- In Japan, the Upper House of the parliament (Diet) elected on Sunday. Japan's ruling Liberal Democrats able to keep their majority but the 2/3's majority for amending the country's constitution has been lost to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
- Political intrigue in Israel Sunday with Ayelet Shaked, the former Justice Minister, announcing she will be the new leader uniting political parties to the right of Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu's Likud.
- Who is behind all that remains a mystery?Other mysterious events surrounding the protests this weekend included police discovering explosives Saturday ahead of the Sunday protest and the egging and spray painting of a Chinese government office early Sunday morning.
- An unusual incident reported in Syria. Two killed and three wounded when a shell hit a car on a highway west of Damascus early Sunday morning. All of the casualties were civilians. The incident happening in government controlled territory near the town of Sasa.
- The Syrian government forces loyal to Bashar Assad building up their presence on the ground in northwestern Syria.Reinforcements have moved into northern Hama province according to pro-government sources.
- A former British First Sea Lord Admiral Alan West has told the BBC that the current Conservative Party government should have been more prudent in protecting British ships after the Iranian tanker was seized by British Royal Marines off Gibraltar on July 4th.
- Shaked was a former leader in the Jewish Home party and its current leader Rafi Peretz, Minister of Education, was summoned to a meeting with Netanyahu Sunday but later reports said the meeting was cancelled.
- Jihadist opposition forces and their allies launched a ground attack in northern Hama early Sunday morning but were repelled by the Syrian government forces.
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