Europe gives Greece a few more days to fix everything

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NEED TO KNOW:

European leaders have given Greece until Sunday to reach an agreement that would ease its debt crisis and apparently stave off economic ruin for much of Europe. So let's talk about something else.

A year ago today, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge against Hamas militants. It was a bombing campaign that turned into a ground invasion. The fighting killed more than 2,000 Palestinians in seven weeks. Most of those people were civilians, according to the United Nations. More than 500 of them were children. Seven civilians and 66 Israeli soldiers were killed in Israel.

A year later, Gaza remains devastated. While international donors pledged billions in aid to help it rebuild and recover, only a fraction of that has actually been spent. Almost 2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, which is essentially a large, open-air prison. Land, air and sea routes are all mostly sealed by Israel and Egypt. A UN envoy in May said Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip were “desperate and angry."

The trauma of all this can't be understated, especially for Gaza's children. At the start of the academic year, schools across Gaza spent the first few weeks providing emotional support to students who had endured 51 days of bombing. They had to learn to cope with all the empty desks in their classrooms, writes GlobalPost Senior Correspondent Laura Dean, who's currently in Gaza.

Save the Children says more than 3,400 children were injured during the war. About 10 percent of them will likely be disabled for the rest of their lives, the organization says. An estimated 1,500 children lost their parents. In some areas children still play atop rubble that hasn’t been cleared. “Our future is gone,” one 14-year-old said.

WANT TO KNOW:

Back to Greece: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has until Sunday to submit a serious plan for reform. If he doesn't, or the plan is not to the liking of his creditors — namely, most of Europe — then all hell will break loose. Greece will go bankrupt. It will have to begin printing its own money. And it will likely leave the euro zone.

This, as you've probably heard, could cause all manner of financial difficulty for Europe and beyond. But, fortunately, the Greek prime minister has a few days to figure it all out. He seems confident he can do so. In a speech mostly lacking the angry rhetoric that has colored this debacle so far, Tsipras said he'd turn the proposal around in just 48 hours. He even added a bit of humility.

"We are determined not to have a clash with Europe but to tackle head on the establishment in our own country and to change the mindset which will take us and the euro zone down," he said to applause. He then criticized European leaders for “terrorizing” the Greek people with threats of “never-ending” austerity. So, you know, the animosity is still there, and it's thick.

Now we wait. Again.

STRANGE BUT TRUE:

The Russian Interior Ministry — which you'd imagine has way more pressing things to do — launched an information campaign on Tuesday advising Russian citizens on the safest ways to take a selfie. 

The campaign includes a hashtag: #safeselfie. The ministry even made an infographic to help guide its citizens. Some of the tips include not taking selfies with wild animals, firearms, or at significant heights.

The advice starts to make sense when you look at the recent string of selfie-induced accidents — some of them deadly. Russian police say that about 100 people have been injured and at least 10 killed since the beginning of the year, all while attempting to take pictures of themselves.