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The "Queen of Soul", Aretha Franklin, is "gravely ill" according to family sources quoted by local media in her native Detroit.  "I spoke with her family members this morning.  She is asking for your prayers at this time," said friend and reporter Evron Cassimy of WDIV-TV in the Motor City.  The exact nature of her illness is not clear, but it is known that she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2010.  "I'm doing well generally, all test have come back good," she told US Magazine last year, "I've lost a lot of weight due to side effects of medicine, it affects your weight."  In her singing career that goes back six decades, she is known for legendary hits such as "I Say a Little Prayer", "Respect", and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman".  She also has a long association with the US Civil Rights movement, and performed both at Martin Luther King's funeral and at Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at the United States for economic sanctions that sent the national currency plunging for another trading day.  "We are together in NATO and then you stab your strategic partner in the back," Erdogan said.  Donald Trump last week slapped economic sanctions on Turkey over the jailing of a US christian pastor accused of supporting the 2016 failed coup.  Despite Erdogan's claims that his country's economy is strong, the Turkish Lira tanked again today as a result, now trading at 14 Cents to the US Dollar. 

Donald Trump's anti-journalism rhetoric is "very close to incitement to violence", according to the outgoing UN human rights commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein.  Trump's calls of "fake news" and "the lying press" could "set in motion a chain of events which could quite easily lead to harm being inflicted on journalists just going about their work and potentially some self-censorship," Zeid said.  "And in that context, it's getting very close to incitement to violence."  Zeid also sais that cooperation between his office and the US State Department dropped off once Ttrump moved into the White House in January 2017.

China is denying holding up to a million ethnic Uighurs in "reeducation camps", as alleged by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.  "The argument that one million Uighurs are detained in re-education centres is completely untrue," said Chinese Communist Party official Hu Lianhe at a meeting in Geneva; he added, "Those who are deceived by religious extremism.. shall be assisted through resettlement and education."  China has been dealing with Uighur and Islamist separatism in western Xinjiang which has spilled over into terrorist attacks in the east.  

The leaders of North and South Korea will hold another summit next month in Pyongyang, the third such meeting in the recent thawing of the Korean peninsula's relations.  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in previously met in April and in May.  It comes as North Korea and the United States are struggling to figure out how to bring about the North's denuclearization, which Donald Trump claims was agreed upon at his Singapore Summit with Mr. Kim.  US and international intelligence sources have said that while the North has taken superficial steps towards closing nuclear facilities, others are still operating and new ICBMs are under construction.

Taiwan authorities believe an electrical short might be the cause of a fire that killed nine people at a high rise nursing home attached to a public hospital in New Taipei City.  At least 15 people are hurt and another 23 patients were transferred to other facilities.

Israeli TV is reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a rare, secret visit to Egypt in May for talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.  But Israel and Hamas have clashed repeated shortly before and after at the Gaza border:  Israelis killed at least 169 Palestinians since 30 March, mostly during clashes sparked by demonstrations, while Hamas has launched rockets into Israeli territory and killed one Israeli soldier in July.  A ceasefire did come into effect on Thursday.

More than 300 people are injured, five seriously, in the collapse of a boardwalk at a sports and music festival in Vigo, Spain.  Hundreds were gathered to watch a rap artist perform; some were spilled into the sea when the wooden boardwalk gave way, and personal effects such as mobile phones and wallets were strewn about the scene.

Kenya has charged two senior government officials with fraud over the building of a US$3.2 Billion rail line funded by China.  Kenya Railways head Atanas Maina and National Land Commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri spent the weekend in jail and pleaded not guilty to the charges on Monday, as did 15 co-defendants.  Prosecutors say the two paid out more than $2 Million to companies that falsely claimed to own land through which the line ran. 

Australian actor Ruby Rose has quit Twitter, at least for the time being, after a backlash to her being cast as Batwoman on a TV series.  Apparently that's what some people care about as the world literally burns around us due to environmental degradation and poor political leadership around the globe.  Anyway, some people started complaining she's too gay, not gay enough, not Jewish (as depicted in the comic book), and Ms. Rose is dismissing the criticism as the "most ridiculous thing".  'Hard to disagree with that.