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World Cup and ISIS on The World for 6-30

ISIS rebels follow through on their promise to declare a new Islamic state in the Middle East. We'll hear what they're claiming and how it's going down in the region. Also today, how Iraqis are using an app called FireChat to get around their government's restrictions on Internet access during the fighting.

The newsroom remains gripped by all the unfolding dramas at the World Cup. Our own William Troop is in Brazil. He'll brief us on the weekend action and preview tomorrow's US game against Belgium. The World's Clark Boyd happens to be in Belgium so we'll hear about preparations there as well. And our beloved Izzy the Ocelot will make his prediction on that outcome of that game.

Plus the British government makes a fresh bid to get haggis, the pudding made of sheep innards, into the US market. Would you eat haggis?

And Washington DC's diverse and polyglot taxi drivers form an unlikely union..