Iran
Iran left with no choice but to confront the US, official warns jpost
Iran's Press TV quoted Larijani nytimes as issuing the warning in light of legislation proposed by US opponents to the Iran nuclear deal to further sanction the Islamic Republic and the UN's first bi-annual report on the deal's implementation released earlier this week which suggested that Iran was not following "the spirit of the deal."
Turkey
WHAT DOES ERDOGAN’S STATE OF EMERGENCY MEAN FOR TURKEY? newsweek
In a televised national address, Erdogan pledged to remove “viruses” from the military, saying that the country had to take whatever necessary means to prevent a coup, while insisting that the country’s democracy would not be harmed. “It is very similar to a cancer,” he said. “It is like a metastasis that is going on in the body that is Turkey. And we will clean it out.”
Also see Turkey Begins 3-Month State Of Emergency Amid Ongoing Crackdown npr and Turkey suspends European Convention on Human Rights as it enacts state of emergency telegraph.co.uk
UN
Who will be the next UN Secretary General? Voting begins to choose from 12 candidates telegraph.co.uk v
There is a strong sense within the organisation that the next leader must be someone who can revitalise an organisation seen as obtuse, unaccountable and ineffective.
Also see Race for New UN Chief Heats Up europenews and Ex-Portugal leader emerges as front-runner to become new U.N. chief cnn
Society
B.C. Christian university takes fight over law school to Ontario top court thestar
A private Christian university twu that forbids sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage will be in Ontario’s top court this week, seeking a green light for its proposed law school after the province’s law society denied it accreditation.
Environmental
Earth on track for hottest year ever as warming speeds up dailystar.lb w!
June marked the 14th straight month of record heat, the United Nations agency said. It called for speedy implementation of a global pact reached in Paris last December ec.europa.eu to limit climate change by shifting from fossil fuels to green energy by 2100.
Iraq's marshes, once drained by Saddam, named world heritage site reuters
Fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the marshlands of Mesopotamia are spawning grounds for Gulf fisheries and home to bird species such as the sacred ibis. They also provide a resting spot for thousands of wildfowl migrating between Siberia and Africa.
Why this article? Its interesting location, from a Biblical point of view (Gen 2:10-14)
Creatures
Saving Endangered Ferrets … With Peanut Butter news.nationalgeographic v
Conservationists have been trying to save North America’s only native ferret for more than four decades. Twice it has been declared extinct. Now, scientists have come up with a pioneering plan to protect the black-footed ferret by protecting its prey against disease.
Space
Dark Matter Still a Mystery: Most Sensitive Search Yet Comes Up Empty space
Researchers presented the results today (July 21) at the 11th Identification of Dark Matter Conference (IDM2016) in Sheffield, U.K., which gathers together researchers seeking to understand dark matter, the mysterious material that appears to make up more than four-fifths of the universe's mass, but which scientists have not observed directly.
Also see Why is Dark Matter everywhere in the cosmos? creation
The worldview that underlies modern cosmology, and cosmogony (on the origin of the universe) is an atheistic one. It has no place for a Creator, and only relies on what man can discover for himself. As a result he has had to resort to all sorts of fudge factors to make his model fit the observational data, the evidence from the cosmos. Dark matter has arisen from this. But even when assumed to fix such problems the supposed dark matter does not behave like normal matter under the influence of gravity. It is stranger than fiction and I am afraid it is no more real than the ‘Emperors’ new clothes’.
With a tweet, astronomers crack open mystery of a massive bulge at the center of our galaxy washingtonpost
Lang’s photo succeeded in cracking open a scientific mystery of a hypothesized — though until now unconfirmed — X-shaped lump at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Research
Rescue drone in development at University of New Brunswick cbc.ca
The "Breeze Bird" breezebird development team is working on a concept the could see automatic drones launch over shorelines and coastal areas, identify people in danger of drowning, and drop flotation devices — all with the push of a button.
Robots
BratWurst Bot serves up brats in Berlin gizmag v
Earlier this month, a cybernetic, one-armed sausage chef specializing in bratwurst served up steady stream of German bangers for a celebrity crowd. The robotic short-order cook, called BratWurst Bot, was built by the Forschungszentrum Informatik fzi.de (FZI) based in Karlesruhe, Germany out of off-the-shelf parts as a technology demonstrator to show how easy it is to create new, practical robots without the need for special fabrication.
Drones
Facebook's Aquila drone completes first test flight usatoday v
Aquila, with the wingspan of a Boeing 737, remained aloft at low altitudes for 96 minutes, more than three times longer than Facebook originally planned. Facebook had been testing a much smaller scale version of Aquila for several months, but this flight a month ago was the first true test of the aircraft.
Other...
Customs Seizes 100,000 Phony Chocolate Eggs hamodia
I had to look these eggs up to see what the originals were like: THE CANDY THAT WON'T MAKE IT PAST [U.S.] CUSTOMS ozy
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