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Japan's Kei Nishikori is among the lower seeds who could be a threat at the US Open

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says Macron has made some suggestions on the nuclear deal that are 'moving in the right direction'

Six EU countries Friday agreed to take in 356 migrants stranded on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after a two-week standoff again exposed the failure of European leaders to deal quickly with desperate people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa.The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, run by charities MSF and SOS Mediterranee, had been seeking a port after rescuing four boats of migrants off the Libyan coast between August 9 and 12.

The following infographic shows the eight largest economies by share of global GDP between 1980 and 2019.

This Mato Grosso Firefighters Department handout picture shows a firefighter giving water to an armadillo during the inspection of a recently burned forest area near Nova Mutum, in Mato Grosso state

Interest rates for US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2005-2019.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attributes the fires to increased drought, and accuses environmental groups and NGOs of whipping up an "environmental psychosis"

Serena Williams, right, and Maria Sharapova will meet in a first-round match next week at the US Open

Map of Northern Ireland and the border with the Irish Republic.

Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes.Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter. #PrayforAmazonas is the top trending hashtag in the world on Wednesday, with more than 249,000 tweets."No matter how successful we are, if our Earth dies, we all die," posted one Twitter user.

The G7 summit in Biarritz, France from August 24–26 will end without any formal agreement for the first time in its 44-year history. President Donald Trump had refused to sign a joint statement at the Ottawa G7 summit last year.

An eight-year German boy took his mother’s car on a joy ride on a highway in western Germany, managing to reach 87 miles per hour. He was found by police and his mother shortly after she called the authorities. He was in tears and said he just wanted to drive a little.

The ECB is worried

Interest rates for US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2005-2019.

Some migrants were taken off for medical treatment; others tried to swim ashore from the boat

Italy's president concluded a first day of crisis talks on Wednesday in a bid to form a new coalition government as a proposed alliance between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and opposition centre-left Democratic Party appeared to gain traction.President Sergio Mattarella met political figures, including the leaders of both houses of parliament, following the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and the disintegration of Italy's anti-immigrant government.

Corey Joseph will suit up for Team Canada per Nick Nurse, rebuffing rumors that the Sacramento Kings guard will be withdrawing in the FIBA World Cup wars.

An official in Emmanuel Macron's office said that France sees a no-deal Brexit as imminent.

Nvidia promises to bring more than 1,000 games and 30 million hours of gameplay.

With the fires raging for over three weeks now, concerns have grown over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy.

Johnson has said the UK will leave the EU with or without a deal on October 31