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Lewis Hamilton refused entry to Wimbledon’s Royal Box because he was ‘not smart enough’ –
Lewis Hamilton was barred from entering the Royal Box during the Wimbledon final on Sunday because he was not wearing a jacket and tie. Despite receiving an invitation to watch the men’s singles final from the Royal Box, the Formula One champion missed the match owing to an “unfortunate misunderstanding regarding the dress code at Wimbledon”, according to his spokesman. Earlier in the day Hamilton posted a picture on Instagram showing his Royal Box invitation package, saying he was “honoured” to have received it. He later posted another picture of himself on Instagram dressed in a colourful shirt and trousers, with the caption “Wimbledon”. [Daily Telegraph]
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FIFA Turns Down Request for Blatter to Attend U.S. Senate Panel Hearing –
A U.S. Senate panel invited FIFA President Sepp Blatter to answer questions at a hearing this Wednesday about the corruption scandal that has badly tarnished soccer’s global governing body but FIFA declined on his behalf, a congressional official said. FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment and Blatter’s legal representative in the U.S. declined to comment. Blatter said last week in an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that he “won’t take any travel risks until everything has been cleared up”. [NY Times]
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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Burundi‘s army kills 31 suspected rebels and captures 170 others in fighting in the country’s north. (ABC News via AP)
• Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen (2015-present)
  • An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition kills 25 civilians and wounds 50 in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Last week a ceasefire agreement was reached. (STL Today) (CTV News via AP)

Business and economy

• Greek government-debt crisis, timeline
  • Eurozone leaders agree on a bailout deal for Greece providing the Hellenic Parliament passes reforms into law by July 15. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• All the missing 42 people have been found following the collapse of a Russian Army barracks in the Omsk Oblast of southwestern Siberia with 23 deaths. (TASS)

International relations

• Georgia accuses Russia of violating its sovereignty by placing border markers on the edge of the South Ossetia region, leaving part of an international oil pipeline in territory under Russian control. The area was the site of the Russo-Georgian war in 2008. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• The Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta is charged in an on-going corruption scandal. (BBC)
• Former United Kingdom Independence Party Member of the European Parliament Ashley Mote is jailed for 5 years for fraudulently claiming almost £500k in European Parliament expenses. (BBC)
• Rapper Curtis James Jackson III, better known by his stage name 50 Cent, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (MarketWatch)
• President Barack Obama commutes the sentences of 46 American prison inmates serving long sentences for drug related offences. (CNN)
• Son of Boston police captain is charged with a foiled plot to bomb a university, inspired by Boston Marathon bombing, on alleged behalf of ISIS. He is scheduled Tuesday for a bail hearing at a federal court in Springfield. (AP)
• Alaa Bader Abdullah, 31, is executed in the United Arab Emirates for the murder of Ibolya Ryan, a Romanian-American teacher. (Reuters)
• The male defendant is found not guilty of death threats on US Majority Speaker of the House, John Boehner, by reason of insanity. He is still in jail and due for another trial on August 21 to determine his ability to adjust to society. (USA Today)

Politics and elections

• Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem was re-elected president of the Eurogroup for a second term. (Reuters)
• United States presidential election, 2016
  • Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin, announces that he will be seeking the Republican Party nomination. (NBC News)

Sport

• Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics
  • The male New Zealand national under-23 football team are disqualified from the qualifying tournament by the Oceania Football Confederationfor fielding allegedly ineligible player Deklan Wynne.(BBC)

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