Pak Alert Press | – At least 140 people were killed and more than 800 injured Sunday, according to China’s official news agency, in an explosion of ethnic violence in Urumqi, capital of China’s restive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The reports gave no details of how the deaths were caused. weiter…

Von Paul Craig Roberts | – On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. weiter…