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Here’s what Angela Merkel has waiting for her when she visits Greece on Tuesday:

Apparently, there will be 7,000 police on guard for the visit.

We’re getting a little more information about the drone incursion into Israeli territory.  It was a very substantial incursion if the flight path from west to east is accurate, and if so, it flew over several Israeli settlements.  On the one hand, shooting it down was a victory for the Israeli air force; but the extended flight is a defeat for Israeli radar.  We still don’t know the payload the drone carried, but there is some suspicion that the drone was programmed to fly over the Israeli nuclear weapons site at Dimona.  The Israelis have responded with flyovers in Lebanese territory which suggests that the Israelis suspect that Hezbollah was involved.

There has been persistent violence in Nigeria over the last few months as adherents of the group “Boko Haram” (“western education is sacrilegious”) have stepped up attacks in the northern parts of the country.  The tension between the Muslim north and the Christian south of Nigeria is long-standing and ever simmering.  But the recent escalation of violence raises worries about the integrity of the state as a whole.