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Islamic State militants reportedly massacred Yazidi civilians in an attack on a village in northern Iraq.  The men of Kocho town were rounded up and killed for not converting to Islam.  The women and children were reportedly taken captive and sent to Sunni fighters in other areas.  The Sunni fighters of Islamic State have driven an estimated 1.2 million Iraqis from their homes, displacing entire communities of Yazidis, Christians, and Shiite Iraqis, whom IS do not regard as “true” Muslims.

With the loathed former prime minister Nouri al-Mailiki out of the way in Baghdad, Iraqi Sunni leaders are offering to help new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi fight Islamic State in the north.  The Sunnis say they could join the new government if they were given equal status to that of the central government.  Maliki was widely criticized for consolidating power among his Shiite friends.

The White House is urging Moscow to cease its “extremely dangerous and provocative” acts in eastern Ukraine.  Journalists saw a column of Russian military vehicles break off from a supposed aid convoy, illegally cross the Ukrainian border on a dirt road, and head for territory controlled by the Moscow-backed separatists.  Ukraine says its artillery destroyed that convoy.

And just what is in the hundreds of trucks making up that Russian convoy poised along Ukraine’s border?  Reporters who’ve been able to look inside have found many of them to be practically empty.  With the contents of others loaded onto pallets and wrapped in plastic, reporters could only see the surfaces.  The Red Cross says Moscow has steadfastly refused to provide the manifests, and Ukraine won’t let the convoy in until the contents are confirmed independently. 

The “black box” did not record audio on the small plane that crashed near Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos.  Investigators say they are trying to identify what was on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR).  The plane crashed Wednesday in bad weather.  Although Campos was polling in third place, his death throws the race into unknown territory as voters realign themselves.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the nation had been shamed by a recent spate of rapes, and that parents must teach their sons the difference between right and wrong.  The comments in Modi’s first Independence Day speech seem to repudiate local officials who have been criticized for blaming the victims in a series of high profile and disturbing crimes.  Modi also announced plans to make bank accounts available to every Indian family.  If successful, it would allow the government to eventually convert subsidies for food, fuel and fertilizer into cash transfers.

The international medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (“Doctors Without Borders”) says the West African Ebola Outbreak will take at least six more months to bring under control.  The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said 76 more people died since the latest official counting, raising the death toll to 1,145 fatalities out of 2,127 infections.  MSF President Joanne Liu says out of the four countries reporting infections, one will be the key:  “If we don't stabilize Liberia,” Liu said, “we will never stabilize the region”. 

Another aid workers is coming forward to say international health officials are vastly underestimating the scope of the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa.  Tarnue Karbbar of the aid group Plan International in northern Liberia – outside the major cities – says response teams aren’t able to document all of the deaths because families bury the dead before they are counted in official figures. In the last several days, some 75 cases have emerged in a single district.  Improper handling of corpses is one of the ways Ebola spreads through communities. 

The former American Vice President Al Gore is suing the Al Jazeera news network over breach of contract.  Al Jazeera purchased Gore’s progressive news network Current TV last year, but Gore says the Qatari-based broadcaster is now trying to keep more than A$70 Million of the agreed price.  Al Jazeera hasn’t commented.