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A major exercise to test how British police and security services would respond to what's been described as a "marauding" terrorist attack is being staged in London today and tomorrow.聽 Scotland Yard is stressing that the training drill has been planned for more than six months and is not in response to any new threat. Dominic Casciani reports.

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Greece is on the brink of missing an important repayment deadline, taking it a step closer to leaving the European single currency.聽 Athens has until late tonight to pay the International Monetary Fund 鈧�1.6bn. If it fails to do so then it risks becoming the first advanced economy to default on an IMF loan. Ngaire Woods is Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

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The police service is resistant to change because of an "insular attitude" and chief constables who fail to listen to officers, the body responsible for training in England and Wales says. A College of Policing review, requested by the Home Secretary, said the service needed to address issues of hierarchy, culture and consistency. Alex Marshall is the College of Policing鈥檚 chief executive constable.

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The shale gas industry in the UK has suffered a setback after planning permission for a fracking well near Blackpool was refused. Energy firm Cuadrilla wanted to extract shale gas at the Little Plumpton site between Preston and Blackpool but the County Council rejected the bid on the grounds of "unacceptable noise impact" and the "adverse urbanising effect on the landscape". Ken Cronin is chief executive officer at UKOOG. Liz Hutchins is senior campaigner at Friends of the Earth.

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An RAF plane arrived back in Britain overnight as the process of bringing back those injured in the terror attack in Tunisia continues. The Tunisian authorities arrested a 鈥渟ignificant鈥� number of people yesterday as they try to determine what led Seifeddine Rezgui to carry out the attack and whether he was the only gunman on the beach. Richard Slater, Maxine Midgely and Bronwyn were on the beach when the attack happened.

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A judge has published the full details of a case of three young British children who were abducted by their father and taken to Afghanistan. That happened more than two years ago.聽 Since then the children have been returned to this country and are now back with their mother. The case is important for the precedent it sets. Kim Motley is the lawyer who acted on the mother's behalf.

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More schools in England could face pressure to improve, or be forced to become academies, under tougher than expected plans published today by the government.聽 The Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says it's about tackling complacency by identifying schools that are underperforming, or "coasting".聽 But teaching unions say the definition is now being drawn so widely, that many good schools will also face uncertainty over their future. Nicky Morgan is education secretary.

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Greece is on the brink of missing an important repayment deadline, taking it a step closer to leaving the European single currency.聽 Athens has until late tonight to pay the International Monetary Fund 鈧�1.6bn. If it fails to do so then it risks becoming the first advanced economy to default on an IMF loan. Nicolas Vernicos is president of the Greek branch of the International Chamber of Commerce. Katya Adler is Europe editor.

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One of the biggest challenges to music radio is launched by Apple later today.聽 Their new app called 鈥楢pple Music鈥� will stream music online 24 hours a day. And it鈥檚 gone even further and created a radio station.聽 Zane Lowe, who left 大象传媒 Radio 1 in March, after more than a decade at the station, will host the first programme on 鈥楤eats One鈥�. And he鈥檚 not the only celebrity to join. Drake, Pharrell and Sir Elton John will all present shows. Ben Cooper is 大象传媒 Radio 1 and 1Xtra Controller.

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The United Nations is about to call time on its millennium development goals. They're a set of targets with lofty aims, including reducing extreme poverty and hunger, and improving health and education. Aid programmes including Britain's have been based on them. Over the next two days 大象传媒 News is going to be looking at what the goals have achieved, and Mishal Husain has been exploring that in Bangladesh.

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The UK must take urgent action to prepare for the impact of climate change, a group of MPs has warned. The Committee on Climate Change has published a report saying ministers should focus on the future risks of heatwaves and flooding. It said more needed to be done to keep emissions on track, although the government said it was committed to meeting its climate change target for 2020. Lord Deben is chairman of the Committee on Climate Change.

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As the deadline looms in talks between Iran and the American-led world powers on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the Foreign Minister of Bahrain has warned that failure to stop the Iranians from acquiring a nuclear weapon will trigger an arms race in the Middle East. In an exclusive interview, Sheikh Khalid Bin-Ahmad al Khalifa told the 大象传媒 that Saudi Arabia would be among the countries that would seek nuclear weapons for themselves if the Iranians developed a bomb. Kevin Connolly reports.

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A public lecture will take place tonight at the Royal Society in London to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Boole, the self-taught mathematical genius who is widely regarded as one of the most significant pioneers of the information age. As a celebration of George Boole鈥檚 life, a public lecture will take place tonight at the Royal Society in London which kicks off their Summer Science Exhibition. Professor Patrick Fitzpatrick is emeritus professor of Mathematics at University College Cork. Professor Muffy Calder is head of College of Science & Engineering at Glasgow University.

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