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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: • 1. RUSSIA CALLS DEMAND FOR EXTRADITING SNOWDEN 'UNACCEPTABLE' • Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lashed out at the U.S. for warning negative consequences if Russia doesn't turn over the NSA leaker. • • 2. SEARCHING FOR SNOWDEN • Lavrov says Snowden hadn't crossed the Russian border. He didn't board a Cuba-bound flight he was registered on in Moscow and the country where he sought asylum doesn't know where he is. • • 3. ATTACK ON AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL PALACE • Taliban militants with military-style uniforms infiltrated one of the most secure areas of the capital; all eight attackers died. It wasn't clear whether Karzai was at the palace. • • 4. INTERNET SHUTDOWN ON KOREA ANNIVERSARY • Major websites in both North and South Korea crashed for hours on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Korean war. • • 5. WHAT PROSECUTORS WANT ZIMMERMAN JURY TO HEAR • They will ask a judge today to allow phone calls the ex-neighborhood watchman made to police about suspicious people in his neighborhood. • • 6. OBAMA'S CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN • The president will propose the first-ever carbon dioxide emission limits on new and existing power plants at a speech today. • • 7. IMMIGRATION TEST CLEARS WAY FOR SENATE VOTE • Senate passage of the overhaul that allows millions a chance at citizenship is likely this week, but House Republicans have shown little support.
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