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The US attorney general is to travel to the riot-hit town of Ferguson, as the authorities step up efforts to restore calm amid a tense stand-off.
BBC News – US & Canada

Liberia admits 17 suspected Ebola patients are “missing” after a health centre was attacked, as the UN calls for stricter screening at airports.
BBC News – Africa

A new tax on alcohol to fund abstinence-based treatment is among a number of measures to tackle drink and drug addiction recommended by a think tank.
BBC News – Business

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are largely in control of the Mosul dam previously held by Islamic State militants, Kurdish officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

A group of victims of five decades of conflict in Colombia for the first time join government negotiators and Farc rebel leaders at peace talks.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The first lorries from a Russian aid convoy to eastern Ukraine reach the border in a separatist-controlled area, but it is not known if it will cross over.
BBC News – Europe

Migrants rescued from a container at Tilbury docks in Essex are understood to be Afghans of the Sikh faith and had undergone a “horrific ordeal”, police say.
BBC News – UK

Missouri governor Jay Nixon criticises police for releasing CCTV footage which apparently shows shooting victim Michael Brown stealing from a shop.
BBC News – US & Canada

An Ebola quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia is attacked by protesters, prompting at least 20 patients to leave the unit.
BBC News – Africa

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The UK economy grew by 3.2% in the second quarter compared with the same period last year, slightly higher than the original 3.1% estimate.
BBC News – Business

Islamic State militants in northern Iraq massacre at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abduct women and children, reports say.
BBC News – Middle East

A black box recording from the plane crash that killed Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos is not of his flight, the air force says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russia’s defence secretary gives a guarantee to his US counterpart there are no military personnel in its aid convoy for Ukraine, the US says.
BBC News – Europe

A man dies after more than 30 people were found in a container at Tilbury Docks in Essex, police say.
BBC News – UK

Police confront protesters in the US state of Missouri, as tensions rise after police reveal a black teenager they shot was a robbery suspect.
BBC News – US & Canada

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring under control, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says.
BBC News – Africa

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Stagnating growth in the eurozone has put pressure on the European Central Bank to take further measures to boost the economic bloc, say analysts.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki is to step aside in favour of Haider al-Abadi, ending the country’s political deadlock, state TV says.
BBC News – Middle East