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New York police shot –
A gunman has shot dead two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York before killing himself. Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot by a Ismaaiyl Brinsley who apparently made online statements suggesting that he planned to kill police officers.

Sony hack: Is Idris Elba the next James Bond? –
The latest leaked memo from Sony Entertainment has revealed that Idris Elba, the British-born star of cult TV series The Wire and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, is a Sony executive’s favourite to replace Daniel Craig as 007. According to the Daily Beast, Amy Pascal, the co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in an email that Elba, 42, “should be the next Bond”. [Daily Telegraph]

Ticking the boxes –
Real Madrid have beaten San Lorenzo 2-0 to win the Club World Cup which means that Cristiano Ronaldo has now won the same eight trophies with two different teams Real and Manchester United. He became the first player to achieve the feat and his manager Carlo Ancelotti equalled the record for the most European and international club competitions won by a manager.
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Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in North-West Pakistan
  • The Pakistan Armed Forces attacks two Pakistani Taliban positions near Peshawar, killing 5 militants. (BBC)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel launches an airstrike against an alleged Hamas base near Khan Yunis in retaliation for a rocket attack.(Euronews)(The Jerusalem Post)
• A bomb detonates in Bani Jamra, Bahrain, injuring 3 police officers. (AP via Wall Street Journal)
• Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
  • The North Korean government denies the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations‘s (FBI) accusation of involvement in hacking Sony’s computers, asking the U.S. for a joint investigation and threatening “serious consequences” if theUnited States refuses the offer of cooperation. (Bloomberg)
  • The United States rejects the offer from North Korea and then seeks help from China instead. (LA Times)
  • Hackers send the FBI an email linking to a YouTube video of “You are an idiot!” (The Daily Beast)(ITV)

Law and crime

• Turkey issues an arrest warrant for Fethullah Gülen, who currently lives in self-imposed exile in the United States. (New York Times)
• Cairns child killings
  • Queensland police arrest an Australian mother for murder in the stabbing deaths of eight children. (FOX News)
• 2014 NYPD officer killings
  • After shooting and wounding his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore, Ismaaiyl Brinsley shoots and kills two policemen execution style in Brooklyn, New York, supposedly in revenge for the deaths of two black men in the U.S. reportedly caused by police officers during the summer of 2014, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. The gunman is later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the subway. (CNN)(AP via CBS)
• Hundreds of people from the group Black Lives Matter Minneapolis protest at the Mall of America, leading to its partial shutdown and 25 arrests. (USA Today)

Science and technology

• In preparation for a government-proposed transportation tunnel, anthropologists discover 6,000-year-old charcoal at a site near Stonehenge suggesting an encampment existed much earlier than previously theorized. (Huffington Post)(The Telegraph)(University of Buckingham)

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