Craig Taylor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara faces charges over alleged misuse of state funds.
BBC News – Middle East

Soldiers were sent to almost 100 markets to check sellers were not overcharging amid hyperinflation.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The European Union has gone ahead with retaliatory duties against $ 2.8bn worth of US-made products.
BBC News – Europe

The European planemaker says no-deal Brexit would force it to reconsider its investments in the UK.
BBC News – UK

The US grapples with the issue of accommodation for migrant children, as Melania Trump visits Texas.
BBC News – US & Canada

Shirley Kordie’s brother Joseph is a “perfect” stem cell match and is ready to donate.
BBC News – Africa

Thursday night’s series opener between the White Sox and A’s at Guaranteed Rate Field has been postponed due to rain. It rained hard all morning in Chicago, and according to the forecast, the rain showed no signs […]

The A’s blasted back-to-back homers in consecutive innings for the first time since the Bash Brothers’ heyday of 1997 to take the finale in San Diego. Franklin Barreto, Josh Phegley, Mark Canha and Matt Olson […]

The move comes after President Donald Trump imposed steep duties on steel and aluminium in May.
BBC News – Business

War crimes were committed by both sides in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, investigators say.
BBC News – Middle East

A leak reveals administrators at the heart of the scandal could not identify owners of most firms involved.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Under the new so-called “Stop Soros” law, anyone who helps asylum seekers faces a year in jail.
BBC News – Europe

Relatives call for a criminal inquiry into the “unforgivable” actions at the Gosport hospital.
BBC News – UK

The order seeks to end the policy of splitting up undocumented parents and children at the border.
BBC News – US & Canada

Lord Sugar is criticised for an “unhelpful and ignorant” tweet comparing Senegal’s World Cup team to “beach sellers in Marbella”.
BBC News – Africa

A’s third baseman Matt Chapman, on the disabled list with a right thumb contusion, could pick up a bat on Thursday — so long as his cortisone shot cooperates.
OAK Homepage News

The threat escalates a tit-for-tat trade row with Beijing over US tariffs imposed on Chinese goods.
BBC News – Business

Gonen Segev was allegedly recruited as an agent by Israel’s arch-enemy Iran while he lived in Nigeria.
BBC News – Middle East

“Not on my watch,” says the US president, as his administration defends its immigration crackdown.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Several others were wounded in the attack a short distance from a police station.
BBC News – Europe