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BBC:Tunisia attack on Sousse beach 'kills 39'
Tunisia attack on Sousse beach 'kills 39'
At least 39 people, mostly foreigners, have been killed and 36 injured in an attack on a beach in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to the health ministry.
Video footage showed the body of a suspected gunman lying in a street.
Tunisians, Britons, Germans and Belgians and at least one Irish citizen are among the dead.
In March militants killed 22 people, mainly foreign tourists, in an attack on a museum in the capital Tunis.
BBC:India floods: Monsoon rains cause havoc in Gujarat
India floods: Monsoon rains cause havoc in Gujarat
Authorities in India's Gujarat state say incessant monsoon rains have caused widespread damage to public and private properties.
Air force helicopters have been dropping food in affected areas after more than 70 people were reported to have died in flood-related incidents.
More than 10,000 people have been moved to higher ground, including 1,000 who were airlifted to safety.
India regularly witnesses severe floods during the monsoon season.
BBC:The perils of being an Indian journalist
The perils of being an Indian journalist
A small group of men in a dingy room busily tap on their keyboards on a hot afternoon in Shahjahanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.
The men, all journalists, share space with bulky cameras, tapes and tripods. It is suffocating, but no-one complains.
"This room is our shared office. We share resources and stories too," one man, who works as a television reporter says with a wry smile.
Shahjahanpur may be a small town by Indian standards, (population 400,000 as of 2011) but it boasts of no fewer than 150 journalists. Poor communications and woefully inadequate infrastructure have not deterred them from their chosen profession.
BBC:China audit reveals $3bn of lottery funds were misused
China audit reveals $3bn of lottery funds were misused
Investigators have found that a quarter of all money raised through China's state-run lottery programme in a two-year period was misused.
Nearly $3bn (£1.9bn) was embezzled or spent on cars, travel and new offices.
The corruption was discovered after the first-ever widespread audit of the lottery. Some of the embezzled money has now been recovered.
Gambling is illegal in China, apart from a few exceptions, including the lottery.
BBC:Russia's former PM Yevgeny Primakov dies aged 85
Russia's former PM Yevgeny Primakov dies aged 85
Yevgeny Primakov, a former Russian prime minister, foreign minister and spy chief, has died at the age of 85.
Mr Primakov died in Moscow after a prolonged illness, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin had been informed of the former prime minister's death and was "deeply saddened".
Mr Primakov was head of the Russian government for just eight months between September 1998 and May 1999.
BBC:Greece debt crisis: Tsipras announces bailout referendum
Greece debt crisis: Tsipras announces bailout referendum
Greece will hold a referendum on 5 July on a controversial bailout deal with foreign creditors, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced.
In a televised address, he described the plan as "humiliation" and condemned "unbearable" austerity measures demanded by creditors.
The Greek government earlier rejected the proposals, aimed at avoiding the country defaulting on its debt.
Greece has to make a €1.5bn ($1.7bn; £1.06bn) IMF debt repayment on 30 June.
Reuters:Brazil probe pits investigators against long-protected elite
Brazil probe pits investigators against long-protected elite
In a nation where the elite have enjoyed relative impunity, a new generation of police and prosecutors in Brazil are bent on using the country's largest-ever corruption investigation to send the message that no one is above the law.
They have displayed in a local museum works of art seized in arrests in connection with alleged bribery at state-run oil firm Petrobras. They have also paraded lobbyists and chief executives in handcuffs before TV cameras.
And they gave the moniker Operation 'Erga Omnes,' Latin for 'For everyone' to a raid that jailed one of the country's most powerful corporate scions, CEO Marcelo Odebrecht.
Earlier this week they publicized a hand-written note Odebrecht wrote from jail.
Reuters:Iraqi military pilot found dead at F-16 crash site in Arizona
Iraqi military pilot found dead at F-16 crash site in Arizona
The body of an Iraqi general killed when his military fighter jet crashed into the Arizona desert during a night training mission has been found near the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Search crews recovered the body of Brigadier General Rasid Mohammed Sadiq Hasan from the crash site about five miles (eight km) east of Douglas Municipal Airport, U.S. and Iraqi government officials said.
Hasan was alone in the Iraqi military-owned F-16 Fighting Falcon when it went down at about 8 p.m. on Wednesday, sparking a large grass fire.
The blaze was extinguished within hours, and there were no reports of injuries on the ground from the crash, authorities said.
Reuters:Japan, U.S. can reach agreement for July pan-Pacific trade deal: Japan official
Japan, U.S. can reach agreement for July pan-Pacific trade deal: Japan official
Japan and the United States are likely to resolve outstanding bilateral issues so that a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal can be struck at a multilateral ministerial meeting expected in July, a senior Japanese official said on Friday.
A deal between the United States and Japan, the world's largest and third-largest economies, is vital to clinching the multilateral TPP pact, which would cover 40 percent of the world economy. The deal is a key part of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategic rebalance to Asia in the face of a rising China.
The politically touchy matters of access to Japan's market for farm products including rice and the U.S. market for auto parts are among remaining bilateral issues, the official said told Reuters.
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"It is not anticipated that these remaining issues will be stumbling blocks for a U.S.-Japan agreement," the official said.
Reuters:U.S. compares China's South China Sea moves to Russia's in Ukraine
U.S. compares China's South China Sea moves to Russia's in Ukraine
The U.S. State Department's number two diplomat on Friday compared China's behavior in pursuit of territory in the South China Sea to that of Russia in eastern Ukraine.
Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China's large scale reclamation projects in the South China Sea, "a threat to peace and stability."
He said the United States took no position on the merits of competing claims in the disputed sea, but had a strong interest in how those were pursued, and in preserving freedom of navigation.
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"The way forward is for China, and all claimants, to freeze their reclamation activities and resolve their difference in accordance the rule of law," he said.
Reuters:U.N. chief urges Burundi to seriously consider postponing votes
U.N. chief urges Burundi to seriously consider postponing votes
The U.N. secretary-general urged Burundian authorities on Friday to seriously consider postponing elections because he was "deeply concerned over the prevailing political and security environment".
Ban Ki-moon's statement echoes concerns of Western and African nations who have also sought a delay after unrest sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term.
Burundi's parliamentary election is scheduled for Monday and the presidential poll will be held on July 15. Both have already been pushed back by weeks. Opposition parties say they are boycotting the votes.
Reuters:U.S. Air Force mulls plans to replace Russian rocket engines
U.S. Air Force mulls plans to replace Russian rocket engines
A U.S. Air Force competition to develop a rocket propulsion system to end dependence on Russian rocket engines drew broad response from companies, the Air Force said on Friday.
“There is interest,” Lt. General Samuel Greaves, who heads the Air Force’s Space and Missiles Systems Center, said during a webcast hearing of the House Strategic Forces Subcommittee.
Russia’s RD-180 engines power the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rockets that fly most of the military’s satellites. The Air Force hopes for at least two public-private partnerships to end reliance on those engines.
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ULA is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing.
Fin. Exp.:Google starts testing of prototype self-driving cars
Google starts testing of prototype self-driving cars
Google has announced that it is begun testing the latest prototypes of its self-driving car, which are designed to be autonomous without any sort of controls.
According to the Techcrunch.com, during this testing phase, they have safety drivers in the driver seat during this stage of the test, with removable steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals to ensure they can take control if necessary.
In self-driving mode, they top out at 25 mph, and are using the same system software that has powered the previously Lexus-made test vehicles with minimal incidents.