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    2014-07-09  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    1. U.S. Navy gets 1st 4-star female admiral

    The U.S. Navy promoted a woman to the rank of four-star admiral* for the first time in its 238-year history, a milestone for women in the American military.

    Michelle Howard was promoted to vice chief of naval operations in a ceremony on July 1, the No. 2 job in the service.

    Howard, 54, is known for commanding a counter-piracy task force in the Gulf of Aden that oversaw* the 2009 rescue of a commercial cargo ship skipper, Captain Richard Phillips, who was abducted* by Somali pirates.

    2. Suicide bomber kills 8 in Afghanistan

    A suicide bomber* killed eight people and wounded 13 on July 1 in an attack on a bus carrying military personnel in the Afghan capital of Kabul, officials said.

    The explosion happened in the downtown area near Kabul University.

    At least five of the dead were air force personnel, said Hashmat Stanekzai, a spokesman for Kabul’s police chief. Stanekzai said the bus had been the bomber’s target.

    3. 4 countries NSA couldn’t spy on

    The U.S. National Security Agency has been authorized to intercept* information “concerning” all but four countries worldwide, according to The Washington Post.

    “The United States has long had broad no-spying arrangements with those four countries — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand,” the Post reported on June 30.

    Yet “a classified 2010 legal certification and other documents indicate the NSA has been given a far more elastic* authority than previously known, one that allows it to intercept through U.S. companies not just the communications of its overseas targets but any communications about its targets as well.”

    4. Sarkozy hits back amid scandals

    France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy hit back after being charged with corruption, denying he broke the law and suggesting his political enemies were interfering with the French justice system.

    “I have never committed any act contrary to the values of the republic or the rule of law,” Sarkozy said on July 2 after he was charged on three corruption-related counts.

    Sarkozy decried what he called “political interference” in the case — a suggestion that opponents, such as the ruling Socialists were behind his legal woes.

    5. 11 die in Polish plane crash

    Eleven people were killed on Saturday after a plane taking them on a parachute jump crashed in southern Poland shortly after take off.

    One man in his forties survived and was taken to hospital in the city of Czestochowa in serious condition, 207 kilometers southwest of Warsaw.

    The plane, which had been operated by a private parachuting school, took off from the Rudniki airfield just outside Czestochowa.

    6. Shark bites man near U.S. beach

    A swimmer was bitten on Saturday by a white shark that tried to free itself from a hook a fisherman had thrown into the water off Southern California’s Manhattan Beach Pier.

    The man, who was with a group of long-distance swimmers when he swam into the fishing line, was bitten on a side of his rib cage*. The man’s injuries were not life-threatening.

    Witnesses said the approximately 2-meter shark was thrashing* around in the water for more than 30 minutes before biting the swimmer about 300 meters off the beach.

    7. American eats 61 hot dogs in 10 mins

    Joey Chestnut ate 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win his eighth consecutive championship, barely beating Matt Stonie at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island in New York City on July 4.

    Stonie, who was second in 2013 with 51 dogs, again was the runner-up* with 56. Tim “Eater X” Janus was third with 44.(SD-Agencies)

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