Harris vice president race narrows - Five stories you need to know

1. The list of candidates to run with Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee, narrowed with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer both out.

2. Protests spread around Venezuela and police fired tear gas in the capital Caracas as the opposition said it had voting-tally proof it won a weekend election awarded to long-ruling socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

3. The United States is leading a diplomatic dash to deter Israel from striking Lebanon's capital Beirut or major civil infrastructure in response to a deadly rocket attack on the Golan Heights, five people with knowledge of the drive said.

4. Simone Biles is set to make her second appearance at the Paris Games on Tuesday in the women's gymnastics team final, where she hopes to win her fifth Olympic gold medal for the United States.

5. Landslides swept through tea estates in southern India's Kerala state on Tuesday, killing over 50 people, authorities said, as hillsides collapsed after heavy rain and sent rivers of mud, water and boulders on homes of workers and villagers.

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