1. Turkey rounds up plot suspects

    Turkish authorities have rounded up* nearly 6,000 suspected military plotters* and ordered thousands of judges detained after thwarting* a coup by rebels using tanks and attack helicopters to try to topple* President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday.

    For several hours overnight on Friday, violence shook Turkey’s two main cities: Istanbul and Ankara.

    At least 265 people were killed. An official said 161 of them were mostly civilians and police officers, while the remaining 104 were coup* supporters.

    2. France beefs up security

    France’s interior minister announced a tightening of security measures nationwide on Saturday, including the call-up of 12,000 police reserves*, “because of the terrorist threat” in the wake of the deadly Bastille Day melee* in Nice.

    Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the reserves would beef up the 120,000-strong force of police and soldiers already deployed around the country.

    In addition, police arrested three more people on Saturday linked to the 31-year-old Tunisian-born delivery man, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who is accused of plowing* his truck into crowds for more than 1.6 kilometers along a Nice promenade*, killing 84 people and injuring over 200.

    3. Trump introduces Pence as running mate

    At a news conference to introduce his newly announced running mate to his supporters, Donald Trump took the stage alone on Saturday morning and then spent 28 minutes talking about all sorts of things with only brief mentions of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

    Trump described Pence as his “partner” and his “first choice,” despite media reports that the presumptive* Republican nominee was uneasy with the selection.

    Trump noted that the two of them are “law and order candidates” who can defeat a “weak” Hillary Clinton.

    4. Senior commander al-Shishani killed

    A top Islamic State group commander, Omar al-Shishani, had been killed in Iraq, the jihadist-linked Amaq agency said on July 13.

    The Pentagon announced in March that Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was believed to have died of injuries received in an air raid targeting his convoy in northeastern Syria — details at odds with Amaq’s account.

    Citing a “military source,” Amaq said Shishani was killed “in the town of Sharqat as he took part in repelling the military campaign on the city of Mosul,” referring to the last IS-held city in Iraq.

    5. May becomes Britain’s PM

    Theresa May took over as Britain’s new prime minister on July 13, charged with pulling the country out of the EU, and sprang a surprise by making top Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson foreign secretary.

    May replaced David Cameron after he stood down following the seismic* June 23 vote to leave the European Union, which sparked three weeks of intense political turmoil and volatility on the financial markets.

    May, who had supported Britain’s continued EU membership, moved quickly to heal divisions sparked by the referendum by appointing leading “Leave” campaigner Johnson to a senior Cabinet post.

    6. Sanders endorses Clinton in US election

    With hugs and handshakes, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for U.S. president Tuesday and emphatically told his supporters their “political revolution” must now turn to electing his Democratic former rival.

    Sanders bestowed his long-awaited support before a boisterous* New Hampshire crowd, declaring he wanted to make it “as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton.” He congratulated her for securing enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination and vowed to do everything he could to help her defeat Republican candidate Donald Trump.(SD-Agencies)