The Republican National Convention briefly erupted in chaos when opponents of presumptive US presidential nominee Donald Trump stormed out of the room and others chanted in a failed attempt to force a vote opposing Trump’s candidacy.
The Iraq war veteran who shot dead three policemen in Louisiana’s capital methodically targeted the officers for killing, authorities said, as America confronts racially-charged gun violence against law enforcement for the second time this month.
Turkey purged its police after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of a failed military coup, and said it could reconsider its friendship with the United States only if Washington handed over a cleric that Ankara blames for the putsch.
A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielded an axe and a knife attacking passengers on a train in southern Germany, severely wounding four, before being shot dead by police, the interior minister for the state of Bavaria said.
North Korea fired three ballistic missiles which flew between 500 and 600 kms (300 and 360 miles) into the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of provocative moves by the isolated country.
Two suicide bombers tried to ram vehicles laden with explosives through two Yemeni military checkpoints near government-held port city of Mukalla, killing at least 10 people, as reported by the army and medics.
The United States is expected to raise more than $2 billion this week for war-torn Iraq during a pledging conference in Washington, a senior State Department official said.
In a last-ditch effort to revive a White House plan to protect up to 4 million immigrants from deportation, the Obama administration asked the US Supreme Court to rehear a case on which the eight-member court was split 4-4 last month.
With Rio Olympics less than three weeks away, IOC promised “toughest sanctions available” after reports found Moscow concealed hundreds of positive doping tests in many sports ahead of Sochi winter Games.
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