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Obama's plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghan military bases by the end of 2016. • • 3. ASSASSIN OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN CROWN PRINCE STILL STIRS CONTROVERSY IN BALKANS • A century after the shot that sparked World War I, there is little agreement about Gavrilo Princip, the baby-faced Serb teenager who killed Franz Ferdinand. • • 4. WHAT MAKES INDIAN TOP CIVIL SERVANTS NERVOUS • Many of the country's bureaucrats feel uneasy about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's order to do all official work in Hindi. • • 5. FORMER GUARD ACCUSED OF CRIMES AT AUSCHWITZ • The 89-year-old Philadelphia man has said he was stationed outside the Nazi camp and wasn't responsible for the deaths of Jews and others. • • 6. COLORADO EX-LAWMAN FACES SENTENCING • After a shocking fall from grace in meth-for-sex scandal, former "top sheriff" Patrick Sullivan, 71, repeatedly fails drug tests while on probation for that case. • • 7. AMAZON TRIES TO BLAZE NEW TRAIL WITH FIRE PHONE • The device has many features that are practically smartphone industry standards, but breaks ground in other areas that could make it a magic wand for shoppers. • • 8. WHO SEEKS PROTECTIONS FOR WITNESSES • Shelly Sterling's attorneys will ask a judge to order Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling to stop threatening and harassing his wife's legal team. • • 9. GOOGLE GOADS GIRLS TOWARD GEEKDOM • The tech behemoth leads non-profits in a campaign called "Made with Code" that aims to balance gender disparity in the computer programming field-and on its own staff. • • 10. CHEERING FOR MEXICO, BUT GOING HOME TO U.S. • The number of fans waving the green-white-and-red at the World Cup surprises observers in Brazil, but talk to the supporters, and it becomes clear they came from (Continued on page 25)
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