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Fires are still burning at the site of the gigantic explosions at Tianjin, China.  Investigators in full chemical protection suits are searching for clues as to the cause of explosions.  But more immediately, people around the Binhai industrial district are complaining about a pungent odor, and irritation to their lungs and noses.  Favorable winds have been blowing most of the smoke out to the sea.  But people are very afraid because of reports that tons of dangerous chemicals may still be at the blast site.

US and Iraqi experts were reportedly on the way to the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Iraq.  Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State suffered breathing difficulties after an attack near the city of Irbil earlier this month.  Some US officials believe its possible IS could have obtained Mustard Gas in Syria, even though the Assad regime claimed to have gotten rid of all of its chemical weapons. 

Greece's parliament will soon vote on the country's third bailout from the European creditors.  But after a debate that raged all through the night, the ruling Syriza party is showing signs of splitting.  The party's top eurosceptic calling for a nationwide anti-austerity movement to break off from Syriza, and the party's youth wing calling for an exit from the European Union.  Germany is also suspicious of the deal.  But Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is confident he will cobble together enough votes to pass it.

John Kerry on Friday will be the first US Secretary of State since 1945 to visit Cuba.  He will raise the American Flag at the new US Embassy, located in the same building that became the US special interests office in Havana after the Cuban Revolution in 1959.  Although the two sides are vowing to continue working together to try and improve relations, former leader Fidel Castro wrote a piece for the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party Granma, in which he makes no mention of the embassy, and says the US owes Cuba hundreds of millions of dollars because of the trade embargo.  Because Fidel has got to be Fidel.

At 6:00 PM Tokyo Time, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will deliver his address marking the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War II.  It will be watched very carefully by China and South Korea, which both suffered terribly at the hands of Imperial Japanese troops during the brutal occupation.  They want Abe to stick closely to or even go beyond the 1995 Murayama Statement that offered a "heart felt apology" to Japan's "colonial rule and aggression".  Abe will also be under pressure from his fellow nationalists who believe that Japan has apologized enough for the war.