Six In The Morning Friday July 22

US election: Donald Trump promises a 'safer' America

Donald Trump has vowed to tackle multiple threats facing the US, in his speech in Cleveland, Ohio accepting the Republican presidential nomination.

"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he told the party convention.

The businessman promised his presidency would usher in a new era putting America and ordinary people first.

Mr Trump's nomination has been clouded by the refusal of major party figures like Senator Ted Cruz to endorse him.

Mr Cruz, who was his bitter rival during the primary contests, was booed off the stage by Trump supporters.

Other Trump opponents such as members of the Bush family stayed away from the convention altogether.

'Traitor!': The dangers of wearing Nike shoes in China

Team Observers

 Is wearing Nike sneakers tantamount to treason in China? A man was violently attacked last week in the subway in Dalian, in the country's northwest, for having the famous Swoosh on his shoes. This was not some random incident: anti-American acts are multiplying around China, against a backdrop of diplomatic tensions with the Philippine government, which is backed by the United States.

In a video taken by another passenger, one man (in red) yells at another man (in white) who is wearing Nikes, and pushes him around. "Traitor!" he says, accusing him of being a "spy" and a "sell-out," too. A woman tries to calm things, in vain. The two men begin hitting one another and wrestling, and knock over another passenger. According to the website Shanghaiist, the incident took place in Dalian, a city in Liaoning province.

The video was posted to Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site, and YouTube on July 13, the day after a decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) that was unfavourable for the Chinese. The international organisation, located in the Hague (The Netherlands), is notably tasked with resolving disagreements between sovereign states.

Mexican group decapitate musician, shoot wife and child

Gunmen in Mexico have beheaded a musician and killed his wife and child, possibly linked to a dispute between rival gangs. The multiple murder was the second in less than a week in Oaxaca state.

An armed group was said to have entered the family's home, in the city of Juchitan, Oaxaca state, at about 2 a.m. local time on Thursday.

A police statement said the gunmen decapitated 30-year-old Victor Sanchez, a singer with the tropical band Sensacion Caribu, and gunned down his wife and 11-year-old son.

The Oaxaca state prosecutor's office said a sign left at the scene suggested the killings were connected to a dispute between rival gangs. The office also said shots had been fired at the family home months earlier, with a note threatening the musician with death.

Bangladesh: Hidden fault could trigger major quake

By Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist

Updated 0349 GMT (1149 HKT) July 22, 2016

The Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers are critically important, life-giving rivers for hundreds of millions of people living in India and Bangladesh. But the millions of tons of sediment that pile up in the delta region of these rivers, a large portion of Bangladesh, could be hiding the biggest natural disaster the region has ever seen.

According to recently released research from a team of scientists led by Dr. Michael Steckler from Columbia University, buried under miles of sediment lies a locked and loaded megathrust fault that could unleash an earthquake up to 9.0 magnitude in one of the most densely populated regions of the world.

Concerns over Erdoğan power grab replace anti-coup unity in Turkey

In a late-night decree, Erdoğan declares a three-month state of emergency, fueling criticism he is using the failed coup to enhance his own substantial powers.

By Scott Peterson, Staff writer

ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Turkey’s rare national unity in the face of last week’s failed military coup is eroding amid concerns President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has seized the opportunity to mount a de facto coup of his own.

Late Wednesday night, Mr. Erdoğan declared a three-month state of emergency, calling it a necessary measure for officials to swiftly cleanse the armed forces of “viruses.” 

He vowed the measure would not endanger democracy, but instead remove a threat to it and “to the rule of law and to the rights and freedoms of the citizens in our country.”

Donald Trump doesn’t want to make America great. He wants to make it afraid.

Updated by Ezra Klein 

Donald Trump is not a candidate the American people would turn to in normal times. He’s too inexperienced, too eccentric, too volatile, too risky. Voting Trump is burning down the house to collect the insurance money — you don’t do it unless things are really, really bad.

Here is Trump’s problem: Things are not really, really bad. In fact, things are doing much better than when President Obama came into office.

Unemployment is 4.9 percent nationally — a number Trump knows is far from a crisis, because it’s lower than the unemployment rate Mike Pence is presiding over in Indiana, and Trump keeps bragging about his running mate’s economic record. The deficit has gone down in recent years, and the stock market has gone up. The end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars mean fewer Americans are dying abroad. A plurality approve of the job Obama is doing.