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Swedish carmaker Volvo is recalling 59,000 cars across 40 markets over a fault that can briefly shut down the engine.
BBC News – Business

Two Serbian captives are confirmed to have died in Friday’s US air strikes against the Islamic State group in western Libya, Serbia says.
BBC News – Middle East

Nicaraguan Roman Catholic priest Fernando Cardinal, punished by the Vatican for his work in the revolutionary government, dies aged 82.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Nazi Germany’s Treblinka death camp in Poland, dies in Israel at the age of 93.
BBC News – Europe

The UK will vote on whether to remain in the EU on Thursday 23 June, Prime Minister David Cameron says, as six ministers back the leave campaign.
BBC News – UK

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins South Carolina, US media project, hours after Hillary Clinton secured victory in Nevada in the Democratic presidential race.
BBC News – US & Canada

Uganda’s electoral commission announces that Yoweri Museveni has won a fifth term as president amid allegations of intimidation and vote rigging.
BBC News – Africa

A barrage of three-pointers over the final two-and-a-half minutes of play did the Thunder in on Friday night, as it fell 101-98 to the In
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Tony Phillips, a versatile and productive player over 18 Major League seasons, including nine with the A’s and five with the Tigers, died on Wednesday in Arizona at age 56.
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The Chancellor faces a challenge in meeting borrowing forecasts despite a bumper public finance surplus in January, experts say.
BBC News – Business

The US carries out air strikes on so-called Islamic State in Libya, targeting a top militant linked to an attack on Tunisia that killed 30 Britons.
BBC News – Middle East

Barack Obama confirms he will visit Cuba in March as part of a broader trip to Latin America, only the second sitting US president to travel to the capital Havana.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Austria introduces a cap on migrants and refugees it allows in, with the EU migration commissioner describing it as “incompatible” with EU law.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron’s talks at the Brussels summit are hit by delays as EU leaders continue to resist key reforms.
BBC News – UK

American novelist Harper Lee, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill A Mockingbird, dies aged 89.
BBC News – US & Canada

Police in Uganda say they have arrested the main opposition presidential candidate to prevent him from announcing his own election results.
BBC News – Africa

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Members of the Federal Reserve considered changing plans to raise interest rates throughout 2016 amid worries about heightened economic risks, minutes show.
BBC News – Business

Aid convoys reach several besieged Syrian towns, the UN says, part of an agreement world powers hope will lead to a partial cease in hostilities.
BBC News – Middle East