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NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that he and US President Joe Biden agreed on the importance of strengthening the trans-Atlantic alliance in a meeting at the White House.
It comes a week before the NATO leaders summit in Brussels.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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America's Justice Department says it's recovered most of the ransom paid to Russian hackers by the owners of a US petroleum pipeline.
Last month, the Colonial Pipeline was shut down for nearly a week after a ransomware attack, causing petrol shortages up-and-down America's east coast.
Our US Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Proposals from rebel Conservative MPs to reverse cuts to foreign aid have been rejected in the House of Commons.
The House Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said the rebel's amendments to the cuts were outside the scope of the bill they were hoping to change and therefore could not be allowed.
Chris Jones has more in London
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Amazon billionaire, Jeff Bezos, has announced he’s heading into space with his brother on July 20th, some two weeks after stepping down from Amazon as CEO.
The Amazon founder will be blasting off on one of his own rocket ships, the New Shepard, which was developed by Blue Origin- the spaceship company founded by Mr. Bezos in 2000.
Nina-Maria Potts has more:
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The UK's Culture and Sport Secretary, Oliver Dowden, says English cricket's ruling body has gone "over the top" in suspending cricketer Ollie Robinson for racist and sexist remarks he tweeted almost a decade ago.
Mr Dowden tweeted himself that whilst the posts were "offensive and wrong," the England and Wales Cricket Board should "think again" about the decision.
Our correspondent Benji Hyer reports from London.
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has re-imposed a strict lockdown that includes the closure of schools and the suspension of inter-district travel to curb a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. Non-Ugandans travelling from India have also been stopped from entering the country. Leon Solomon reports form Kampala
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India's capital New Delhi is opening up as cases of COVID-19 continue to fall around the nation.
More businesses can reopen and public transport will start once again…
But with some restrictions still in place.
Ishan Garg tells us more.
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Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso has won the US Women's Open.
At age 19, she is the second teenager ever to win the tournament after South Korea's Park Inbee in 2008.
Phoebe Amoroso reports from Tokyo.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is determined to "get to the bottom" of COVID-19's origins, and will hold China accountable. The US is carrying out its own investigation into the source of the pandemic, after saying a report from the World Health Organisation left many questions unanswered
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.