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Chancellor George Osborne says local councils across England will be able to keep all proceeds from business rates.
BBC News – Business

More than 60 people are killed and many injured in at least three car bomb attacks in north and south Iraq, police and medical sources say.
BBC News – Middle East

Organisers of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games are making cutbacks of up to 30% to avoid going over budget, the BBC understands.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkey again summons the Russian ambassador after a second violation of its airspace by a Russian warplane operating in Syria in two days.
BBC News – Europe

The chief constable of Merseyside Police believes a police officer struck and killed by a stolen car “didn’t stand a chance”.
BBC News – UK

A leading US gun-control group calls for the resignation of the man leading the investigation into the deadly mass shooting in Oregon.
BBC News – US & Canada

Oscar Pistorius must remain in jail and not be transferred to house arrest after a decision to grant him parole was again delayed.
BBC News – Africa

The intensity was high, Thunder teammates getting after one another on the floor.
Oklahoma City Thunder

The Volkswagen emissions scandal was a “dramatic event” but would not inflict lasting damage on Germany’s reputation, Angela Merkel says.
BBC News – Business

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says a coalition between Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq must succeed “or else the whole region will be destroyed”.
BBC News – Middle East

The death toll from a landslide on a village 15km away from the Guatemalan capital rises to 73, with hundreds more feared missing, authorities say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

At least 16 people die after violent storms and flooding hit the French Riviera, including three elderly people who drowned in their retirement home.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron rejects calls to rethink cuts to tax credits for working families amid warnings millions will lose out.
BBC News – UK

A teenager survived the Oregon shooting because she was covered in another victim’s body and the attacker believed she was dead, her father says.
BBC News – US & Canada

The EU imposes sanctions on three Burundi officials accused of ordering the use of excessive force against protestors, along with a coup plotter.
BBC News – Africa

NBA players vividly remember their high school playing days, but on Sunday, they’ll get a chance to re-live those times.
Oklahoma City Thunder

During many of the hours that the team has spent together so far in U.S.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Are you likely to get the same performance from your car as the lab tests suggest?
BBC News – Business

Hundreds of troops are looking for Palestinians who shot dead an Israeli couple as they drove in the West Bank with their four children, Israel says.
BBC News – Middle East

Rescue workers in Guatemala search for hundreds of people missing after a mudslide hit a village near the capital, killing at least 26 people.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean