Emily Taylor

Bomb attacks hit a Damascus suburb which is the site of Syria’s holiest Shia shrine, killing at least 12 people, state media reports.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela’s electoral council says more than 1.3m people who signed a petition for a referendum to oust President Maduro will have to confirm their identities.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Britain’s EU referendum could lead to the break-up of the European Union itself, Sweden’s foreign minister tells the BBC.
BBC News – Europe

Thousands turn out to cheer the Queen as she appears in a vivid green coat and hat for the Trooping of the Colour on her official 90th birthday.
BBC News – UK

Speakers pay stirring tributes to Muhammad Ali at a memorial in his home city of Louisville, after thousands cheered his funeral cortege.
BBC News – US & Canada

Libyan forces say they have recaptured the port in the city of Sirte, after fierce fighting with militants from so-called Islamic State.
BBC News – Africa

The A’s selected Florida left-hander A.J. Puk with the sixth overall section of the 2016 Draft on Thursday.
OAK Homepage News

The downturn in the UK oil and gas sector is expected to have led to 120,000 job losses by the end of the year, according to a report.
BBC News – Business

The first deliveries of food aid since 2012 reach the besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya.
BBC News – Middle East

The economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski wins a cliff-hanger presidential election in Peru, but unclear ballots must be settled by electoral court.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

French President Francois Hollande warns against attempts to disrupt Euro 2016 with strike action, as the football tournament prepares for its opening match.
BBC News – Europe

Leaving the EU would lead to an emergency budget, more cuts in public spending and tax rises, senior Labour figures will claim.
BBC News – UK

US President Barack Obama officially endorses Hillary Clinton as Democratic Party presidential nominee.
BBC News – US & Canada

Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it has killed 60 Ethiopian soldiers in an attack on an African Union base in Somalia.
BBC News – Africa

Milwaukee starter Chase Anderson took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and Scooter Gennett drove in three runs as the Brewers completed a two-game sweep of the A’s with a 4-0 win on Wednesday night.
OAK Homepage News

One third of WPP investors have failed to back Sir Martin Sorrell’s £70m pay deal at the advertising firm’s annual general meeting.
BBC News – Business

Three people have been killed and six wounded in a shooting by two gunmen at a shopping centre in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazil’s chief prosecutor seeks the arrest of top politicians from the party of interim president Michel Temer, local media say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Austria’s far right Freedom Party lodges a challenge to last month’s presidential poll, which it narrowly lost, citing numerous irregularities.
BBC News – Europe

Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell is branded “a liar” who threatened “to kill” the retailer’s chief executive, by managers appearing before MPs.
BBC News – UK