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                              A dead heat in Greece's referendum campaign with just two days to go before Sunday's vote on whether Greeks should accept more austerity in return for bailout loans. What would that mean for the Greek people and for the European Union's 16-year-old shared currency — the crown jewel of a six-decade-old project in binding Europe's countries closer together? For Greece, the short-term pain and turmoil could be extreme whereas the currency union would likely survive the initial shock. With aid negotiations off and ATMs running out of money, it's not speculation any more. Greece could leave the euro. And soon.

                                A book and flowers lay at the scene of the attack in Sousse, Tunisia. Tunisia's state news agency says the country's president is declaring a state of emergency more than a week after a beach attack targeting foreign tourists that killed 38 people. The news agency said President Beji Caid Essebsi would address the nation later Saturday, July 4 after declaring the state of emergency more than a week after the attack in the Tunisian resort of Sousse. It was not immediately clear why President Beji Caid Essebsi decided to declare the state of emergency on Saturday, or what it would entail. The state news agency said the president would address the nation later in the day.

Muslim brotherhood supporters throw rocks at a protest to mark the second anniversary of the military’s overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, Giza, Egypt, Friday, July 3, 2015. When he led the army’s overthrow of Egypt’s Islamist president two years ago, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi promised to usher in new stability for the country. Instead, now President el-Sissi is facing an even tougher challenge: An Islamic militant insurgency that unleashed its worst violence yet the past week. Two years to the day after the army overthrew Egypt's Islamist president, the sounds coming from the mosque at Cairo's Tahrir Square were sadly telling. At the focal point of Egypt's upheavals, where authorities had hoped to stage celebrations, there was instead a prayer for the week's dead, including soldiers cut down by militants in Sinai and the country's chief prosecutor, assassinated by car bomb in the capital. A sense of foreboding fills the air, with officials a...