The roundup of news events and stories in the HCN article directly beneath and before this one had too many events to be just roundups, so an outline is provided here in as few words as possible.

Starting from the U.S. east coast and working for each international region from that point, will be inserted into this news story roundup conforming closely to outline below in the upcoming hours.

USA

• Washington DC

...It seems the White House and Lafayette Park across from the White House have become inordinately predated upon for locations to hold a protesting scene or culminate protests.  This upcoming Saturday July 27, 2013 alone, ... at least 2 protests of different causes..., according to the Washington Peace Center website; this before not leaving out other sources. 

For the literal geographic amount of space, the climatic conditions which might be searing heat in a place known for extreme high humidity this time of year, in combination with tourists and traffic conditions, the stage is set for near to chaotic conditions between the hours of 11am and 1pm in the afternoon on Saturday.

• "White House skips Senate’s first Gitmo hearing in 5 years

• "Senate debates Guantánamo in first hearing on closing prison since 2009

Associated Press in Washington

• "Guantánamo detainee relatives address US senators

• "...Protesters Demand Closure of Guantanamo Prison, One Jumps Fence [of White House on 6  26,  2013], article found at http://www.popularresistance.org/photo-essay-protesters-demand-closure-of-guantanamo-priso/

In other protests in Washington DC which are scheduled to climax tomorrow July 26, 2013: 

• "Seven Day Walk from Camp David to DC against Climate Change

Date: Friday, July 19, 2013 - 12:00pm - Friday, July 26, 2013 - 12:00pm

Location : DC

Maryland

Location: Start at Camp David, with options to join the march at any point along the way (see below)

Event Details: From July 19-26th, grandparents, parents, young people and children will walk from Camp David to Washington.

Other protests planned in July 2013, according to the Washington Peace Center, content cut-copied-pasted from their website:

• "White House Vigil to Support the Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

Location: White House-North side on Pennsylvania Ave.

• "Marching Forward By Looking Back" Conference on Civil Rights

Date: Saturday, July 27, 2013 - 12:00am - Sunday, July 28, 2013 - 11:00pm

Location: Howard Univeristy [University]

source: http://washingtonpeacecenter.net/node/10122

• "March for Our Grandchildren: Summer Heat Rally 

Date: Saturday, July 27, 2013 - 10:00am - 2:00pm

Location: March starts at Malcolm X Park on 16th St, ...

source: http://washingtonpeacecenter.net/node/10292

• "Rally for Peace in Korea

Date: Saturday, July 27, 2013 - 11:00am

source: http://washingtonpeacecenter.net/node/10258

Mid-Atlantic

USA generally

• The City of Detroit confronts financial challenges has made many financial news stories.  ...'Rijs', transliterated.  'Rijs' is essentially equivocated to 'the workings of Satan', according to Arab text.  Gambling and casinos the panacea for the financial problems of a city respectively needs scrutiny.

• Norway, Maine:

Read more: http://www.wmtw.com/news/maine/central/fire-destroys-norway-lake-camp/-/8791976/21156202/-/4jjagxz/-/index.html#ixzz2a4rYQWCu

Wildfire updates:

• "New wildfire ... near Toppenish [and Goldendale, Washington State]

By Associated Press Published: Jul 25, 2013 at 8:26 AM PDT"

• In Idaho, there is the Thunder City Fire

• "July 25, 2013 - The Aspen Fire was discovered on Tuesday, July 23 burning on the Sierra National Forest- High Sierra Ranger District... has burned approximately 2,000 acres and remains active."

South/Central America

• Brazil:

"Small bomb found at Brazil shrine Pope Francis was due to visit

A home-made bomb has been found at a Catholic shrine in Brazil which Pope Francis will visit this week.

12:00AM BST 23 Jul 2013

"It was a homemade device with little potential to cause fatalities," the military said in a statement."

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/10196473/Small-bomb-found-at-Brazil-shrine-Pope-Francis-was-due-to-visit.html

• "Mexico: Gunmen Attack Federal Police

A wave of attacks on the federal police in Michoacán, one of Mexico’s most violent states, has left at least 24 dead in the past two days, including four officers and 20 gunmen, the authorities said..."

• "15 Colombian soldiers killed in deadly ambush by Farc rebels

AFP

11:54PM BST 21 Jul 2013

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/10194296/15-Colombian-soldiers-killed-in-deadly-ambush-by-Farc-rebels.html

• Venezuela the country, more specifically, in the state of Bolivar:

"8 killed at graduation party

13:40 Mon Jul 22 2013

AAP

source: http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8693503/8-killed-at-graduation-party

"The main victims of human trafficking in Peru are women and minors of age who are forced to... under threats of violence and death or to perform forced labor in factories, fields or mines. Amongst other forms of exploitation.they are also recruited to beg for money in the streets, to transport drugs or to sell their organs..."
source: http://www.chsalternativo.org/contenido.php?men=L&pad=32&hij=37&shi=42&pla=2&sal=2&id=I

"In 2006, the UN... reported that there are 500,000 child victims of ... and violence in the country. Because 60 percent of Peru’s youth live in poverty, children are especially vulnerable..."
source: http://www.ethicaltraveler.org/campaigns/campaign-against-human-trafficking-in-perus-sex-tourism-industry/

Canada

• Quebec
  

Although the initial tragedy occurred about 2 weeks ago--

a story-slideshow for reading or viewing:

"A Train Wreck’s Aftermath

More than two weeks have passed since a runaway train of oil tank cars, “the ghost train” as it is now known, derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, incinerating much of the community’s downtown and leaving at least 42 of its 6,000 residents dead. Here, wreckage inside the “red zone.”

source: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/07/24/world/americas/20130724QUEBEC.html?ref=americas&_r=0

• "Railway Sued in Chicago Over Quebec Runaway Train Killing 47

July 24, 2013

source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-07-23/railway-sued-in-chicago-over-quebec-oil-tank-crash-killing-47

West Africa; Central Africa; other Africa if necessary

• Sudan

"Sudan Attacks after Machar’s Falied Diplomatic Mission
By Defense & Foreign Affairs | Mon, 08 July 2013 22:10

With input from Juba, Khartoum, and London resources. South Sudan Vice-President Riek Machar has begun escalating his attacks against Pres. Salva Kiir in order to divert attention from the total failure of his latest diplomatic mission to Khartoum to restore and sustain oil exports...

source: http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Sudan-Attacks-after-Machars-Falied-Diplomatic-Mission.html

• South Africa

5 armed robbers attack farmstall
July 24 2013 at 02:35pm

Cape Town - An ATM at a popular Cape Winelands farmstall outside Stellenbosch was blasted apart in an attack by armed robbers on Wednesday morning.

source: ATM BLOWN UP STELLENBOSCH RURAL <http://www.southafricannews.info/Article.php?ID=426872&>
Date Posted: Thursday 25-Jul-2013

Middle East /Arab Peninsula

• "Violence feared as Egypt braces for rival protests

Thursday Jul 25, 2013

CAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi and the army that toppled him prepared for rival protests on Friday as the prime minister warned of violence...

Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on Egyptians to take to the streets to show their support for action against "violence and terrorism". Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, organizing its own marches on Friday against Sisi, fears the army appeal is a harbinger of a wider crackdown.

Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawy, head of the interim cabinet, said there were escalating attacks on government institutions by increasingly well-armed protesters.

"The presence of weapons, intimidation, fear - this causes concern, especially when there are calls for many to come out tomorrow from different sides," he told a news conference..."

http://www.newsdaily.com/world/dceaee35ae3c5dde3e95ca0480a48cef/violence-feared-as-egypt-braces-for-rival-protests

• Turkey 

Deputy PM Arinc says country will not tolerate the creation of a "de facto" Syrian Kurdish entity on its borders.

• Angry Tunisians take to the streets after murder of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi

Killing could derail fragile democracy in birthplace of the Arab Spring
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/angry-tunisians-take-to-the-streets-after-murder-of-opposition-leader-mohamed-brahmi-8732632.html

• Iraq

Europe west

• "Spanish train crash: 78 killed and 130 injured in derailment

Train jumps tracks on 'difficult curve' on approach to north-western city of Santiago de Compostela

    The Guardian, Wednesday 24 July 2013         

...northern Spanish region of Galicia after 78 people died in a train crash on Wednesday....

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/spain-train-crash-dead

Asia region including China

• China

"Killing Highlights Concerns Over China’s One-Child Policy
Published: July 25, 2013

HONG KONG — A man with a knife killed two government officials at a family planning bureau and injured four other people, the Chinese state news media reported on Wednesday, in an episode that drew wide attention in China because of continuing controversy over the country’s one-child policy.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/world/asia/killing-highlights-concerns-over-chinas-one-child-policy.html?ref=asia


"Quake areas still short of supplies
Updated: 2013-07-26 00:13
By Mu Qian and Zhao Lei (China Daily)
...magnitude-6.6 quake that hit Gansu province on Monday are still facing a shortage of relief supplies, a charity coordinator said on Thursday...

By Thursday, 95 people had been confirmed killed by the quake, which jolted the border of Minxian and Zhangxian counties. More than 1,400 people were injured, and nearly 300,000 lost their homes.

In Dacaotan, a township in Zhangxian county, at least 4,000 residents, or a third of the township's population, are living in 630 tents..."
source: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-07/26/content_16832938.htm

There might have been more than one earthquake that hit the region earlier this week

• Singapore

"Singapore to widen its RMB liquidity pool
Updated: 2013-07-19 01:09

"The critical factors that will determine how well Singapore develops as an RMB hub are liquidity and a range of hedging products," said Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the central bank and financial regulatory authority.

Singapore holds 100 billion yuan ($16.3 billion) in renminbi deposits and Menon expects the total to rise.

"The deposits will grow at a stronger pace over time, facilitated by the launch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's Singapore RMB clearing facilities in May...

source: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-07/19/content_16796840.htm

Europe east, including Russia

• "Russian Railways injects $18.7 Billion in Far Eastern infrastructure

The document encompasses the reconstruction of the railroad infrastructure in the district, particularly the construction of a bridge to Sakhalin island, the modernization of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, the reconstruction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the connection of the Trans-Korean Main Line to the network of Russian railroads."

source: http://www.bsr-russia.com/en/transport/item/4115-russian-railways-injects-$187-billion-in-far-eastern-infrastructure.html

Asia any other, such as India

• India

Principal of Indian School That Served Tainted Lunch Is Arrested
Published: July 24, 2013

NEW DELHI — Nine days after she disappeared, the principal of a school in eastern India where 23 children died after eating a lunch tainted with pesticide was arrested Wednesday by the police.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/world/asia/principal-in-india-tainted-lunch-deaths-arrested.html?ref=asia&_r=0