World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic pointed his finger aggressively at hotel security officers and dismissed police officers' requests to leave a $US7000-a-night Miami Beach hotel penthouse after complaints of loud music and early morning partying, according to authorities.

ELSEWHERE:

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee - Four Marines have been killed in twin shootings at US military centres in the southern state of Tennessee, officials say, opening a probe into what they said was a possible act of "domestic terrorism."

CENTENNIAL, Colorado - The jury in the trial of alleged "Batman" cinema massacre killer James Holmes has reached a verdict, a court spokesman says.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - A white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church will stand trial next July, a judge has ruled.

FRANKFURT - Eurozone ministers have approved the launch of Greece bailout talks and the ECB boosted its cash lifeline to the crisis-hit country after MPs in Athens grudgingly passed a tough reform package demanded by creditors.

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin says that establishing an international tribunal to prosecute those behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held east Ukraine would be counterproductive.

STOCKHOLM - Swedish prosecutors say that they are still waiting for Ecuador's permission to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, as the statute of limitations nears for some of his alleged crimes.

KANO, Nigeria - At least 49 people have been killed and dozens injured in twin blasts that struck a market in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe, according to rescue workers.


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