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•  8. DEADLY EXPLOSION ON INDIAN SUBMARINE
•  The Navy says some of the 18 sailors aboard have been killed by the blast that sent a huge fireball into the air and sent sailors jumping into the sea.
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•  9. ACTRESSES PUSH ANTI-PAPARAZZI LAW
•  Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner testified that the constant presence of photographers unfairly expose their children.
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•  10. WHERE WERE YOU DURING THE '03 BLACKOUT
•  An Ohio woman remembers the lights going out on her wedding day. The outage hit 50 million people from Michigan to New England.
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AP News in Brief

Egyptian security forces storm larger pro-Morsi protest camp, clear out smaller one in Cairo

•  CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian security forces, backed by armored cars and bulldozers, swept in Wednesday to clear two sit-in camps of supporters of the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out at both sites.
•  At least three members of the security forces were confirmed to have died in the morning's crackdown in Cairo, while the Health Ministry said nine protesters were killed and over 80 were injured.
•  The political arm of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood claimed that more than 500 protesters were killed and some 9,000 wounded in the two camps on opposite ends of the city, but there was no official confirmation of the Islamist group's figures. There was nothing in the footage provided by the Associated Press or local TV networks that suggests such a high death toll.
•  Mohammed el-Beltagy, a senior Brotherhood leader, put the death toll at more than 300 and called on the police and army troops to mutiny against their commanders and on Egyptians to take to the streets to show their disapproval of Wednes

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