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Organisers of the 2016 Rio Olympics threaten to switch sailing venue from polluted Guanabara Bay to Atlantic Ocean.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Thousands of migrants resume their journey north through Macedonia and into Serbia, after Macedonia reopens its border with Greece.
BBC News – Europe

The death toll from the Shoreham air crash where a vintage jet plummeted into traffic is thought to have risen to 11, police say.
BBC News – UK

Activists with the Black Lives Matter have released a 10 point plan to address abuses by US police forces, responding to critics who say the group lacked direction.
BBC News – US & Canada

Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying the new head of the Nigerian army through Borno state, the military says.
BBC News – Africa

Stock markets around the world have fallen as poor manufacturing figures in China exacerbate global economic fears, with the FTSE 100 seeing its worst week this year.
BBC News – Business

A deputy leader of Islamic State, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, is killed in a US military strike in northern Iraq, the White House says.
BBC News – Middle East

The Venezuelan president declares a state of emergency in a border region near Colombia following an attack by smugglers, in which three soldiers and a civilian were injured.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Three American men are hailed as heroes for overpowering a heavily-armed gunman on a train in northern France.
BBC News – Europe

Labour officials are “rigorously, robustly and fairly” verifying that voting applicants in the party’s leadership contest do support it.
BBC News – UK

Two 13-year-old girls accused of repeatedly stabbing a classmate to please the fictional character Slender Man plead not guilty to attempted murder.
BBC News – US & Canada

Three Ugandan soldiers have been charged over the killing last month of civilians at a wedding in Somalia, the African Union says.
BBC News – Africa

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Shares around the world see further falls, sparked by renewed fears over the health of the global economy.
BBC News – Business

Food shortages, lack of fresh water, and dwindling fuel supplies amid a civil war have pushed Yemen close to famine, the UN warns.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazilian prosecutors file corruption charges against the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, and former President Fernando Collor de Mello.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announces he is resigning and is calling an early election.
BBC News – Europe

The driver of a bin lorry which killed six people in Glasgow tells a fatal accident inquiry how he blacked out “like a light switch”.
BBC News – UK

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Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals he is to be treated for cancerous tumours on the brain, in his first public comments on his illness.
BBC News – US & Canada