Globe Trot: A 9/11 dilemma for President Obama

9/11: President Obama will mark the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon, while Hillary Clinton plans to visit Ground Zero in New York. Obama faces a dilemma over 9/11 legislation the House passed this morning. Both parties support the legislation, which would allow 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts, but the White House has indicated the president will veto it.

NORTH KOREA conducted a nuclear test that at first registered like an earthquake—a 5.3-magnitude one—just 48 hours after the UN Security Council condemned the Communist regime for a ballistic missile launch. The blast was North Korea’s fifth nuclear explosion and most powerful.

RUSSIA: Donald Trump is in hot water over his embrace of Vladimir Putin, but Peter Hitchens (journalist brother of Christopher) argues that it’s actually time to get over the Cold War.

ISIS is killing us because we are not Muslims, says author and speaker Nabeel Qureshi, citing the August issue of the ISIS magazine Dabiq, dedicated to targeting Christians and Western secularists. I’ve been recommending Qureshi’s books for a while, and now the Muslim convert to Christianity has Stage 4 stomach cancer, which he discusses in a YouTube video.

COLOMBIA: FARC rebels are scheduled to turn child soldiers over to the care of UNICEF next week, part of the historic peace agreement scheduled to be signed on Sept. 26.

ETHIOPIA: This lion rescue is amazing, and apparently true.

I’M READING the Summer issue of Providence Magazine, which includes a “Christian Declaration on American Foreign Policy” and an essay on renewing American global engagement, plus an encouraging and thorough review of my book They Say We Are Infidels.