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| Protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drive President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali from power after 23-year rule. | |
| Final referendum results in this soon-to-be country show 98.8 percent of ballots cast were for secession from north part of country. | |
| Pro-democracy protesters bring down leader with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. | |
| Following a 6.3 earthquake, emergency workers search for signs of life in the rubble of this Pacific nation's 3rd-largest city. 183 die in the quake. | |
| Magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami strike northeastern coast, a combined disaster that kills nearly 20,000 people and causes grave damage to a nuclear power station. | |
| Jets from this country's military target Gadhafi's forces, launching a broad international effort in support of Libyan uprising that seemed near defeat. | |
| Tornado causes more than 160 deaths; the monstrous storm, with winds up to 250 mph, damages or destroys about 8,000 homes and businesses. | |
| Prince William and Kate Middleton marry amid pomp, circumstance and elaborate hats. | |
| Osama bin Laden is killed in a firefight with elite American forces at his compound. | |
| Health officials link contaminated vegetable sprouts from a farm in this country to the world's deadliest E. coli bacteria outbreak, which eventually kills more than 50. | |
| Gunman massacres 69 people at an island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in the nearby capital that kills eight others, the nation's worst violence since World War II. | |
| Insurgents down a U.S. military helicopter, killing 38 people, including 30 Americans, the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-old war. | |
| President Mahmoud Abbas says he will ask the U.N. to endorse his people's long quest for statehood but emphasizes that he does not seek to isolate or delegitimize this country. | |
| Two Americans detained by border guards during a July 2009 hike are freed, a month after convicting the two as spies. | |
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| The king of this country decrees that women will for the first time have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015. | |
| The Nobel Peace Prize goes to three women: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, both of this country, and Tawakkul Karman, of Yemen. | |
| The 42-year dictator of this country is killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelm his hometown and capture the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell. | |
| A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the eastern portion of this country, killing more than 600 people. | |
| Monks and soldiers pile sandbags outside the capital's most treasured temples and palaces amid worst floods in decades. | |
| Prime minister and main opposition leader agree to form an interim government, after the country faced a catastrophic default, which roiled international markets. | |
| The premier of this country resigns, ending a political era and setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing the country back from the brink of economic crisis. | |
| Opposition conservatives sweep into power as voters dump the Socialists — the third time in as many weeks Europe's debt crisis has claimed a government. | |
| President Saleh agrees to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power. | |
| The Arab League approves economic sanctions on this country, to pressure the government to end its deadly suppression of an 8-month-old uprising against Assad. | |
| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a ground-breaking visit, challenges the nation's leaders to expand upon recent reforms. | |
| Tens of thousands hold the largest anti-government protests in over 20 years, criticizing electoral fraud and demanding an end to the prime minister's rule. | |
| The flag used by U.S. forces is lowered in a ceremony marking the end of a war that left over 100,000 dead and cost more than $800 billion. | |
| This country's leader, whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, dies. | |
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