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Amid drama in Greece, the next few days present a major challenge to the integrity of the 16-year-old euro zone currency bloc.

The Islamic State group has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria.

In a speech likely to be considered one of the most memorable of his presidency, Obama paid an emotional tribute to the nine people shot to death at the church and pleaded for Americans to use the tragedy as a way to bridge racial divide.

French PM Manuel Valls said that France was at risk of other such terrorist attacks and added that it was difficult for a society to live in constant threat.

The long awaited dissolution of the 225-member house will pave the way for a fresh parliamentary election mid August, sources said.

US President Barack Obama has assured his French counterpart Francois Hollande that his administration was not spying on him.

Russia and Saudi Arabia have entered into a civil nuclear co-operation agreement, It is the first such accord between the two countries.

Greece has made concessions which the euro zone officials and its creditors believe can act as a basis for finding a workable solution.

"Dear friends, I have decided to step down and therefore our party now has to find another leader," she said, her voice shaking on Thursday.

US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard commemorates the Inaugural International yoga day by introducong a congressional resolution

Law enforcement officials arrested alleged gunman Dylann Roof after a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina, about 220 miles (350 km) north of Charleston, said police chief Gregory Mullen.

Warren Buffett with $70.1 billion took the second slot on the list. Spain's Amancio Ortega ($65 billion) came in next.

The public event on Sunday will be held at Bernie-Spain Garden, on the South Bank of the Thames.

The discovery of the last of the missing lions and tigers on Tuesday as the waters receded eased fears in the capital of Georgia, an ex-Soviet republic, that some of the big cats were still wandering the hills of the city.

At least 12 children among 34 people died and 190 were wounded as Aleppo came under heavy rocket fire at the hands of the Syrian rebels in one of the bloodiest days of the civil war.

During his visit to Bangladesh in June, PM Modi had admitted that India played a part in the break-up of Pakistan in 1971 Liberation war.