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First things first:  Tokyo's Ueno Zoo released new footage of its Baby Panda Cub!!!

The United States is calling an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council about North Korea's latest missile launch, which Pyongyang claims was a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).  State TV said said Hwasong-14 makes North Korea "a full-fledged nuclear power that has been possessed of the most powerful inter-continental ballistic rocket capable of hitting any part of the world".  The US apparently believes that claim to be true - meaning that the missile is capable of reaching Alaska and most if not all American military bases in the Pacific, depending on the accuracy of the missile's targeting system. 

Russia and China want the US to halt deployment of an anti-missile system in South Korea, as part of their new, shared policy for de-escalating the trouble on the Korean peninsula.  This announcement came out of the meeting of President Vladimir Putin and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin.  Both countries condemned North Korea's missile launch as "unacceptable".

China arrested several people for illegally raising funds for the "straddling bus", the highly publicized and futuristic public transportation project that fizzled out in recent weeks because it doesn't work. 
It didn't work
As concerns mount that it was nothing more than an investment scam, police say they are working to recover the assets of investors, who were promised a 12 percent return once the buses were speeding over gridlocked city streets.

A human rights activist arrested in Bahrain is at immediate risk of torture and sexual assault, according to Amnesty International.  At least 25 masked, plainclothes cops showed up at Ebtisam al-Saegh's home Monday night, confiscating her national ID and mobile phone before whisking her off to a prison in Manama.  Bahrain authorities have stepped up a crackdown on critics over the past year, breaking up the country's largest secular opposition group and attacking Shiite Muslim groups in the predominantly Sunni kingdom.

Germany's foreign minister says Qatar's sovereignty must be respected, and praised the country's "restraint" in response to the economic and diplomatic blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain.  Kuwait is currently mediating the biggest break in Gulf States relations in years.  The Saudi bloc gave Qatar until Sunday to meet a list of demands which suspiciously included shutting down the Al Jazeera news network; that deadline has passed as indirect talks continue.

In a rare show of European disunity, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attacked the European Parliament as "ridiculous, totally ridiculous".  This was because only 30 members out of 751 bothered to show up to discuss the EU's struggle to relocate multitudes of refugees from Italy and Greece, which you'd think was in everyone's interests.  Parliament President Antonio Tajani angrily retorted, "But it's not the Commission's job to control the parliament, it's the Parliament that has to control the Commission."  Juncker says the lack of attendance shows the European Parliament is not "serious".

Italy has summoned the Austrian ambassador after Vienna announced it was ready to deploy troops to block immigrants crossing its southern border.  Austrian Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil told the Kronen Zeitung newspaper that four Pandur armored personnel carriers had been sent to the Tyrol region and 750 troops were on standby.  Austria's somewhat moderate government may be trying to appear "tough" as October elections approach, and the ultra-far right xenophobic and ironically-named "Freedom" party attempts to make inroads.  Both countries are members of the Schengen Zone with guarantees freedom of movement in Europe.

Peter Sagan has been disqualified from the Tour de France for aggressively elbowing fellow cycling Mark Cavendish, causing the other man to crash hard.  At first, Sagan was docked 30 seconds and 80 points, but the jury took extreme action after reviewing video of the incident.  "He endangered multiple riders, Mark Cavendish and others who were implicated in the crash, in the final meters of the sprint," said the race jury President Philippe Marien.  Sagan says he apologized, but claims he didn't know Cavendish was so close.  Cavendish was treated at the scene and allowed to finish the leg.