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The White House is throwing more doubt over the deal to take 1,250 refugees from Australia's detention camps on Nauru and Manus Island.  Describing the deal as "dumb", Donald Trump appeared to be confused about the number of people who would go to the US, and suggested that Australia was one of the countries somehow "taking advantage" of the US - even though he claimed to have "a lot of respect for Australia", assuming the idiot could find it on a map.

Oh, and that trainwreck of a phone call between Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull?  Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway suggested that Canberra leaked the contents of the call.  This is despite the story being embarrassing to the PM, despite the story leaking into a US newspaper first, and despite the US newspaper citing "US Officials" as their source.  The alliance is being tested, folks.

The US Treasury Department under Donald Trump has lifted sanctions on selling sensitive electronic equipment to Russia's FSB security service.  Selling the gear to Russia had been banned under executive orders issued by the-US President Barack Obama in April 2015 and December 2016.  Democrats are accusing Trump of of "rewarding" the FSB for tampering with the U.S. elections:  "We just made it easier for the same group to import into Russia the tools they could use to hack us or our allies again," said Rep. Eric Swalwell of the House CIA Committee.

The White House is for some reason defending the disastrous raid in Yemen over the weekend.  As information has trickled out, it's come out that several children including an eight-year old girl with American citizenship was killed, as well as other civilians, and a member of a Navy Seal Team 6.  US military officials claim 14 militants were killed.

Other embarrassing and despot-like garbage from the orange clown:  Instead of offering a solemn address of piety and devotion at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump bragged about his ratings on the TV reality show "The Apprentice", and said people should pray for current host Arnold Schwarzenegger because his ratings are lower (Arnold later offered to switch jobs).  Oh, but he did threaten to scrap a 1950s law protecting the constitutional separation of church and state.  And Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from the prestigious University of California at Berkeley because of a minor disturbance at a protest against a speaker from a neo-fascist website; none of the players were actually official university entities, and it's not even certain the protesters were students.

Italy's leader Paolo Gentiloni says he's reached a deal with Libyan Premier Fayez Serraj to try to stop migrants from leaving in huge numbers for Europe.  They signed a memo of understanding to step up cooperation and to fight migrant trafficking from Libyan shores, and Gentiloni calls it a piece of a larger plan to be discussed at a European Union summit on Malta on Friday.  Last year, at least 5,083 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, according to the International Organization for Migration.

A Japanese court is hearing a lawsuit from a welder who says he got leukemia from working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which suffered a triple meltdown after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  The 42-year old worker helped construct scaffolding for repair work at the No 4 reactor building, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).  His cumulative radiation exposure was 19.78 millisieverts.  In October 2015, the Japanese health ministry ruled that the man's illness was workplace-related and that he was eligible for compensation.

A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin is in a coma with organ failure, two years after suffering the exact same symptoms in a suspected poisoning incident.  Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza works for pro-democracy group Open Russia.  He fell ill hours after uploading a social media post in tribute of his friend Boris Nemtsov, the opposition leader and former deputy prime minister of Russia who was shot dead in front of the Kremlin in February 2015.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is ordering Russia to pay more than 63,000 Euros to Putin critic and opposition politician and Alexei Navalny.  The ECHR said Russia violated Navalny's right to peaceful protest several times since 2012.  Navalny welcomed the award as "excellent", saying Russia's "lying, corrupt and hypocritical justice system" had "got a kicking".  Russia has three months to appeal.

Colombia's ELN rebels released hostage as a good will gesture before advancing peace talks with the government.  62-year old ex-congressman Odin Sanchez had been held by the ELN since he offered to swap places with his ailing brother in April 2016.  Peace talks start in Ecuador next week.