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Federal prosecutors in Brazil open a formal inquiry into alleged influence-peddling by the former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greek banks, shut nearly three weeks ago, are to reopen on Monday after the European Central Bank raised the level of emergency funding available.
BBC News – Europe

Education in prisons must be overhauled in order to tackle a “persistent failure to reduce re-offending”, the justice secretary is to say.
BBC News – UK

A gunman kills four US Marines at a US Navy building in Tennessee before being shot dead in what is being investigated as an “act of domestic terrorism”.
BBC News – US & Canada

Militants in Sinai say they have hit an Egyptian navy ship with a missile, though the military gives a different account.
BBC News – Africa

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UK unemployment rose for the first time in more than two years in the March-to-May period, according to the latest official figures.
BBC News – Business

The UN Security Council will vote next week on a resolution endorsing the nuclear deal with Iran, the Iranian foreign minister says.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican authorities release CCTV footage showing the moments before drug lord Joaquin Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison via a tunnel.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greek MPs angrily debate tough economic measures they must approve by the end of the day to receive a possible €86bn eurozone bailout.
BBC News – Europe

Ministers unveil the biggest clamp down on strike action in 30 years as unions say it will make legal industrial action nearly impossible.
BBC News – UK

Search teams in Kentucky are looking for six missing people after heavy floods that have already claimed two lives.
BBC News – US & Canada

South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu will stay a second night in hospital after his admission to hospital on Tuesday for an infection, his family says.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 14, 2015 – The Oklahoma City Thunder acquired a trade exception and a protected 2018 second round dr
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Earlier this summer, after some well-deserved rest following a grueling NBA season, Enes Kanter made the lengthy trek back from his nativ
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David Cameron is to press ahead with plans to force large firms to publish data on the gender pay gap among staff, saying he wants to eliminate the problem “within a generation”.
BBC News – Business

A deal on limiting Iran’s nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions has been reached at talks in Vienna, diplomats say.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexico offers a $ 3.8m reward for the capture of escaped drug lord Joaquin Guzman, as the director of the prison where he was being held is sacked.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greece’s prime minister faces a battle to convince his colleagues and coalition partners to support the terms of a third eurozone bailout.
BBC News – Europe

Chancellor George Osborne has moved to block any attempt to use British taxpayers’ money as part of the Greek bailout, Treasury sources say.
BBC News – UK