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Australian mother Sally Faulkner has surrendered any custody claims to her two children, aged 3 and 5, to their father in Lebanon.  Ali al-Amin then dropped kidnapping charges for the botched and apparently highly illegal "child recovery operation"; Faulkner, who previously claimed Mr. Amin took the children from Oz to Lebanon without her permission, plus the Channel Nine TV crew that accompanied her on the ill-advised trip to Lebanon including reporter Tara Brown were then freed on bail after two weeks in jail.  Two Brits and two Lebanese are still jailed in the case.  Former surfing instructor al-Amin says he'll eventually bring the kids back for a visit to Oz,"When everything cools down and we come to our senses in regards to all this."

A Norwegian judge is under fire for ruling that authorities did indeed violate the human rights of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik by holding him in solitary confinement in a three-cell complex - where, BTW, he can play video games, watch TV, and exercise.  In 2011, Breivik murdered 77 people in a bomb and gun attack in Oslo and a Labor party youth camp.  Most of this disgusting coward's victims were children.  The judge said that keeping this vile prisoner in solitary was a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.  Some of the surviving family members support the rule of law, but many are upset that Breivik's rights seem to outweigh those of the murdered children.

Gunman on motorcycles killed seven Pakistani police officers involved in a polio vaccination campaign at two locations in Karachi.  An offshoot of the Taliban calling itself Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility.  Polio was well on its way to being eradicated until the 2000s when Islamic militants targeted vaccination efforts both in Pakistan and in neighboring Afghanistan, based on conspiracy theories that they are a cover for a Western-led sterilization campaign.  The trend in this decade had been towards reducing polio infections.

The death toll from the Ecuador earthquake rose to 553.  Another 4,065 people are injured and about 100 remain missing following Saturday evening's magnitude-7.8 quake along the Pacific coast.

The internet messaging app Snapchat is being roundly criticized for a Bob Marley filter in honor of April 20 - or, 420 Day.  Critics say it's pretty racist, adding what amounts to blackface and cartoonish dreadlocks to portrait photos.  Fans of the reggae legend Bob Marley accuse Snapchat of reducing a groundbreaking musician to a corporate mascot for marijuana use.  In its defense, Snapchat says it did all of this with the permission of the Marley estate; and let's face it, Bob's heirs have licensed his image on soft drinks, coffee, electronics, clothing, tampons, household insulation.  I might have made up a couple.

The US Treasury Department says that it will remove the image of the slave-owning, genocidal 19th century president Andrew Jackson from the US$20 bill, and replace it with that of Harriet Tubman, who was born a slave and became a prominent abolitionist.  18th century bureaucrat Alexander Hamilton will remain on the US$10, but the reverse side will honor Women's Rights figures.  As you can image, conservative white males are losing their shyte over this.

The German newspaper Die Velt says Volkswagen is close to settling with the US over Dieselgate, the scandal in which the company programmed its cars to fake good results on US government emissions tests.  Affected US car owners would get $5,000 apiece in a US$3 Billion settlement, according to the report.  Uhm, will Aussie car owners get anything?

Mitsubishi Motors has admitted falsifying fuel economy data for more than 600,000 vehicles sold in Japan.  "The wrongdoing was intentional," said Mitsubishi Motors president Tetsuro Aikawa, who did one of those ubiquitous Japanese apology bows before throwing the blame off to employees.  "It is clear the falsification was done to make the mileage look better.  But why they would resort to fraud to do this is still unclear," he pondered.  Yeah, why indeed (>_<#).