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| U.S. State Department urges Egypt to respect right peaceful assembly | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department urged Egypt's interim government on Wednesday to respect the right of peaceful assembly, after Cairo's new leaders said vigils by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi threatened national security and were no longer acceptable. |
| No Rest for In-Form Snedeker in Hectic Tour Schedule | | | Most players tend to pace themselves with the occasional break heading into golf's big events but in-form Brandt Snedeker has no qualms about his plan to compete in every PGA Tour event left on the 2013 schedule. |
| Pop star Miley Cyrus says she's no "twerk queen" | | | LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. pop singer and former Disney television child star Miley Cyrus brushed off any suggestions that dropping her squeaky clean image was a sign she was "going off the rails". |
| Books of The Times David Rakoffs Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish | | | Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, the last book by David Rakoff, who died last year at 47, touches on love and hypocrisy, abuse, AIDS and the 80s all in a strict verse style. |
| Norway's Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans | | | SVOLVAER, Norway (Reuters) - Oil companies seeking new Arctic areas for exploration face a battle with environmentalists, fishermen and hotel owners over Norwegian islands where jagged snow-capped peaks rise sheer from the sea. |
| UPDATE 1-Canada minister defiant in pursuing wireless competition | | | OTTAWA, July 31 (Reuters) - Industry Minister James Moore, under pressure from Canada's big phone companies to curb the ability of Verizon Communications Inc to set up a wireless operation in Canada, pledged on Wednesday to stay the course in pursuing competition in the industry. |
| Wedding turns funeral | | | Authorites want to know how a power boat carrying bride-to-be Lindsey Stewart and her fiance's best man slammed into a construction barge north of Manhattan, throwing them from the boat. |
| How to nominate a CNN Hero | | | A CNN Hero's journey to global recognition begins with a nomination by someone who's been touched by their efforts. |
| Lost childhood in refugee camps | | | Yousef is two years old and lives in a refugee camp in Iraq. Her mother tells comedian and UNICEF ambassador Eddie Izzard that she wants to return to her country, but will not jeopardize her children's safety. With every day that passes in their life as a refugee, she fears that they are losing another day of their childhood. |
| Antibiotics Maker in Deals for 2 Rivals | | | After Cubist Pharmaceuticals announced it would buy Trius Therapeutics and Optimer Pharmaceuticals to strengthen its antibiotics portfolio, its shares rose in after-hours trading. |
| Bianchi's Single Gives Brewers DH Sweep of Cubs | | | Jeff Bianchi delivered a two-run single off shortstop Starlin Castro's glove with two out in the ninth to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs and a day-night doubleheader sweep on Tuesday. |
| Samantha Armstrong, Grant Blosser | | | The bride is a family nurse practitioner at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx; the groom is a vice president at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Manhattan. |
| U.N. Warns It Will Disarm Congo Rebels | | | In an uncharacteristically stern warning, the United Nations ordered individuals near the eastern city of Goma to turn in their weapons or be deemed an imminent threat to civilians. |
| 'The Wolverine' earns $55 million | | | Sometimes even earning the No. 1 spot can be seen as a modest disappointment, or at least that's what the new narrative around The Wolverine (CinemaScore A-) would have you believe. |
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