• Michaela Whitbourn

Montrell Jackson felt "physically and emotionally" beaten by the unrest in his home town.

The gunman who killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been identified as an American citizen named Gavin Long, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

• Live

A divided Republican Party meets to nominate controversial presidential candidate Donald Trump.

• Latika Bourke

An Australian couple feared the Bastille Day attack truck, which halted in front of their hotel, would be a bomb.

• Yasmeen Abutaleb, Dustin Volz

Twitter moved swiftly to remove posts from Islamic extremists glorifying a truck attack in Nice, France, watchdog groups have said, in a rare round of praise for a platform that has often struggled to contain violent propaganda.

• Anggy Polanco

Desperate Venezuelans took advantage of a temporary opening of the Colombian border to buy food and medicine unavailable in their collapsing economy.

• Yamiche Alcindor and Alan Rappeport

The barricades were up and the police were ready, but the rowdy protests expected to descend this week on Cleveland for the Republican National Convention were contained to small pockets of unrest amid largely peaceful demonstrations across the city.

Police troops in Istanbul, Turkey have been ordered to down helicopters, according to news alerts on social media.

• COMMENT
• Paul McGeough

Take a slingshot to the Republican Party convention and you'll likely go for a drive in a paddy wagon; take your semi-automatic AR-15 gun in there – and that's cool.

• Peter Hermann

A man wanted in connection with a rape led police in Baltimore on a chase Sunday on afternoon that ended with a gunman rushing into a Burger King and taking four hostages, including a child, a department spokesman said.

• John Irish, Emmanuel Jarry, Tom Morgan and Kieran Gair

Police arrested a man and a woman in the French city of Nice on Sunday morning in connection with the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day, a judiciary source said.

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

And so another cot-case nation is born. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan already has begun consolidating in the wake of Friday's failed coup, with a vengeful purge of the military and the judiciary to help drive home a ruthless bid to consolidate virtually all power in his strongman presidency.

• Tim Arango, Ceylan Yeginsu

As dawn broke on Saturday, the citizens of Turkey emerged sleep-deprived and angst-ridden after a night of violence that felt more like life in war-stricken neighbors like Syria or Iraq.

• Syed Raza Hassan, Mehreen Zahra-Malik

The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts both titillated and appalled conservative Pakistan, on Sunday admitted to strangling her in a crime that reignited debate about so-called "honour killings" in the South Asian nation.

• Tom Morgan, David Chazan and Camilla Turner in Nice

The terrorist behind the Bastille Day atrocity was radicalised in a matter of weeks, French officials indicated on Saturday after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the lorry rampage and described him as a "soldier of Islam".

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday and shook buildings in Tokyo, officials and witnesses said, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage.