The Daily Planet: Iraq’s deadly day, stolen food aid in Somalia

The Envoy

• Death toll climbs to 89 in attacks that marked the deadliest day in Iraq this year. (New York Times)

• The true cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan is anyone's guess. (Nancy Youssef/McClatchy)

• Virtually everybody on the ground is to blame for stolen food aid in Somalia. (NPR)

• Oldest living survivor of Bataan death march, Albert Doc Brown, dies at 105. (USA Today)

• More than 80 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are visiting Israel and the West Bank over the August recess. (New York Times)

• Spanish diplomat Bernadino Leon, on trip to Syria, will talk to embattled leader Bashar Assad about asylum. (Piers Schofield/BBC)

• The cunning logic of the Cuban embassy's plan to open a Hemingway bar. (Steve Clemons/The Atlantic)

• Drones in the future may be surprisingly small. (Economist)