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1. Puerto Rico is going to default. In a television address made Sunday, Puerto Rico's governor said the island will not make a $422 million payment due to its creditors by the end of business on Monday.
2. ISIS attacks have increased this year as the group responds to substantial territorial losses, an analysis firm said on Sunday.
3. A $28 billion merger is officially over. Halliburton and Baker Hughes announced Sunday that they terminated their merger agreement after it faced opposition from US and European antitrust regulators.
4. A massive fire broke out at the Serbian Cathedral of Saint Sava in New York City. The FDNY was on the scene with approximately 170 firefighters on Sunday evening.
5. India and the US are in talks to help each other track submarines in the Indian Ocean, military officials said, as China steps up its undersea activities.
6. Iraqi leaders promised on Sunday to deliver on radical reforms, as protesters held an unprecedented sit-in inside Baghdad's heavily fortified government district.
7. Britain's opposition Labour Party is the strong favorite to win London's mayoral election on Thursday. Sadiq Khan is as much as 20 points ahead of rival Conservative Zac Goldsmith in polls.
8. The first US cruise ship bound for Cuba in half a century set sail on Sunday. The Adonia, a vessel from the Carnival cruise's Fathom line, departed from Miami, Florida.
9. The White House announced the Malia Obama has chosen to attend Harvard University. The high school senior will take a gap year after she graduates and will begin her freshman year at Harvard in the fall of 2017.
10. Venezuela's vanishing supply of food appears to be a motivating factor for growing anti-government sentiment. According to a recent study, 87% of Venezuelans say their income is now insufficient to purchase their food needs.
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