Karzai leads murdered brother's funeral Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:43 PM PDT Thousands mourn for Ahmed Wali Karzai, an influential figure whose death has shocked those close to Afghan president.  
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Death toll in Russian boat disaster reaches 100 Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:02 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - The confirmed death toll in a Russian riverboat accident reached 100 on Wednesday after divers recovered more bodies from the sunken vessel, an Emergency Situations Ministry official said.  
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Death toll in Russian boat disaster reaches 100 (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:02 PM PDT Reuters - The confirmed death toll in a Russian riverboat accident reached 100 on Wednesday after divers recovered more bodies from the sunken vessel, an Emergency Situations Ministry official said.  
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China websites fall victim to new controls: study (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:56 PM PDT AFP - The number of Chinese websites fell dramatically last year after the government tightened controls on the Internet, according to a new study by a leading state-run research institute.  
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Somalis flee to Kenya in search of food Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:23 PM PDT Al Jazeera gains access to Somali border town where thousands of refugees facing starvation are trying to get to Kenya.  
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Search suspended for Americans off Mexico Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:16 PM PDT The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday for seven Americans who have been missing since a charter fishing boat sank off the coast of Mexico nine days ago.  
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Afghan president in volatile south to bury slain brother (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:19 PM PDT Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai led thousands of mourners under heavy security on Wednesday to the funeral of his influential brother whose assassination the previous day has left a power vacuum in the volatile southern province of Kandahar.  
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Bin Laden was in on 2005 and 2006 London plots (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT Reuters - Osama bin Laden was aware of the plot in which al Qaeda militants bombed London transport facilities on July 7, 2005, but it was the last successful operation he played a role in, U.S. government experts have concluded.  
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Why Being Forced into Military Labor Can Be a Death Sentence for Convicts in Burma (Time.com) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:55 PM PDT Time.com - A new Human Rights Watch report documents the Burmese government's pervasive and systematic use of civilian inmates as porters in frontline battle, where they are subjected to brutality and deadly encounters on a daily basis  
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Israel's high court asked to overturn boycott law (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:09 PM PDT AP - An Israeli peace group has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn a controversial law banning boycotts of West Bank settlements.  
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Philippines: No word from 2 Americans' abductors (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:17 PM PDT AP - Philippine officials say they have received no word from abductors of a naturalized American woman, her teenage son and their Filipino nephew a day after they were seized by suspected Muslim militants.  
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Bin Laden was in on 2005 and 2006 London plots Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden was aware of the plot in which al Qaeda militants bombed London transport facilities on July 7, 2005, but it was the last successful operation he played a role in, U.S. government experts have concluded.  
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Bernanke to face grilling on jobs, debt, Europe (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:26 PM PDT Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke goes to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify about the sputtering recovery, but may have to spend much of his time convincing a stubborn Congress to raise the debt ceiling.  
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Rights group: Myanmar uses 'convict slave labor' (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:44 PM PDT AP - A leading international human rights group slammed Myanmar's army Wednesday for forcing prison inmates onto the front lines of the country's conflict with ethnic militias, using some as human shields and executing others who tried to escape.  
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Afghan president in volatile south to bury slain brother Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:19 PM PDT KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai led thousands of mourners under heavy security on Wednesday to the funeral of his influential brother whose assassination the previous day has left a power vacuum in the volatile southern province of Kandahar.  
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Can Computer Algorithms Determine Who Wrote the Bible? Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:24 PM PDT Computer scientists at Bar-Ilan University have developed a computer program that may help untangle  
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Briton scoops record 185 million euros in lottery (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:22 PM PDT AFP - A Briton won a record 185 million euros in the Euro Millions lottery, lottery operator Camelot announced.  
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18 dead in bloody Ciudad Juarez day (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:11 PM PDT AP - At least 18 people including a preteen boy have died in a single day of cartel violence in Ciudad Juarez.  
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Libyan Rebels Accused of Looting and Pillaging (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:12 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire -  
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Indonesian workers end strike at biggest gold mine (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:24 PM PDT AP - Thousands of workers at one of the world's biggest gold and copper mines started returning to work Wednesday, ending a nearly two-week strike that brought operations to a standstill.  
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