Death toll rises to 200 from Baghdad shopping mall attacks

Iraqi policemen gather on July 4, 2016 at the site of a suicide-bombing attack which took place a day earlier in Baghdad. (AFP)

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

  • The death toll from a car bomb attack in a Baghdad shopping mall keeps rising. So far, two hundred and thirteen people are confirmed dead.
  • Israeli troops storm into the West Bank town of Dura, near al-Khalil, engaging in fierce clashes with Palestinians.
  • Israel approves the construction of some 800 settler units in the East Jerusalem al-Quds, as the United Nations says Tel Aviv’s policies are steadily eroding the viability of a two-state solution.
  • A bomb attack outside the US Consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah injures two security guards.
  • Afghans are preparing for Eid-al Fitr. Press TV's correspondent from Kabul will report on the special festivities marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

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