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Eighteen people died when a bus carrying pensioners crashed into the back of a truck in Germany, on the A9 Autobahn north of Nuremberg.  Rescuers complain they were delayed getting to the scene because of rubberneckers slowing down to get a look at the horror crash in progress before them.  The back of the truck was carrying mattresses and pillows and went up pretty quickly.

Pakistan now says the death toll from that gasoline tanker truck explosion a week ago is 206 lives lost, a drastic increase from the previous figure given.  Local police sought to play down the death toll, but were found out by a government investigation.  The truck overturned near Ahmedpur East on 25 June, and impoverished families rushed to the scene to try and scoop up some spilled fuel; but something ignited the petrol and the people were incinerated. 

Iraqi forces raised the country's flag over the al Jamuri Hospital in Mosul after liberating it from the so-called Islamic State, which the nihilist terrorists used as a sniper's platform to gun down fleeing civilians as well as advancing coalition troops.  The battle for Mosul has taken eight months but is expected to be over in a matter of days; and when it happens, IS will have lost its last major chunk of real estate in Iraq.

A Jewish extremist has been convicted in the arson at the Roman Catholic church built on the spot where Jesus was said to have performed the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes in 2015.  Israeli prosecutors used the trial of 22-year old Yinon Reuveni to make strong statement against Israeli nationalist terrorism; the defense plans to appeal the verdict.  Another defendant was acquitted, a third still faces trial.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a plan to reduce the size of Parliament by about one-third.  Macron's cuts would reduce the number of National Assembly members from 577 to 385, and the numbers of Senate members from 348 to 232.  "In the past, procedures have taken preference over results, rules over initiative, living off the public purse over fairness," he said.  

Communist guerilla leader Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londono is recovering in hospital after suffering a stroke.  It happened days after the Marxist FARC group completed handing over their weapons in accordance with the peace deal that ended five decades of civil war in Colombia.  In an interview published over the weekend, Timochenko discussed transitioning from the battlefield to the political arena:  "But at the Farc we are not in love with guns.  We love our cause and our ideals.  And if we can carry on with our ideals without the guns, so much the better," he told El Espectador newspaper.

Federal police would love to have a word with whoever might have "lost" AU$1.6 Million in cash found during a drugs raid on a warehouse in Western Sydney.  "We've kicked off a court process to have it listed as unclaimed cash - but if you reckon this cash is yours, we'd be very keen to speak with you," said the AFP in a statement.  "And by 'speak with you', we definitely mean to ask where you got a suitcase full of cash from.  We have a sneaking suspicion this isn't your average pay packet."  People have putting in joke claims to ask police where they can pick it up; cops respond, "Prison".