Please note that due to the holiday, our flagship news program, Mosaic, will be on hiatus next week, July 6-10. It will return on Monday, July 13.

For added perspective, you can follow the intrepid travels of Mosaic Producer Jamal Dajani on Twitter: @jamaldajani. Amid his European excursion he will be travelling to Paris investigate the controversy surrounding the impending French burqa ban.

There is also a new episode of Mosaic Intelligence Report this week, concerning the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq: