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- Former media mogul Conrad Black is released from prison in Miami after being locked up for just over three years for defrauding investors. (BBC)
- Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong's largest real estate developer, advises the markets that former chairman Walter Kwok was arrested for corruption and released on bail. (Reuters)
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- Activists say four students are killed in an attack on anti-government demonstrations at a Aleppo University, Syria. (Al Jazeera)
- Farhan Jeemis Abdulle, a Somali journalist and well-known local reporter for Radio Daljir is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Galkayo while walking to his home district of Garsor. Puntland authorities arrived on scene to investigate the killing but no arrests have been made. Abdulle is the fifth journalist to be murdered in Somalia this year, and the second in Galkayo. (Shabelle Media Network)
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- A man, believed by the media (but not confirmed) to be J. T. Ready, a Neo-Nazi, and a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, is among five individuals in Gilbert, Arizona, found dead with gunshot wounds. It is unclear what role he may have played in the apparent shootings, and what precise type they were, but he is believed to have shot the others and then himself in a possible murder-suicide. (MSNBC)
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