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At least two people are reported to have died in the bombing of a maternity hospital in Syria.  This is according to the charity Save The Children which operates the facility in Kafer Takhareem, Idlib Province.  The injuries are horrible:  A pregnant woman lost a leg, and several babies were hurt when their incubators crashed to the ground.  This is the latest in a series of air strikes that have targeted hospitals in Syria:  Government forces and their Russian allies put four makeshift hospitals and a local blood bank in Aleppo out of action last week, and the US is investigating reports that coalition air strikes have killed 28 civilians in a northern Syrian village near Manbij.

Russia's entire weightlifting team is now banned from the Summer Olympics, which are supposed to start in less than a week on 5 August in Rio de Janeiro.  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) left it to individual athletics federations to act on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) report which exposed widespread state-sponsored doping.  The federations governing international boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball, and tae kwon do could ban more Russian athletes this weekend. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is blasting the head of US Central Command General Joseph Votel for openly worrying about Turkish democracy after the failed "coup" attempt two weeks ago, and noting that Erdogan's detention of some military leaders could damage Turkish-American military co-operation.  "Know your place!" the increasingly dictatorial Erdogan bellowed.  "My people know who is behind this scheme," he said, "They know who the superior intelligence behind it is, and with these statements you are revealing yourselves, you are giving yourselves away."  Gen. Votel said any reports that he was involved in the coup were "unfortunate and completely inaccurate".  More than 18,000 people have been detained or jailed in the post-coup crackdown, and tens of thousands of teachers, cops, and civil employees deemed disloyal to Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked by a horse) have been dismissed from their jobs.

Campaigners are praising Egypt for finally arresting a doctor who was the first to be convicted of carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM).  Dr. Raslan Fadl was sentenced in January 2015 over the death of 13-year old Souheir al-Bataa, who died after being subjected to the illegal and evil procedure.  But he had somehow avoided custody until now.  FGM was banned in Egypt in 2008 but the country still has one of the highest rates of the practice in the world.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the justice system failed in the murder of a priest in a church in Normandy.  Both suspects declared allegiance to Islamic State, and both were killed after a stand-off with police.  But one had already been charged with terrorism, but had been released with an electronic tag pending trial.  Mr. Valls says the failure must by acknowledged, but:  "This does not mean that my government is to blame, because that decision was taken by independent judges."

An African Union court is ordering former Chad dictator Hissene Habre to pay millions of dollars in compensation to victims of his crimes against humanity.  Justices already convicted the man often called "Africa's Pinochet" of rape, sexual slavery, and ordering killings of opponents real and imagined during his rule from 1982 to 1990.  With an average of almost AU$45,000 going to at least 4,700 confirmed victims, Habre stands to lose well more than AU$211 Million.

Brazil will try former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on charges of obstruction in the "Operation Car Wash" investigation into alleged kickbacks at the state oil company Petrobras.  Lula denies trying to stymie the investigation, and has appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Committee with allegations his rights have been violated in a flagrantly biased probe being pursued by conservatives with a vendetta.

More than 75,000 people have signed a petition calling on a Chinese university to apologize to two Lesbian students.  Guangdong University of Foreign Studies initially denied their diplomas when Jean Ouyang proposed to Xiaoyu Wang during graduation ceremonies.  They did eventually get their degrees, but were told to "keep our homosexuality to ourselves".  Complaining about their treatment on social media, Ms. Wang said: "The most romantic day of my life turned into a nightmare."  They also say they've been threatened with retaliation by the local Communist Party, which in China doesn't know the first freakin thing about being Communist.