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Clashes between African migrants in the French port city of Calais have left more than 50 people injured.
A fight which started on Monday evening at a food distribution centre was initially broken up by police but later continued into the night.
Hundreds of migrants live in informal camps in the Calais port, trying to cross into Britain illegally.French police have spent months trying to break up the camps, but the migrants say they have nowhere else to go.
A bill to strengthen the US border with Mexico amid a surge in arrivals from Central America has been passed by the House of Representatives.
The $694m (£412m) bill would deploy National Guard troops at the southern border and speed up deportations.
President Barack Obama, who asked for $3.7bn, described the Republican package as “extreme” and “unworkable”.
The bill will not go before the Senate, which was unable to agree a bill itself and is in recess until September.
That leaves what many have described as a national crisis unaddressed over the summer months.
Chinese authorities are investigating a Canadian couple suspected of stealing state secrets about national defence and the military, state media say.
Xinhua news agency named the suspects as Kevin and Julia Garratt. The couple run a coffee shop in Dandong just across the border from North Korea.
Xinhua said Dandong’s State Security Bureau was investigating the case. But the couple’s son Simeon told the BBC the charges were “absurd” and made “absolutely no sense”.
The couple taught in southern China for several years and then moved to Dandong, where they opened Peter’s Coffee House.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has ordered the air force to provide support to Kurdish forces fighting Sunni militants in the north.
It comes after the Islamic State (formerly known as Isis) seized two towns and two nearby oilfields from Kurdish troops over the weekend.
Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, say they are planning a counter-attack.
Militants seized large swathes of northern Iraq from government control in June.
Thousands of people are fleeing Lebanon’s eastern border town of Arsal, as the Lebanese army and rebels from Syria clash for a third day.
The fighting began on Saturday, when rebels raided the town after Lebanese forces detained an alleged member of the Syrian Islamist militant group al-Nusra Front.
At least 13 Lebanese soldiers have been killed since Saturday.
The area is known for regular tension between the army and Syrian militias.
Residents said they made use of a relative lull to pack up and leave.