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ORLANDO – The practice gym inside the Amway Center where the NBA hosts Summer League is a unique, but no frills basketball environment.
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New Vehicle Excise Duty bands are to be introduced, with revenues going towards a new Roads Fund, while fuel duty has been frozen for another year.
BBC News – Business

A court in Iraq has sentenced 24 suspected members of Islamic State (IS) to death for their role in the massacre of hundreds of soldiers in June 2014.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombia’s Farc rebels call a one-month unilateral ceasefire starting on 20 July, but the government says more needs to be done.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promises “credible reform” proposals as his country faces bankruptcy and possibly crashing out of the euro currency.
BBC News – Europe

George Osborne unveils billions in welfare cuts but springs a Budget surprise with a National Living Wage of £9 an hour by 2020.
BBC News – UK

The New York Stock Exchange has suspended trading on all shares for technical reasons, but says there is no cyber attack.
BBC News – US & Canada

Tunisia announces plans to build a wall along its border with Libya to counter the threat from militants, following June’s deadly beach attack.
BBC News – Africa

ORLANDO – Summer Leagu
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ORLANDO – Zipping into
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Millions of energy customers have been “paying too much for their energy bills”, a year-long investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority finds.
BBC News – Business

The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State is “intensifying” its campaign against the group’s base in northern Syria, President Barack Obama says.
BBC News – Middle East

New rules aimed at reducing Brazil’s high number of caesarean births come into force.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to present new proposals at a eurozone emergency summit on his country’s growing debt crisis.
BBC News – Europe

A St Paul’s Cathedral service and a wreath-laying ceremony are marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks that killed 52 people on London’s transport network.
BBC News – UK

Ten people are killed, including a 7-year-old boy, in a series of shootings during a violent US holiday weekend in Chicago.
BBC News – US & Canada

At least 11 people are killed in a gun attack near the Kenyan border with Somalia, blamed on Islamist group al-Shabab.
BBC News – Africa

In its first game of the 2015 NBA Summer League in Orlando, the Thunder summer squad benefitted from a combined 16 defensive r
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Chancellor George Osborne needs to carry out an “ambitious” tax reform agenda in his Budget on Wednesday, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has said.
BBC News – Business

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group carries out an air assault on its Raqqa stronghold in Syria.
BBC News – Middle East