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Fear of war in Lebanon grows; Britain’s £22bn “black hole”, and more

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, cut short his trip to America.

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that Hizbullah would “pay a heavy price” after 11 people, all of them young, were killed when a rocket struck a football pitch in a town in the Golan Heights.

Barack Obama endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee

America’s economic growth accelerated in the second quarter of the year.

In a nearly hour-long speech to America’s Congress, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, forcefully defended his country’s war in Gaza.

At her first presidential campaign rally Kamala Harris spoke to an energetic crowd in Wisconsin.

Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign reported that she raised $81m in her first 24 hours as a candidate.

President Joe Biden announced that he would abandon his bid to be re-elected in November, saying “it is in the best interest of my party and my country for me to stand down”.

Joe Biden, America’s president, vowed to return to the campaign trail next week after self-isolating with covid.

Joe Biden, America’s president, vowed to return to the campaign trail next week after self-isolating with covid

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Israel’s retaliatory strike on Beirut; turmoil in Venezuela, and more

Protests broke out across Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro, the country’s autocratic ruler, claimed an implausible presidential-election victory. Also, Israeli protesters stormed an army base near Beersheba, a city in the south of the country, in support of soldiers who are accused of severely abusing a Palestinian prisoner.

America and Germany called on their citizens to leave Lebanon amid fears that Israel might go to war with Hizbullah, an Iran-backed Shia militia based in the country.

Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, was declared the winner of the country’s presidential election. Also, Israel’s security cabinet authorized the government to decide on the “manner and timing” of its response to a rocket strike that killed 12 young people on a football pitch in the Golan Heights on Saturday.

Israel strikes Lebanon; Harris’s fundraising haul, and more

A wildfire in northern California, allegedly caused by an arson attack on Wednesday, ripped through more than 350,000 acres.

At least ten people, aged between ten and 20, were killed when a rocket struck a football field in a town in the Golan Heights.

Hours before the Paris Olympics ceremony, France’s high-speed rail network was hit by a series of apparent arson attacks.

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