Portal:Current events/2005 February 12
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February 12, 2005 (Saturday)
- Protests against Faure Gnassingbé
- In Lome, Togo, thousands protest the army-installed President Faure Gnassingbé. Clashes with soldiers and police forces cause the deaths of three demonstrators. (Guardian) (Yahoo France - AP)
- A strain of HIV, known to be highly drug-resistant, is discovered in a New York City individual. Further alarming health officials is that the onset of AIDS began within a few months of his diagnosis, a process which ordinarily takes over ten years. The patient is known to have frequently taken methamphetamine, a mutagen. (CNN)
- Howard Dean, a former governor of Vermont and a 2004 U.S. presidential candidate, is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. (CNN)