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• 2. U.N. ENVOY MEETS WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT
• Kofi Annan is trying to salvage a peace plan he brokered more than a month ago. His meeting today with President Bashar Assad follows a massacre last week that killed more than 100 people and sparked international outrage.
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• 3. NEW EARTHQUAKE SHAKES NORTHERN ITALY
• An Italian news agency reports eight are dead from a 5.8 magnitude quake that hit early today about 25 miles northwest of Bologna. That is the same region struck May 20 by a 6.0 quake that toppled old buildings and killed seven people.
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• 4. OBAMA TO AWARD PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
• At 3:25 p.m., the nation's highest civilian honor will go to more than a dozen honorees, including Madeleine Albright, John Glenn and Bob Dylan.
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