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The Iranian Parliament was in session when gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Iranian Parliament and the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic. (Photo by Parmida Rahimi) Photo used under CC BY

Iran’s Guards blame Saudis for deadly terror attack

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have blamed Saudi Arabia for the first terrorist attack claimed by ISIS in their country, setting the stage for spiraling tensions between the two rivals at a critical moment in the region. At least 12 people were killed and dozens more injured in attacks on the Iranian Parliament and a mausoleum.

Guardian

Amid Iraq’s battle against ISIS, civilians suffer

Stumbling through the debris-strewn streets, past the blown-out buildings and burned-out vehicle husks, civilian battle survivors make their way toward Iraqi forces. ISIS executes anyone who tries to flee.

CNN

Despite US needs, Trump sides with foes of Qatar

President Donald Trump injected the United States into a volatile crisis among America’s Mideast allies, siding with Saudi Arabia and other countries against Qatar in a dispute that threatens to disrupt efforts to defeat the Islamic State group and counter Iran.

Associated Press

Kuwait tries to mediate crisis between Qatar, Arab nations

Associated Press

German foreign minister accuses US of stirring up Middle East conflict

Deutsche Welle

Russia planted fake Qatar crisis news

MSN

Comey: Trump sought exoneration on Russia

Fired FBI Director James Comey aimed a dagger blow at Donald Trump, saying the president demanded his loyalty, pressed him to drop a probe into ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, and repeatedly pressured him to declare that he was not under investigation.

CNN

Coats, Rogers refuse to say if Trump asked them to sway Russia probe

Politico

HUMAN RIGHTS

US may pull out of UN Human Rights Council

The Trump administration is warning that the U.S. might leave the U.N. Human Rights Council, arguing that it displays anti-Israel bias and ignores violations by certain countries.

NPR

Amnesty urges UK to pressure Israel on rights

Amnesty International has called on the UK to ban the import of all goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements and use its influence to stop human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Yahoo! News

May will rip up human rights laws for terrorists

Speaking to Conservative activists in Slough, May said she wanted “longer prison sentences for those convicted of terrorist offences.” The prime minister went on to say she wanted to make it “easier for authorities to deport foreign terrorist suspects back to their own country.”

International Business Times

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

House Dem to begin impeachment proceedings

The day before former FBI Director James Comey testifies before Congress about his interactions with President Donald Trump regarding his probe of Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign, a House Democrat plans to draft articles of impeachment.

CNN

Senate OKs bill to make firing employees easier

The Senate approved broad legislation to make firing employees easier for the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs, part of an accountability effort urged by President Donald Trump following years of high-profile problems.

Associated Press

Lawmakers consider penalties for opioid crimes

A draft of the legislation reviewed by NPR suggests the plan would give the attorney general a lot more power to ban all kinds of synthetic drugs, since criminals often change the recipe to evade law enforcement. It would impose a 10-year maximum sentence on people caught selling them as a first offense. That would double if they do it again.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Twitter users threaten legal action on Trump

Two Twitter users who were blocked by Trump after they criticized the president are claiming that their exclusion from being one of Trump’s 31.7 million followers amounts to a First Amendment breach of their constitutional rights.

Ars Technica

First Amendment group threatens to sue Trump

Poynter.org

Earth’s increased risk of getting hit by asteroid

Earth may be threatened by a newly discovered branch of a stream of meteoroids, increasing the risk that the planet will be struck by a meteoroid or asteroid.

LiveScience

Study explores heart monitoring in vehicles

Medical emergencies cause a high number of vehicle crashes. Now researchers have teamed up with Toyota to examine whether new vehicle technology could predict -- and potentially prevent -- such scenarios.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

A push to vaccinate boys for HPV

A mum-of-two is calling for boys to receive a vaccine currently only given to girls to protect against cancer. The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) jab is offered to teenage girls in the UK to protect against cervical cancer. A health committee will meet later to review whether boys should also be given the jab, which can protect against throat and penile cancers.

BBC

Botched vaccine kills 15 children in S. Sudan

In a tragic turn in South Sudan, an effort to protect 15 children ended up killing them. The children, all under age 5, died of severe sepsis and toxicity due to a botched vaccination campaign, according to a joint statement issued by UNICEF and the World Health Organization.

NPR

Minnesota measles outbreak rages

Ars Technica

5,000 new cholera cases in Yemen each day

A cholera outbreak is spreading quickly in war-ravaged Yemen, with an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 new cases every day, the U.N. children’s agency said.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins):

NFL players to Congress: Let’s fix the justice system

CNN

Column (Arjun Sethi):

Donald Trump promised to go after leakers. Now he’s doing just that

The Guardian

Column (Bachir Amroune):

Young princes in the Persian Gulf are playing with fire

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

The tweet heard ’round the wrold

The word of the week is covfefe. Say it loud and there’s music playing; say it soft and it’s almost like praying — covfefe. Just after midnight one night, President Trump tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” — and nothing more. Let the fun begin.

NPR

One Love Manchester concert: ‘Tonight is all about love’

New York Daily News

Harley teaching town to ride motorcycles

Teaching an entire town to ride motorcycles is an ambitious goal, but that’s what Harley-Davidson is attempting this summer in Ryder, N.D., a farm community. Harley aims to introduce every willing resident to motorcycling – making it the first town in America where everybody has a motorcycle license.

USA TODAY

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Bloomberg commits $15M to climate change

In response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $15 million commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretariat.

Philanthropy News Digest

NAACP plans listening tour, new leader

Leaders at the NAACP are preparing to embark on a listening tour to inform the future, more locally focused direction of the organization. Cornell William Brooks, president of the organization for the past three years, will not be joining them.

NonProfit Times

Egyptian law restricts foreign-funded NGOs

Egypt joined a chorus of countries tightening restrictions on nonprofits operating in their countries with foreign funding support when President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed a law this week that would punish offenders with up to five years of imprisonment.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Environmentalists vow to fight coal mine

Indian mining giant Adani is set to go ahead with a massive coal mine in northeastern Australia. Environmental activists have warned of the danger to the Great Barrier Reef, calling it a “disaster for the climate.”

Deutsche Welle

How El Niño and global warming combine

Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating combination of global warming and El Niño is responsible for causing extreme temperatures in April 2016 in Southeast Asia.

Environmental News Network

Filipino fishermen say: Not on our watch

A community in the Philippines is fighting illegal fishing and protecting its environment with patrols - and pride in their waters.

Deutsche Welle

BUSINESS

Sugar dispute threatens Mexico trade

Soda giant Coca-Cola Co and major corn syrup makers have joined the political battle against the U.S. sugar industry in recent weeks, as the deadline to hammer out a years-long trade dispute with Mexico nears.

Reuters

Concerns hang over global airlines conference

A deadly attack in London and debate over travel restrictions in the United States put safety concerns high on the agenda as global airline executives gathered for the industry’s largest meeting of the year.

Reuters

Paris accord retreat is ‘bad for business’

It’s “bad for business” remains one of President Trump’s main reasons for opposing the Paris Climate Agreement and other policies to slow heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. But it’s increasingly hard to square that dubious justification with the who’s who of American business leadership lined up in strong support of staying in the pact.

Star Tribune

Photo of the Day

Young women, and a boy, smile for a photographer in Tigray, Ethiopia. About 5 million Tigrayan people live in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and in bordering Eritrea. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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