 | | Greek banks reopened today after being shut for three weeks. Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Iran nuclear deal in focus. |
| The 60-day congressional review period for last week's agreement formally begins today, and the U.N. Security Council is likely to vote this morning on a resolution to endorse it and end targeted sanctions on Iran. |
| Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter is traveling in the Mideast this week to talk with leaders worried about the deal. He's in Israel today. |
| • Cuba's flag rises in Washington. |
| A formal ceremony today in Washington ends 54 years without diplomatic representation between the U.S. and Cuba, as Havana officially reopens its embassy there. |
| The U.S. Mission in Havana is also upgraded today to an embassy, but Secretary of State John Kerry will do the honors there later this summer. |
| And Americans who hold claims against Cuba for seized property hope the renewed ties mean that they will be compensated. |
| • Nigeria's challenge. |
| Nigeria's leader, in a visit to the White House today, will ask President Obama for more military aid to fight the Boko Haram terrorist group that has killed thousands of Nigerians and kidnapped many more. |
| Before his trip, he laid off many officials for corruption, including at the state oil company, and fired the entire top tier of the military for incompetence. |
| • Targeting ISIS. |
| Britain's prime minister will announce today how he hopes to escalate his nation's role in fighting the Islamic State militant group. |
| In a speech, he'll also lay out a five-year plan to confront radicalism in Britain. |
| • FIFA's future. |
| A special executive committee of soccer's governing body meets in Zurich today to set a date to elect a president to replace Sepp Blatter, who has led the organization for 17 years. |
| Members of FIFA's board were indicted in the U.S. in May on corruption charges. One of them was arraigned on Saturday in New York. |
| • Ex-leader on trial for murder. |
| The former president of Chad, Hissène Habré, goes on trial today at an international court in Dakar, Senegal. It's the first time one African country has prosecuted the former leader of another. |
| He is charged with murder and torture. A commission concluded in 1992, two years after he was overthrown, that more than 40,000 perceived enemies of the state were killed during his eight-year rule. |
| MARKETS |
| • Greek banks reopened their branches across the country today after a three-week shutdown, and President François Hollande of France said the crisis in Greece demonstrated the need for a eurozone government. |
| • Microsoft won't charge customers to upgrade computers to Windows 10, a shift that shows how power dynamics in the tech industry have changed. |
| • M City, a 23-acre mini-metropolis in Michigan, where automakers can test autonomous cars to prepare for the driverless future, opens today. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are trending higher. European shares are up, and Asian indexes closed higher. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • A sailor wounded in the attack in Chattanooga, Tenn., died from his injuries. The family of the suspect offered condolences to the five victims' families. |
| • Donald J. Trump said he was not sorry for saying that Senator John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, was "not a war hero." |
| • A deposition by Bill Cosby revealed a calculated pursuit of young women. |
| • The Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party appeared at dueling rallies outside the South Carolina State House. |
| • Islamic State militants said they were responsible for a bombing in Iraq that killed 100. The group also appears to have rudimentary chemical warfare shells. |
| • A Mitsubishi executive apologized to a U.S. prisoner of war for using American P.O.W.s for forced labor during World War II. |
| • A Major League Baseball game was rained out in Anaheim, Calif., for the first time in 20 years. |
| • An Australian surfer escaped two sharks during a major competition in South Africa. |
| • Marvel's "Ant-Man" was the box office winner. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "True Detective," "Masters of Sex" and "Hannibal." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Amateur rises to the top. |
| Atop the British Open leader board: Paul Dunne, a 22-year-old Irish amateur, Louis Oosthuizen, the 2010 champion, and Jason Day. Jordan Spieth remains in contention. |
| Weather delays have forced a Monday finish, only the second in the British Open's 155-year history (ESPN). |
| • A new supercity. |
| Chinese officials are developing a megalopolis, Jing-Jin-Ji, that is to cover ground the size of Kansas and have a population of more than 130 million people, about six times larger than the New York metropolitan area. |
| • Luxury for nonhuman travelers. |
| The ARK at JFK is a $48 million shelter that is set to open next year at Kennedy Airport in New York to handle the more than 70,000 animals flying in and out every year. |
| Some of the extravagances: Dogs can watch flat-screen TVs, and penguins will have a special space giving them mating privacy. |
BACK STORY
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| Nearly all of the world's diamonds came from southern India until the 18th and 19th centuries, and a selection of them is on display until this weekend at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
| One that is not there is the Koh-i-Noor, at more than 105 carats one of the largest diamonds in history — even after being cut down to increase its luster. |
| You can find the Koh-i-Noor under guard in the Tower of London. It's the main ornament in the crown of Queen Elizabeth. |
| It most likely got its name, which means "Mountain of Light" in Persian, from the Persian general who seized it when he conquered Delhi in 1739. After he was assassinated, it fell into the hands of one of his generals. |
| One of that general's direct descendants, the king of Afghanistan, inherited it at the beginning of the 19th century. If it had stayed in that family, it might have gone to a later descendant, former President Hamid Karzai. |
| Instead, the Afghan king was overthrown, and the stone ended up with an Indian maharajah. |
| British forces took the diamond when they conquered his Sikh Empire in 1849 and gave it to Queen Victoria a year later. |
| It is literally priceless, and we don't expect it to ever change hands again. |
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