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US State Department spokesman Ned Price announces during his press briefing that the United States will use a military base in Virginia to temporarily house Afghan interpreters fleeing their home country, due to the withdrawal of US forces after 20 years of war. SOUNDBITE
People in The Hague try to stay cool as a heatwave hits the Netherlands. Temperatures between 32 and 35 degrees Celsius are expected in the country as other parts of Europe are also struggling with high temperatures. IMAGES
Britain's Labour finance minister Rachel Reeves says that the country's public finances face an additional hole of £22 billion ($28 billion) inherited from the previous Conservative government. "We have inherited a projected overspend of £22 billion of spending this year that was covered up by the party opposite," says Reeves, appointed after the centre-left Labour party's landslide election victory on July 4. SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says that he expects the United States to remain a key ally in NATO "regardless of the outcome" of the presidential election ahead of a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. "I expect that regardless of the outcome of the US elections, the US will remain a strong NATO ally because that is in the security interest of the United States. A strong NATO is good for Europe, but also good for the United States," Stoltenberg says in an interview filmed by NATO for AFP. SOUNDBITE
"Luiggi's place is to be free," chants a demonstrator outside the Paris Tribunal at Batignolles in Paris. A few dozen people gather to support Luiggi, a student who was arrested on Tuesday evening after pro-Palestinian activists were evacuated from the Sorbonne university in Paris. IMAGES
The United States calls on Pakistan to show restraint and for Afghanistan's Taliban to control extremists, after Islamabad carried out deadly strikes in border areas. SOUNDBITE
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