Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state raise questions about the nature of the department's relationship with the Clinton Foundation.  Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, released 296 pages of emails from the Democratic presidential nominee, including 44 that Judicial Watch says were not previously handed over to the State Department by Clinton. The emails, many of which are heavily redacted, raise questions about the Clinton Foundation's influence on the State Department and its relations during her tenure.

The administration of Mauricio Macri said they would continue to demand sovereignty over the Malvinas, termed the Falklands in the U.K. Susana Malcorra, Argentina's foreign minister said “The disagreement we have about the Malvinas is part of our constitution and important to the Argentine people, we cannot deny its existence," . Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May sent a letter to Macri asking him to “move the relationship between the U.K. and Argentina into a more productive phase.”

African National Congress is now facing an uncertain future after shocking loss in local elections. The fact is even more suprising when we realise that this paty has been ruling the country since the end of apartheid. They came into power in 1994 with Nelson Mandela as a leader. Despite the fact that National Congress loss only in local elections, in South Africe, as in many democratic countries, these kind of elections are widely seen as a referendum on the current popularity of the central government.

Libyan militias, with the United States support, get the control over the headquarters of the Islamic State in Sirte. The spokesman of the loyal to the UN-backed Libyan government told that "the Ouagadougou centre is in our hands”. Sirte, which is situated on the Mediterranean coast is the IS stronghold in Libya. IS controlled Sirte since the February 2015. According to the pro-governmental forces, IS a still control some residential areas in of Sirte. As pro-governmental forces stated, the capturing of Ouagadougou centre was the main objective in the last offensive.

TRT News reported that, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu has offered to connect the Turkish Stream pipeline, which the project is being developed by Russia, to the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), via which Azerbaijani gas planning to be delivered to European markets in 2020. The Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said in his speech that Ankara will buy only 16 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year via the Turkish Stream. The remaining volume of Russian gas can be exported through Turkey via TANAP by connecting it to the Turkish Stream.

The conflict in the South China Sea is likely to heat up. Although Vietnam is trying to disproof the information, saying that it is inaccurate, it has been reported that they recently discretely transported new mobile rocket launchers to the Spartly Islands. It is considered to be one of the bravest military moves on the side of Vietnam in the past few decades, and one that will doubtlessly irritate China. Earlier in July Deputy Defense Minister, Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Chi Vinh, has told Reuters that Vietnam does not have such launchers or weapons in the Spartly Islands, but also warned that the government will not retreat from such actions if necessary.