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New York City has agreed to pay $ 5.9m (£3.8m) to the family of Eric Garner who died in July 2014 after a violent arrest.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari replaces the army, navy and air force chiefs, following an upsurge in Boko Haram attacks.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 12, 2015 – The Oklahoma City Thunder has exercised its right of first refusal and matched the offer
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Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen repeats her view that the central bank is likely to start raising interest rates this year.
BBC News – Business

Talks to strike a provisional agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme are in the “final phase”, the French foreign minister believes.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison through long tunnel, officials say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

An option enabling Greece to leave the eurozone temporarily if a bailout is not agreed is among a raft of measures being considered by Eurogroup leaders.
BBC News – Europe

An urgent review of all police call handling in Scotland is to be undertaken following the death of two people who lay in a crashed car for three days.
BBC News – UK

A US civil rights group ends its economic boycott of South Carolina after the Confederate flag was removed from the grounds of the state house.
BBC News – US & Canada

At least five people in the Somali capital Mogadishu have been killed in a militant attack on two hotels as the Ramadan fast was ending for the day.
BBC News – Africa

ORLANDO – A box out by Quinn Cook, the shortest player on the floor, freed up the loose defensive rebound for a Thunder
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OKLAHOMA CITY, July 10, 2015 – Thunder Executive Vice President and General Manager Sam Presti announce
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Wall Street closes up, buoyed by fresh hopes that Greece will agree a new bailout deal with its creditors.
BBC News – Business

A UN-brokered humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen is broken shortly after it came into force, as air strikes are reported in the capital Sanaa.
BBC News – Middle East

A crucifix sculpted in the shape of a hammer and sickle given to the Pope upsets some Catholics, but the Vatican downplays the controversy.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Eurozone finance ministers are set to give their view on whether Greece should qualify for a third bailout which would prevent it crashing out of the euro.
BBC News – Europe

Charities are to be forced to draft written agreements showing how vulnerable people will be protected from aggressive fundraising.
BBC News – UK

The man accused of killing nine black churchgoers in South Carolina last month was able to buy a gun due to a background check failure, the FBI says.
BBC News – US & Canada

A large explosion hits the Italian consulate in the centre of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
BBC News – Africa

ORLANDO – The Thunder
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