World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

World leaders have hailed the Iran nuclear deal, with Barack Obama seeing a "new direction" and Vladimir Putin voicing a global "sigh of relief" - though Israel criticised it as a "historic mistake".

ELSEWHERE:

LOS ANGELES - A US man who went by the nickname Gunrunner will face trial in Kansas next month accused of exporting guns and ammunition via Fedex to customers in Australia, England and Ireland.

LAUREL, United States - An unmanned NASA spacecraft has whizzed by Pluto, making its closest approach in the climax of a decade-long journey to explore the dwarf planet for the first time, the US space agency says.

WASHINGTON - Climate change is a big worry in Latin America, Asia and Africa, but the Islamic State group spells more anxiety among Europeans, North Americans and Australians, a global opinion poll suggests.

NEW YORK - Harper Lee's second novel has flown out of stores in one of the most eagerly anticipated book releases in modern publishing history and half a century after her masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird hit the shelves.

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - UNESCO has thrown cold water over an American explorer's claims he has discovered the sunken treasure of infamous 17th-century pirate William Kidd off the coast of Madagascar.

LONDON - The British government has been forced into a dramatic climbdown after its plans to relax a ban on fox hunting reopened the bitter divisions that surrounded the introduction of the law a decade ago.

ASPEN, Colorado - Pinterest is not a social network, but a "catalogue of ideas" to help people discover and try new things in their lives, founder and chief executive Ben Silbermann says.


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