News of the Day From Around the World, Aug. 2

1 Mosque financing: A new foundation will be created to help finance mosques in France and keep out radical benefactors, the head of the French Muslim Council said Monday.

Anouar Kbibech proposed the foundation would be used to fund the construction and running of mosques and would be financed by fees paid by businesses in the halal food sector.

The debate about the financing of mosques in France was revived by last week’s slaying of an elderly priest in a Normandy church by two Islamic extremists.

China released a prominent human rights lawyer on bail amid protests Monday outside a court in Tianjin, where supporters of other jailed lawyers and activists condemned the secrecy surrounding the government’s yearlong campaign against legal activism.

The release of Wang Yu, who was detained last July, coincided with videos of an alleged confession by Wang in which she renounced her legal work and said “foreign forces” were using her law firm to discredit the Chinese government.

The workers were mostly employed by Saudi construction companies and were laid off amid a slowdown in the industry caused by low global oil prices.

The uprising was the largest act of resistance by any nation under the German occupation during World War II, and the heroism of the insurgents remains a defining element in Polish national identity.