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The NIESR think tank predicts global economic growth will slow this year to the lowest rate since the financial crisis.
BBC News – Business

Israeli archaeologists say they are trying to decode ancient inscriptions written in Hebrew discovered at a dig in Jerusalem.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican investigators release video surveillance footage of three suspects leaving the flat in which a photojournalist and four women were found murdered.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkey announces plans to escalate attacks on Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria, in an operation co-ordinated with the US.
BBC News – Europe

There are “strong” links between June’s Tunisia beach massacre and the killings at the Bardo Museum in the country’s capital in March, British police say.
BBC News – UK

President Barack Obama continues his push to seal the Iran nuclear deal, framing a congressional vote on lifting sanctions as either a vote for war or for peace.
BBC News – US & Canada

Hundreds of migrants attempting to reach Europe are feared to have drowned after the boat they were on capsized off the coast of Libya.
BBC News – Africa

Once again, the Son of the Congo returned to Africa, spearheading his annual campaign to help those in need and grow the game of basketba
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Former City trader Tom Hayes is found guilty at a London court of rigging global Libor interest rates, and sentenced to 14 years in jail, in the first trial of its kind.
BBC News – Business

US allies in the Gulf back the nuclear deal with Iran, as the US promises them better intelligence-sharing and faster arms transfers.
BBC News – Middle East

Jose Dirceu, a former top aide to Brazil’s ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is arrested in connection with a corruption investigation.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The main Athens stock index, the Athex, falls 16% on Monday, its first day of trading after a five-week closure.
BBC News – Europe

The UK is to extend air strikes by RAF Tornados against the Islamic State group by an extra year, to March 2017, the defence secretary says on a visit to Iraq.
BBC News – UK

US President Barack Obama unveils what he calls “the biggest, most important step we have ever taken” in tackling climate change.
BBC News – US & Canada

Prominent Burundi human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is shot and seriously injured by gunmen on motorbikes, his family says.
BBC News – Africa

The Treasury could begin the process of selling part of the government’s stake in Royal Bank of Scotland from Monday, according to BBC sources.
BBC News – Business

A teenage girl stabbed at a Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday dies from her wounds, doctors say.
BBC News – Middle East

A Mexican photojournalist who said he was being threatened and harassed is found shot dead with four other people in a flat in Mexico City.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Two Turkish soldiers are killed and dozens are wounded in a suicide attack near the border with Iran blamed on Kurdish PKK militants.
BBC News – Europe

Singer and TV star Cilla Black, who enjoyed a 50-year showbusiness career, dies at her home in southern Spain.
BBC News – UK