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Qatar is using a shadowy arms network to move shoulder-fired missiles to Syria, ignoring American warnings that they could fall into terrorist hands.
In an outpouring of rage against President Mohamed Morsi, a core of protesters set fire to the headquarters of Mr. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement in Cairo.
The rising popularity of the image in social media has further transformed the way we share our lives with one another. Photos, once slices of a moment in the past — sunsets, cappuccinos, the family vacation — are fast becoming an entirely new type of dialogue.
“Same Love,” a hit single from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, is the first Top 40 song to promote and celebrate gay marriage.
For many hourly workers, paper paychecks have been replaced by prepaid cards, which often involve fees that can quickly add up and take a bite out of their pay.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 26, 2013, covering June 30, 2013.
Black Sabbath
Daft Punk
Justin Timberlake
Big Time Rush
Florida Georgia Line
2013Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (born 1917)[†]
Alan Robertson Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway ERD QC was a British judge, barrister and author who sat in the House of Lords as a life peer.
2013Akpor Pius Ewherido, Nigerian politician (born 1963)[†]
Akpor Pius Ewherido was a Nigerian politician. He was elected Senator for Delta Central Senatorial District in the April 2011 national elections, running on the Democratic People's Party (DPP) platform.
2013Kathryn Morrison, American educator and politician (born 1942)[†]
Kathryn Morrison was an American educator and Democratic Party politician who was the first woman to be elected to serve in the Wisconsin Senate. Morrison was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and graduated from Madison East High School. Morrison was elected November 1974, seated January 1975 and served one term representing the 17th District.
2013Thompson Oliha, Nigerian footballer (born 1968)[†]
Thompson Oliha was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a midfielder for clubs in Africa and Europe during an injury-shortened career.
2013Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (born 1920)[†]
Sir Keith Douglas Seaman was Governor of South Australia from 1 September 1977 until 28 March 1982. He was the second successive governor to have been a minister of religion, Seaman being a minister in then recently merged Uniting Church in Australia.
2013Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.[†]
The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived —he was posted as a lookout on the fire and was not with the others when the fire overtook them. The Yarnell Hill Fire was one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires since the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, which killed 25 people, and the deadliest wildland fire for U.S. firefighters since the 1933 Griffith Park fire, which killed 29 "impromptu" civilian firefighters drafted on short notice to help battle the Los Angeles area fire.
2013Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.[†]
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-Ayyat was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who was the fifth president of Egypt, from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June. Affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]