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Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85
BBC News
Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said.
Stolen plane closes Seattle-Tacoma airport before crashing
BBC News
An airline employee who stole an empty passenger plane from Seattle airport has crashed on a nearby island.
France floods: 1,600 evacuated, German missing at campsite
BBC New
Heavy floods have forced the evacuation of 1,600 people - most of them campers - in southern France, officials say.
Gaza air strikes ‘kill woman and child’ after rockets hit Israel
BBC News
Three Palestinians are reported to have been killed in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after militants there fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel.
New South Wales drought now affects entire state
BBC News
Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), is now entirely in drought, officials have confirmed.
Iran sanctions: Trump warns trading partners
BBC News
US President Donald Trump has issued a strong warning to anyone trading with Iran, following his re-imposition of sanctions on the country.
Lombok quake: Thousands evacuated after dozens die on Indonesia island
BBC News
Some 10,000 people have been evacuated on the Indonesian island of Lombok after a powerful 6.9 magnitude quake on Sunday (August 5, 2018) left more than 90 people dead.
Maduro vows 'maximum punishment' after assassination attempt
BBC News
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says the perpetrators of, what he says was an assassination attempt against him will face "maximum punishment."
Carney: No-deal Brexit risk 'uncomfortably high'
BBC News
The possibility of a no-deal Brexit is "uncomfortably high" and "highly undesirable", Bank of England governor Mark Carney has told the BBC.
'It was a massacre': Dozens killed in Saudi air raids on Hodeidah
Al Jazeera
At least 55 people, including women and children, have been killed in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in air raids carried out by a Saudi and UAE alliance battling Houthi rebels, the rebel-run health ministry said.