If you’re feeling as worn-down as we are this morning at the near-midpoint of Ramadan, take heart that there are only four stories the outside world is talking about this morning, and they’re all big:

1- All things Qatar, from the news that Egypt, Saudi and the UAE are now making clear (behind the scenes) their list of demands for normalization to the lunatic in Turkey deciding it would be a good idea to send troops.

2- Daesh claimed responsibility for two simultaneous attacks in Tehran yesterday. The terror attacks are believed to have been the group’s first in Iran, Bloomberg reports. Tehran is blaming Riyadh for the attacks on Iran’s parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which killed 12. Reuters has solid coverage and the New York Times has visual extras on how the attacks unfolded. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir denied the accusations.

3- America will grind to a halt this morning and flip on TVs / open streams when former FBI Director James Comey testifies before Congress at 10am Eastern (4pm CLT) about “a wide-ranging effort by President Trump to influence the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the election.” The testimony will be live streamed on the New York Times website. Get your Comey fix now from the Times or from Politico. The testimony is already being mentioned in the same breath as Iran-Contra and Anita Hill, and Politico has a look at other dramatic moments on the Hill including Watergate and the Church Committee.

4- The UK heads to the polls this morning in a snap election called by Prime Minister Theresa May as she sought a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit terms. FiveThirtyEight marshals a lot of mumbo-jumbo to suggest anything could happen, while the Independent is slightly inclined to give it to May’s conservatives. Both pieces are great if you’re politics junkies.

The antidote to all of this politics: A discovery in the Arab world has re-written what weknow about the origins of Homo sapiens. A cache of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains have been found in Morocco, and they’re about 100k years older than the what were, until now, the oldest-known remains. “We did not evolve from a single ‘cradle of mankind’ somewhere in East Africa,” said the leader of two studies of the fossils published yesterday in Nature. “We evolved on the African continent.” NPR has great coverage.

The US is still considering expanding its ban on in-cabin electronics. The country’s homeland security boss was found mumbling about the topic on the Hill yesterday. Up to 71 unspecified airports could be affected, Bloomberg reports.