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A human rights group said Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq routinely torture detainees with methods including electric shock and hold them in overcrowded facilities without formal charges or access to legal aid.
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A Los Angeles jury awarded $6.2 million to firefighter Brenda Lee, who said she was harassed by colleagues because she is black and a lesbian. The harassment she said included someone mixing urine with her mouthwash.
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Afghan and NATO forces clashed with Taliban militants in the southern Zhari district of Kandahar overnight, leaving 33 suspected insurgents dead. US-led coalition troops killed a suspected militant and detained two others during an operation in eastern Afghanistan. Yousuf Ibrahim (35), from Saudi Arabia, was detained after a brief scuffle with police in Kabul. He had spent the last 8 years in Afghanistan, fighting alongside the Taliban.
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Boots Randolph (80), tenor sax player, died in Nashville, Tenn. His 1963 hit “Yakety Sax, written with guitarist James Rich,” became the theme song for television’s “The Benny Hill Show.”
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British police focused on at least four physicians with roots outside Britain, including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket, in the investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London.
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China issued guidelines restricting organ transplants for foreigners, giving priority to Chinese patients in the government's latest effort to regulate procedures that have been criticized as profit-driven and unethical. Officials said that Chinese inspectors have found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children's snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals.
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Fumio Kyuma, Japan's defense minister, resigned under an avalanche of criticism for suggesting that the United States was justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the attacks saved Japan from a Soviet invasion.
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- Current / Future Events
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1988 –
Kanon Wakeshima, Japanese singer/cellist
1987 –
Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
1985 –
Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor.
1984 –
Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
1984 –
Manny Lawson, American Football player
1984 –
Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
1983 –
Steph Jones, American singer and model
1982 –
Kanika, Indian actress
1980 –
Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
1980 –
Kevin Boyle, American basketballer
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July, 3
- Births
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2008,
Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
2008,
Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
2008,
Clive Hornby, English soap actor Jul 3 Emmerdale (b. 1944)
2008,
Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)
2007,
Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007,
Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
2006,
Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006,
Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2005,
Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005,
Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
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July, 3
- Deaths
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