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A Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to illegally shipping machine guns to Australia.  Andy Huebschmann owns Germantown-based Thureon Defense, and faces up to 20 years in Federal prison for sending pistols, assault weapons, and the tools to convert the latter into fully automatic weapons inside of secret panels in a shipping container to fool customs officials.  The recipient was 65-year old Paul Robert Munro of Victoria, who has pleaded guilty to his part in the conspiracy and is serving 15 years in prison.  Munro was able to import at least six of what prosecutors called "mass killing machines" before they were caught.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the goals of the Paris Climate Accord won't cut it.  Speaking in the United Arab Emirates at a preparatory meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit in September, Guterres pointed out that Arctic permafrost is thawing decades earlier than scientists had projected - and even if the Paris goals are met, the world faces a catastrophic 3 C Degree temperature rise by the end of the century.  "It is plain to me that we have no time to lose," Guterres said, "Sadly, it is not yet plain to all the decision makers that run our world."  He called on nations to face the "grave climate emergency" by:  Ending construction of new coal plants by 2020; Cutting greenhouse emissions by 45 percent over the next decade; and replacing fossil fuel-driven economies with solar and wind.

Japanese whaling ships are expected to head out to sea today as the nation defies international criticism of its whaling program, now a full-scale commercial operation after years of hiding behind the pretense of "scientific whaling".  After the International Whaling Commission (IWC) called Tokyo's bluff and said most of the meat brought in from "scientific whaling" was sold commercially, Japan withdrew from the organization.  Unlike years past, most of Japan's whaling activity will take place in the northern hemisphere.  Environmentalists and other critics call the practice cruel, dangerous to fragile whale populations, and obsolete because most Japanese don't or won't eat whale meat.

Sudan's military fired teargas as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators demanded civilian government at what was billed as a "million man march" in the capital Khartoum.  At least five people have been killed, according to the pro-opposition Central Committee of Sudan Doctors, as snipers took aim at civilians and military personnel.  The country has been in crisis since long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir was forced to step down by pro-democracy protests and a rebellious military; but the soldiers didn't get the memo and took control.  The opposition was able to organize this without the internet, which the junta has shut down, and shows the determination of the people just weeks after dozens were killed in an earlier confrontation.

Turkish police fired tear gas on Istanbul's Pride Rally on the 50th anniversary weekend of the Stonewall Uprising.  In 2014, more than 100,000 people came to the city's pride fest, but cops have refused to grant a permit for the past five years.  LGBTQ activists keep saying, "Nah, we're going to have a rally anyway."  Homosexuality has been legal in Turkey for decades, but discrimination is always there and getting worse in the age of autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Donald Trump says he made "history" by doing on Sunday what generations of American presidents have refused to do:  Grant diplomatic legitimacy with a visit to the home field of a dictator who has been accused of executing his enemies by both anti-aircraft gun and pack of hungry dogs.  Trump went to the peace village of Panmunjom on the border of North and South Korea for an hours of hand-shakes and friendly banter with Kim Jong-un, and briefly crossed over to the North Korean side.  "It's just an honor to be with you and it was an honor that you asked me to step over that line," Trump told Kim, "And I was proud to step over that line." 

That's a sentiment not shared by Americans aghast at the chummy display, with memories of Otto Warmbier still in mind.  You will recall that young man from Ohio was jailed for vandalism in North Korea in 2016 and returned a year later with such profound brain damage that he was blind, deaf, babbling incoherently, and unable to move under his own power.  He died hours after arriving back in the US.  Trump bragged about getting "hostages" back home but didn't mention Warmbier.  It is not known if Trump spoke about Australian student Alek Sigley of Perth, who is believed to have been arrested by North Korean authorities last week.