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The Syrian military declares a 72-hour “regime of calm” covering the whole country, though there are reports of continuing fighting outside Damascus.
BBC News – Middle East

Hundreds of Venezuelan women push past border guards to cross into Colombia to buy food and goods which are scarce in Venezuela.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Argentina and Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi and his father are sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud, but will probably avoid jail.
BBC News – Europe

The UK’s Iraq War inquiry says Tony Blair overstated Saddam Hussein’s threat, sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had “wholly inadequate” plans for the aftermath.
BBC News – UK

The US Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into a fatal police shooting of a black man in Louisiana.
BBC News – US & Canada

South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
BBC News – Africa

A’s catcher Stephen Vogt has been named an American League All-Star for a second consecutive season. Vogt was announced as a reserve to AL manager Ned Yost’s club on Tuesday in anticipation of next week’s […]

Oklahoma City, Tuesday, July 5, 2016 – Oklahoma City Thunder mascot Rumble the Bison will today travel to Spain to suppo
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Ryan Dull is quietly making history with his magician-like handling of inherited runners.
OAK Homepage News

The former owner of failed High Street retailer BHS has described the £2.6m he took out of the company as a “drip in the ocean” in an interview with BBC Newsnight.
BBC News – Business

A suicide bomber has killed four security officers and injured five near one of Islam’s holiest sites in the Saudi city of Medina, the government says.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announces that from Monday the power rationing which has been in force for the past two months will be lifted.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

French intelligence services should be overhauled in the wake of the 2015 Paris attacks, a parliamentary commission of inquiry has recommended.
BBC News – Europe

Conservative MPs are to begin the first round of voting to replace David Cameron as party leader and UK prime minister.
BBC News – UK

The US space agency’s Juno probe puts itself in orbit around Jupiter, ready to undertake a survey of what lies beneath the giant planet’s obscuring clouds.
BBC News – US & Canada

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene of the 1976 Entebbe hostage rescue, in which his brother, who led the raid in Uganda, was killed.
BBC News – Africa

Thunder Chairman Clayton I. Bennett: 
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The Pirates got a two-run home run from David Freese and another strong outing from the bullpen in topping the A’s on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep.
OAK Homepage News

The defensive pressure on the side out of bounds pass was suffocating, and as the ball floated in the air towards mid-court, Mitch McGary
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Chancellor George Osborne plans to cut corporation tax to less than 15% to encourage businesses to still invest in the UK following the referendum vote.
BBC News – Business