July 5, 2016

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Suicide bombers attack sites in Saudi Arabia, adding to violence in Baghdad, Istanbul, and Dhaka.

Rio de Janeiro police officers stand outside airport with a sign saying “Welcome to Hell.”

Lengthy report on the state and history of Chinese restaurants in small Canadian towns.

Conservative MPs begin to choose the next UK prime minister.

“Leave” campaigner and UKIP leader Farage resigns—an “unpatriotic quitter” just like Boris Johnson.

Wimbledon player threatens to urinate on the court, stages sit-down protest when refused.

Although the referendum result was close nationally, Remain piled up many of its votes in a relatively small number of constituencies.

Related: “The magical thinking of America’s pro-Brexit conservatives.”

Brexit risks becoming “the start of an unravelling of globalization and the prosperity it has created.”

The opposite of Brexit: African Union to launch continent-wide passport for freer travel.

Mass security measures at airports appear to do little to actually protect people.

San Francisco police routinely “disappear” items owned by the city’s homeless population.

Nearly 30,000 people have gone missing from Mexico in the last decade.

Long-awaited drone-death stats released by Obama are just a fraction of what independent monitors have recorded.

Obama relies on private hours alone at night to read, think, watch sports, and play Words With Friends.

Profiles of America’s five deadliest prosecutors, responsible for sending some 440 to death row.

America ranks disquietingly low on the 2016 Social Progress Index.

Elie Wiesel, chronicler of the Holocaust, dies at 88.

Sometimes it seems that ‘the Holocaust’ is a corporation headed by Elie Wiesel. Resistance to Wiesel.

Brief literary history of writing software.

Small town in Italy uses silent fireworks for celebrations to be nicer to its animals.

Related: “The curious case of crabs crawling crazy ’cause of climate change.”