Globe Trot: Devastating explosion in Turkey ahead of elections

TURKEY: An explosion has further rattled Diyarbakir, a city in eastern Turkey that’s largely Kurdish and was once in the heartland of the region’s Armenian and Christian communities. The city has been in turmoil with protests over upcoming parliamentary elections on Sunday that could prove pivotal to the future of Turkey. If the Kurdish parties headquartered in Diyarbakir win enough of the vote, they could check the executive power grab underway by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

CHINA has more online gamers than the United States has people, and breaking internet addiction looks a lot like going to boot camp.

IRAQ: Tariq Aziz, the long-standing spokesman for Saddam Hussein, has died of a heart attack in an Iraqi hospital. He was sentenced to death by the Iraqi Supreme Court in 2010 but never executed. Aziz was born Mikhail Yuhanna into a Christian family in Tel Kaif, one of the towns of Nineveh Plain now emptied by ISIS.

LONG READ: The evolution of the Clinton Foundation helps us understand not only its striking global reach, but also how Hillary Clinton just could win the presidency without winning over most American voters. According to The Washington Post:

“At its heart, the Clinton Foundation is an ingenious machine that can turn something intangible — the Clintons’ global goodwill — into something tangible: money.”