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According to reports released by the U.S. Labor Department, 163,000 jobs were added to the economy in the month of July, and although the number higher than anticipated, there was a rise in the unemployment from 8.2 percent to 8.3 percent.

On Thursday, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan announced his resignation due to rising complications with his six-point peace plan in solving the Syria crisis. Annan told CNN News that “increasing militarization on the ground" and "the clear lack of unity with in the UN Security Council”

On Thursday, in the biggest patent infringement lawsuit between tech titans Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., Apple urged U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh that Samsung deliberately leaked material that was dismissed from court evidence in order to get an upper hand in the case.