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Up to 25,000 civilians are believed trapped in Raqqa as fighting rages with so-called Islamic State.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombian TV channels Caracol and RCN are the latest foreign media to be pulled from the airwaves.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The French president says “social dumping” of cheap migrant workers puts the whole EU at risk.
BBC News – Europe

Convoys of partially driverless lorries will be seen on British roads by the end of 2018.
BBC News – UK

Mark Asay, 53, is the first white man to be executed in Florida for killing a black victim.
BBC News – US & Canada

The governing MPLA party receives nearly two-thirds of the vote, provisional results suggest.
BBC News – Africa

It was first time former Indiana University head coach Tom Crean had seen them – the three huge, bold words stamped above Loud City insid
Oklahoma City Thunder

A red-hot Manny Machado was the hero Wednesday, hitting a walk-off home run in the 12th inning to push the O’s past the A’s, 8-7, in Baltimore’s series victory at Camden Yards.
OAK Homepage News

The head of the European Central Bank says quantitative easing has made the world more resilient.
BBC News – Business

Rescuers are pulling bodies from the rubble of the two-storey building on the outskirts of Sanaa.
BBC News – Middle East

Flowers are blooming in the Atacama desert in northern Chile after unusual rainfall in the region.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Police match Kim Wall’s DNA, 13 days after she disappeared on a submarine with a Danish inventor.
BBC News – Europe

The feud between the Birmingham rivals has plagued the streets with murders, shootings and stabbings.
BBC News – UK

The president takes aim at opponents at an Arizona rally but misquotes his Charlottesville response.
BBC News – US & Canada

Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the world’s second-longest serving president, is stepping down.
BBC News – Africa

Red-hot Ryon Healy homered twice to lead a solid Oakland offensive attack in Tuesday’s 6-4, series-evening win over the Orioles.
OAK Homepage News

The A’s Boog Powell will soon meet the man responsible for the name he took on at age 5, with plans in place for the young outfielder to spend time with Orioles legend Boog Powell on Tuesday.
OAK Homepage News

The payout – to a woman who developed ovarian cancer – is the largest award so far against the firm.
BBC News – Business

The northern city was once a strategic IS supply route between Mosul and the Syrian border.
BBC News – Middle East

News of the judges’ ruling by 6-4 led to celebrations among left-of centre parties in Santiago.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean