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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jaliel, and in the early hours of Monday the 14th of July,

these are our main stories.

Israel blames the so-called technical error for an attack

that killed 10 Palestinians, most of them children,

who'd been queuing for water at a Gaza refugee camp.

The Iranian president is reported to have been wounded

when Israel bombed a secret underground headquarters during last month's war.

The former Nigerian president and military ruler, Mohamedu Bihari,

has died at the age of 82.

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Ten people, six of them children, who'd been waiting to fill water containers at a distribution point in Gaza,

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