. oil company Amoco.
12 Aug.
King Hussein of Jordan, in an American hospital for cancer treatment, delegates domestic powers to his brother, Crown Prince Hasan.
13 Aug.
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