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July 21, 2013 (Sunday)

Hundreds of al-Qaeda prisoners escape during armed raids on two Iraqi prisons, including the Baghdad Central Prison (formerly known as Abu Ghraib). (The Telegraph)

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes under Cook Strait in New Zealand, causing moderate damage in the capital city Wellington. (Fairfax NZ)
Fifteen Egyptian Army soldiers are killed and another injured after their bus crashes into a truck on a highway on the Mediterranean coast. (AP via Montreal Gazette)

At least 12 people have been killed or wounded in a clash between two Muslim families in the province of Lanao del Sur in the southern Phillipines. (Mindanao Examiner)

Voters in Japan go to the polls for a House of Councillors (Japan's upper house) election with the governing coalition led by Shinzo Abe winning control of the upper house. (USA Today), (Bloomberg via Business Week)
King Albert II of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Prince Philippe. (AP)

In cycling, the 2013 Tour de France finishes today in Paris with Kenyan-born British rider Chris Froome winning his first Tour de France. (ABC News Australia)
In golf, American golfer Phil Mickelson wins the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield in Scotland for the first time. (Al-Jazeera), (AP via The Washington Post)
In motorcycling, the World Superbike Championship race at the Moscow Raceway is cancelled after the Italian rider Andrea Antonelli dies after a crash on the opening lap. (Guardian)

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 * A magnitude 6.5 earthquake [[2013 Cook Strait earthquake|strikes]] under [[Cook Strait]] in [[New Zealand]], causing moderate damage in the capital city [[Wellington]]. [http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8945358/Big-quake-shakes-central-New-Zealand (Fairfax NZ)]
-*Fifteen [[Egyptian Army]] soldiers are killed and another injured after their bus crashes into a truck on a highway on the [[Northern coast of Egypt|Mediterranean coast]]. [http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Egyptian+soldiers+killed+when+their+crashes+into+truck/8688288/story.html (AP via ''Montreal Gazette'')
+*Fifteen [[Egyptian Army]] soldiers are killed and another injured after their bus crashes into a truck on a highway on the [[Northern coast of Egypt|Mediterranean coast]]. [http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Egyptian+soldiers+killed+when+their+crashes+into+truck/8688288/story.html (AP via ''Montreal Gazette'')]
-;Chefs, on this day in 1996, the gastronomy king Bray, famous for his show locking down the Bray, in which he bitchslaps cocky icelandic women and occasionally cooks food, although he doesnt know what hes doing as he never attended cooking class. Locking down the Bray is said to have surpassed Jersey Shore in Class and Art as a tv show
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