A pro-Erdogan supporter holds a Turkish flag during a protest at the Sarchane park in Istanbul on July 19, 2016. ©AFP
These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:
- Turkey sacks over 26,000 civil servants in the wake of the July 15th failed coup.
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Bahrain's dissolution of its main opposition group risks escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom.
- The UN children’s agency warns that nearly fifty thousand Nigerian children will die of malnutrition, in areas once held by Boko Haram terrorists if they don't get treatment.
- The International Monetary Fund has cut its global growth forecast once again over the uncertainty created by Brexit.
- Seven soldiers have been killed and over a dozen others wounded in some of the bloodiest clashes in east Ukraine in two months.
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