Officials say a bodyguard has killed the powerful half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Ahmed Wali Karzai died in his home in Kandahar. (July 12)
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Somalis walking to find food and water are faced with a difficult and sometimes deadly journey in the face of a massive drought in the region. Aid agencies are calling for more assistance. (July 12)
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The FBI is investigation how a stun gun got onto a JetBlue plane, which departed from Boston’s Logan Airport and landed at Newark’s Liberty International Airport Friday night. (July 11)
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Robinson Cano of the Yankees outslugged Boston’s Adrian Gonzalez to win the All-Star Home Run Derby Monday night. Cano defeated Gonzalez 12-11 in the finals, after they each hit 20 home runs through two rounds. (July 12)
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Highlights of this day in history: Julius Caesar born; Walter Mondale taps Geraldine Ferraro as the first woman to run on a major party ticket for the White House; Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party; Comedian Bill Cosby born. (July 12)
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Authorities closed down a San Francisco train station where demonstrators gathered to condemn last week’s fatal shooting of a man by transit police during a confrontation. The station has since been reopened. (July 12)
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The National League tries for its second straight win in Major League Baseball’s All-Star game Tuesday night in Phoenix. (July 12)
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The AP’s Alicia Quarles joins the stars of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ for the film’s US premiere in New York. (July 11)
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Apple has today released the latest version of the iOS 5 beta, bringing along a host of bug fixes and some new features. One of those new features, as detailed by Chris Oldroyd over at TiPB, is a new gesture system that is part of iOS 5′s Accessibility features. The gesture system is a control Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 12/07/2011 01:23 Number of articles : 3
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Firefighters battled a four alarm fire at a synagogue in Manhattan that covered much of the Upper East Side in smoke. A local fire chief said about five firefighters suffered minor injuries. (July 11)
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