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• 1. OBAMA PICKS VA CHIEF
• If confirmed by the Senate, Robert McDonald, a former Proctor & Gamble executive, would succeed Eric Shinseki, who quit last month as head of the struggling agency.
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• 2. ISLAMIC STATE DECLARED
• The vast territory straddling Syria and Iraq that has been seized by an al-Qaida splinter group will be established as a state, the group announces.
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• 3. REPORT SAYS PISTORIUS WAS NOT MENTALLY ILL WHEN HE SHOT GIRLFRIEND
• The murder trial of the former Olympic athlete resumes in Pretoria after he underwent psychiatric examinations for a month.
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• 4. PAKISTAN LAUNCHES GROUND OFFENSIVE AGAINST TALIBAN
• After evacuating half a million civilians, the army began its long-awaited operation in North Waziristan, the sanctuary for terrorist groups.
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• 5. OPERATOR OF SUNKEN KOREAN FERRY HAS QUESTIONABLE SAFETY RECORD
• The company was responsible for five earlier crashes which should have been enough for regulators to suspend its license.
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• 6. BELGIUM BRINGS TOUGH DEFENSE TO CLASH WITH U.S. ON TUESDAY
• So far, the Belgians haven't conceded one goal in open play at this World Cup.
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• 7. WHO RARELY GETS FIRED
• House and Senate lawmakers may be wildly unpopular, but more than halfway through the party primaries, the score is incumbents 291, challengers 2.
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• 8. WHY VROOM! MIGHT BECOME SOUND OF THE PAST
• More manufacturers -- even Harley-Davidson -- are making or planning to make electric motorcycles.
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• 9. WHOSE BOOK WON'T BE SOLD IN CHINA
• A Chinese book importer is scrapping plans to distribute Hillary Clinton's State Department memoir, "Hard Choices," because it found some of its content sensitive.
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