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“Soft-touch” and “hazardous” doctors should be disciplined for prescribing too many antibiotics, a leading NHS figure says.
BBC News – UK

Oil and gas giant Shell has been granted the final permit it needs to begin drilling below the ocean floor for oil in the Arctic.
BBC News – US & Canada

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir fails to sign a peace deal with rebels, despite a deadline to do so or face sanctions.
BBC News – Africa

For years, two of the Thunder franchise’s cornerstone players have dedicated their time and energy in the offseason to honoring their cou
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The season starts and ends with a familiar Western Conference foe, but in between sit another 80 games that will challenge the Thunder at
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Some car insurance companies are charging “eye-watering” fees on top of annual premiums, according to the consumer organisation, Which?
BBC News – Business

At least 80 people have died after government air strikes on a marketplace in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, activists say.
BBC News – Middle East

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa declares a state of emergency over increasing activity at the Cotopaxi volcano.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Dozens of migrants on the Greek island of Kos begin registering on a passenger ship which will be their temporary shelter as they apply for asylum.
BBC News – Europe

Labour must be “credible” in order to win back power, Gordon Brown says in an apparent coded warning against electing Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.
BBC News – UK

Democratic presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton hits back at one of her Republican rivals, Jeb Bush, over who is responsible for instability in Iraq.
BBC News – US & Canada

An audio emerges purportedly of Abubakar Shekau in which he denies being replaced as leader of Nigerian-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
BBC News – Africa

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A UK financial trader accused of contributing to the 2010 US “flash crash” is freed after his bail conditions were changed.
BBC News – Business

An American aid worker, killed in February while held hostage by Islamic State in Syria, was sexually abused by the group’s top leader, US officials tell ABC news.
BBC News – Middle East

Gunmen kill at least 18 people in a series of overnight attacks on the outskirts of Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The International Monetary Fund calls for Greece to be given “significant debt relief” following the approval of a new bailout deal by Eurozone ministers.
BBC News – Europe

The Queen will join former prisoners of war and veterans at a service on the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan surrendered and World War Two ended.
BBC News – UK

John Kerry, the first US Secretary of State to visit Cuba in 70 years, reopens his country’s embassy in Havana, decades after it closed.
BBC News – US & Canada

A revered monarch in south-west Nigeria, the Ooni of Ife, has been buried after thousands attended his funeral, a mourner tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa