BBC News with Jonathan Izard.
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for international investigators to be given safe and unrestricted access to the site where the downed Malaysian airliner crashed in east Ukraine. Russia, which could have vetoed the resolution because of misgivings about its wording, did eventually vote in favor avoiding an international outcry. The US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said Russia could have done more at an earlier stage to secure the crash site.
As Russia generally believe that Ukraine was involved in the shoot-down of Flight 17, surely President Putin would have told the separatists, many of whose leaders are from Russia, to guard the evidence at all cost, to maintain a forensically pure, hermetically sealed crime scene. We welcome Russia's support for today's resolution, but no resolution would have been necessary have Russia used its leverage with the separatists on Thursday, getting in to lay down their arms and leave the site to international experts.
The train carrying most of the 298 victims is heading to the city of Kharkiv, where the remains will be handed over to Dutch authorities. The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the black boxes from the crashed plane will be handed over to Malaysian authorities in Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine continue to dispute on what had led to the downing of the Malaysian plane. In response to Ukrainian accusations that it was shot down with an anti-aircraft missile supplied by Russia, Moscow has denied that it's armed pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine with surface-to-air missiles or any other weapons. Danny Abberheart reports.
At a briefing in Moscow, Russian Defence Ministry officials showed radar images, saying Russia's air traffic control had detected a Ukrainian warplane flying within three to five kilometers of the Malaysian airliner before it crashed. Without labeling a direct accusation, a Russian official says such fighter planes were usually armed with air-to-air missiles that could bring down another aircraft at that range. The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko calls such allegations irresponsible and false.
Israeli forces have shelled a hospital in Gaza City, killing five people and wounding at least 70 others including many medical staff. Yolande Knell reports from Gaza.
Doctors say that several Israeli tank shells hit al-Alqsa hospital in the town of Deir el-Balah, the reception area, intensive care units and operating centers were hit. Appeals have been made to Red Cross to help evacuate patients from the building. Israel had told residents of neighboring areas to head to Deir al-Balah for their won safety as its ground offensive continues to target neighborhoods to the east of Gaza City for a second day. Fighting has shown no sign of abating as diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants continue.
Diplomatic efforts to broker a truce in Gaza have intensified with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon meeting the American Secretary of Stage John Kerry in Cairo. Mr. Ban has again called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
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The global Islamic group, the Organization of Islamic Conference has condemned the treatment of Christians by ISIS in the Iraqi city of Mosul as an intolerable crime. The head of the OIC Iyad Madani said the forced displacement of Christians in the city showed that the Jihadist group had nothing to do with Islam and its principles of tolerance and coexistence.
British police have begun a criminal investigation into alleged fraud in the City of London's foreign exchange market. Traders are alleged to have colluded with manipulation, to manipulate exchange rates in a business that involves trades worth trillions of dollars everyday. BBC's financial correspondent Simon Gompers reports.
The City of London, another major financial center, has been awashed with allegations about traders colluding to manipulate exchange rates, using Internet chat rooms to share information. The US Department of Justice has already launched a criminal investigation. In the UK, the Serious Fraud Office has issued a brief statement confirming that it too is investigating fraud in the foreign exchange market. Though there are no precise details about the allegations or the individuals, the repercussions of any wrong doing could be very significant particularly in London which is the world's foreign exchange hub.
The governor of Texas Rick Perry had said he would deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops on the state's border with Mexico. Mr. Perry said the troops were needed to fight an increase in the numbers of unaccompanied children mostly from Central America try to cross the border. Between October and the end of June, the numbers of unaccompanied children caught at the border more than doubled to fifty-seven thousand.
The government of Ivory Coast has launched a system to improve transparency in the diamond trade following the lifting of a United Nations embargo in April. Efforts will also be made to improve conditions and pay for diamond minors, who often lose out to middlemen. The Ivorian Minister of Mine said now it was the time for development diamonds, not blood diamond, the term used to describe the way demand helped to fund conflict.