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decide whether to grant bond for Zimmerman.
• Samantha Scheibe claimed Zimmerman had smashed a glass table, threatened her with a shotgun and ultimately pushed her out of the house she rented.
• Scheibe told deputies the ordeal started with a verbal argument and that she asked Zimmerman to leave the house. Her account in the arrest report says he began packing his belongings, including a shotgun and an assault rifle. She says she began putting his things in the living room and outside the house, and he became upset. At that point, the report says, he took the shotgun out of its case.
• Zimmerman told his girlfriend to leave and smashed a pair of her sunglasses as she walked toward the front door, the report says. Scheibe told deputies he pushed her out of the house when she got close to the door.
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Foundation stone for memorial to Egyptians killed in uprising damaged in Cairo's Tahrir Square

• CAIRO (AP) -- Unknown assailants damaged early Tuesday the foundation in Cairo's famed Tahrir square for a future memorial dedicated to protesters killed in Egypt's revolutionary turmoil of the past 2 1/2 years.
• The attackers, mostly men in their early 20s, used rocks to chip away at the large foundation stone and sprayed it with red graffiti denouncing ousted President Mohammed Morsi and also Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the military chief who removed him in July after days of mass protests demanding that the Islamist leader step down.
• The attack underscored the deep scars left by the political turmoil in Egypt since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in 2011, with revolutionary groups feeling betrayed by successive governments whose main failures, in their view, was the inability to dismantle the Mubarak regime and ensure retribution for the hundreds of protesters killed at the hands of police and soldiers since 2011.
• Some of those who participated in that revolt and the mass anti-Morsi protests in June feel the memorial does not honor the dead as much as it tries to paper over the continuing deep disputes over Egypt's future. They say the military-backed interim government, which was brought to power after the July coup that ousted Morrsi is seeking to impose its control over what they see as an intrinsically anti-authoritarian space.
• The pre-dawn attack Tuesday came just hours after military-backed Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Biblawi inaugurated the foundation in a ceremony held

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