--- title: July 31st, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 5 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/4866147/july-31st-2017-vol-190-no-5-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/ og:title: July 31st, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 5 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/4866147/july-31st-2017-vol-190-no-5-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71824689195dbc1b/6988d663196cf4417f041194/hk_g1500_dunkirk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1875 og:image:height: 1055 og:image:alt: Time International Magazine 0731 Dunkirk cover og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: July 31st, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 5 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71824689195dbc1b/6988d663196cf4417f041194/hk_g1500_dunkirk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # July 31, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 5July 31, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 5  Issue name July 31st, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 5 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific Issue date July 31, 2017 Location Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific Related categories [Arts](/vault/subject/arts/) [Movies](/vault/subject/movies/) [Military](/vault/subject/military/) [World War II](/vault/subject/world-war-ii/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.WorldOthers ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Ambitious and Harrowing, Christopher Nolan’s _Dunkirk_ Is a Masterpiece I have not always enjoyed his previous films. Why Dunkirk is so different [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Christopher Nolan: _Dunkirk_ Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento Director Christopher Nolan discusses his new film Dunkirk, which is already being hailed as one of the most important war movies ever made [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _Landline_ Is a Message From the Lost World of the 1990s [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Amazon Tries to Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald's Unfinished Novel [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Bateman's Stab at High Drama [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Spider-Man, Ranked The latest one is a thrill--and a hit. But how does it stack up against the rest? [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Her Food, Her Self ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Steve Ballmer: 5 Facts About the U.S. Government That Blew My Mind And could help improve the conversations we have about how the country should be ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Inside the Secret Plan to Stop Vladimir Putin’s U.S. Election Plot The White House was prepared to call out the military to guard the vote from a Russian hack ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### Why There Is Crying In Baseball, and Tennis, and Golf, and Soccer ... ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### The GOP Faces a New Crossroads [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Why the Death of Malls Is About More Than Shopping As America's malls close down, more than stores are vanishing along with them [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Remembering America's 'Angel of Death Row' [U.S.](/section/us/) ### 8 Questions With Al Gore ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Liu Xiaobo, China's Most Prominent Political Prisoner, Dies at 61 He was jailed in 2009 for calling for multiparty democracy [World](/section/world/) ### Turkey's 'Iron Lady' Meral Aksener Is Getting Ready to Challenge Erdogan Meral Aksener rose to prominence as a critic of the Turkish President. Now, she is preparing to take him on at the ballot box [World](/section/world/) ### Acid Attacks Have Become a Gruesome Criminal Trend in the U.K. On Thursday night, five people across London were attacked within the space of 90 minutes [World](/section/world/) ### The Low-Caste Farmer's Son Taking High Office In India [World](/section/world/) ### Winnie the Pooh and Homer Too [World](/section/world/) ### Can Tunisia Remain a Beacon of Democracy for the Arab World? [World](/section/world/) ### For the Record (20 Jul 2017) [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (20 Jul 2017) [World](/section/world/) ### What You Said About ... 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