A Paris 'Beach Party' Turns Into A Middle East Protest Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News A Paris 'Beach Party' Turns Into A Middle East Protest Parisians create an urban beach on the banks of the Seine every summer to conjure seashores around the world. This year's fantasy beach, Tel Aviv, sparked protests and a rival "Gaza" beach. Read this story China Evacuates Tianjin Blast Site As Sodium Cyanide Found Chinese authorities are clearing the area around a fire and explosions in Tianjin over fears of sodium cyanide poisoning from Wednesday's massive explosion that has killed more than 100. Read this story Democrat Vows To Block Key Nomination Over Asia Trade Deal Secrecy Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown gave U.S. trade officials until Friday to allow staffers full access to the trade deal draft. The deadline passed, and now he is threatening to hold up an Obama nominee. Read this story U.S. Officials Say Self-Proclaimed Islamic State Leader Raped American Hostage Mueller's family says officials have told them that she was taken as a "wife" by the leader of ISIS. Mueller's death was reported in February. The circumstances have not been confirmed by the U.S. Read this story With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem For decades, we have known of only 14 convex pentagons that can do something called "tiling the plane." Now there is a 15th shape, but mathematicians are still far from knowing exactly how many exist. Read this story more news stories

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