10 things you need to know today: July 7, 2013

An Asiana Airlines passenger airplane lies burned on the runway after it crash landed at San Francisco International Airport July 6 in San Francisco.

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last updated 8 January 2015

1. SFO RUNWAYS PARTIALLY REOPEN AFTER 777 CRASH LANDING

Two runways have reopened at San Francisco International Airport, one day after an Asiana 777 aircraft crash landed at the airport, killing two passengers. The flight, which originated in Seoul, South Korea, was carrying several high-profile tech figures including Samsung executive David Eun and was originally Facebook CFO Sheryl Sandberg's flight back to the U.S. before she rescheduled her tickets. The two victims were teenagers from China. [USA Today, Huffington Post]

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As Egyptians clash in the streets of Cairo and around the country, Egypt's new president says pro-reform leader Mohamed El Baradei has not yet been appointed as interim prime minister despite earlier reports. An earlier announcement that El Baradei, a former head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, had been chosen, caused anger among deposed former President Morsi's supporters. According to presidential advisor Ahmed al-Muslimani, El Baradei is "the logical choice" among a list of names being considered. [BBC]

Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in Nigeria's embattled northeast before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and igniting it as students slept, survivors said. Authorities blamed the deadly attack on Boko Haram, a radical group whose name means "Western education is sacrilege." The militants have been behind a wave of recent attacks on schools in the northeast. [Washington Post]

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said Sunday that America should urge "calmness" in Egypt following the ousting of former Egypt President Mohammed Morsi. "I received a call from the administration, and I know they're involved in trying to calm all sides," the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Fox News Sunday via satellite from Afghanistan. "I think that's what our role should be." [Politico]

The president of Nicaragua offered to grant asylum to Edward Snowden, joining Venezuela in opening its doors to the NSA leaker. President Obama has publicly displayed a relaxed attitude toward Snowden's movements, saying last month that he wouldn't be "scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," but the drama surrounding the flight of Bolivian President Evo Morales, whose plane was abruptly rerouted to Vienna after apparently being denied permission to fly over France, suggests that pressure is being applied behind the scenes. [NBC News]

Whole Foods removed Crave Brothers cheese products from its shelves after the cheese company voluntarily recalled several lots of its products with production dates of July 1, 2013, or earlier due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Listeria was recently identified as the cause of one death and four others being sickened in four states; the Listeria was linked to cheese distributed by Wisconsin-based Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese Company. [Forbes]

NBA star Dwight Howard chose to leave the Los Angeles Lakers for the Houston Rockets, saying that Houston gave him the best chance at winning an NBA title. Former Laker Shaquille O'Neal criticized Howard's move, saying, "We've all been in L.A., and not a whole lot of people can handle being under the bright lights...I think it was a safe move for him to go to a little town like Houston. That's right, little town. I said it." [ESPN]

Terri is a freelance writer at TheWeek.com. She's a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and has worked at TIME and Brides. You can follow her on Twitter.

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