Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, sent a letter to Trump with declaring, that he has “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.” The letter questions his knowledge of and belief in the Constitution and characterized him with words: “demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding” of the nation’s “vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances and the democratic values” on which American policy should be based. 

Irom Chanu Sharmila decided to end her hunger strike that lasted for the past 16 years. Sharmila also expressed her will to join Indian politics. She is being compared to such resistance figures as Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. To some she is also known as the Indian Iron lady. Sharmila has been forced fed through a nasal tube since 2000. This was after a bloody attack, where 10 were killed, in a conflict-torn region of India –the Malom massacre, outside Imphal –by government controlled paramilitary forces.

The turmoil began several spectators were expelled from Olympic arenas for displaying anti-government banners and T-shirts. Judge Joao Augusto Carneiro Araujo made the ruling after a request by the Ministerio Publico do Brasil, an independent body defending the public interest. They argued that the International Olympic Committee, the Brazilian government and the Rio organizing committee had overstepped their authority when they banned peaceful political protests from Olympic venues.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi told today that it had been a mistake to personalize a referendum, due to be held later this year, in which he originally promised to submit if he died to convince voters to back the demand for constitutional change. Political uncertainty linked to the vote on proposals Renzi says will bring stability after 70 years of revolving-door government has added to concerns about fragility in the euro zone’s third-biggest economy.“I made a mistake personalizing it too much,” Renzi told party supporters at an event in Modena, northern Italy. “This is not one person’s reform; this is the reform Italy needs.”

Nearly 100 people were killed during weekend protests in two Ethiopian cities: Oromia and Amhara. Participants of several demonstrations organized throughout the country had some altercations with national police and security forces. Amnesty International claims that the most tragic incidents happened Bahir Dar. At least 30 people died there on Sunday. Since a few months there has been an unprecedented wave of protests in Ethiopia which had its crisis peak on the weekend. Organisation noted that security forces fired live bullets at peaceful protesters.

The first major victory of the opposition from time Russia engaged in the Syrian conflict is completed on Friday, the battle for the eastern part of Aleppo - Syria's largest city. The battle turned out to be a total defeat of the forces of the regime. It lasted for the last 12 months, the period of military domination of the loyalist forces in Syria. Battle of eastern Aleppo also showed the unique ability of the opposition to cooperate: conducted by about thirty opposition groups, some of which are related to jihadist movement. The most important of them - Al-Nusra Front before starting the operation broke off ties with Al-Qaeda and changed its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.