French President Francois Hollande
These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:
- Confidence in the ability of the French government to combat terrorism plummets sharply following the recent truck-ramming that killed 84 people in the city of Nice.
- Turkey dismisses nearly eight-thousand police officers on suspicion of having links to Friday’s failed coup. Some six-thousand members of the judiciary and military are also detained.
- EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warns that Turkey will be barred from joining the European Union if it re-instates the death penalty following last week's coup.
- US President Barack Obama calls on all Americans to avoid words or actions that would deepen what he describes divisions in the country following several deadly police shooting of African-Americans.
- An independent report, commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, finds evidence of state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes at the Sochi Olympics.
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