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British PM Theresa May was back in Brussels failing to secure any more concessions for her country's exit from the European Union, now just over a month away without a deal.  While she was doing this, three members of her Conservative Party quit to form a new independent group with the eight former Labour MPs who quit earlier this week.  The trio decried the Tories' latest swing to the right and abandoning the center ground; at the same time they slammed the party's "disastrous" handling of Brexit, describing it as "recklessly marching the country to the cliff edge of no deal" and their "final straw".  This will make it even more difficult for Ms. May to get anything accomplished.  May said she was saddened; Jeremy Corbyn reminded his defectors that they were elected to carry out the Labour manifesto.

Australia is barring the conspiracy theorist David Icke from entering the country.  The ABC its sources say the government rejected Icke on character grounds; he is known for Holocaust denial and his claim that shape-shifting lizard people have infiltrated the top levels of authority, including he UK Royal Family.  The Anti-Defamation Commission, which campaigned against Icke, praised the Government for "declaring in a loud voice that anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers will never find a home in Australia".

A Bondi woman will sit in jail for another week to learn if she will be extradited to Chile to face charges for alleged crimes committed under the fascist Pinochet regime.  Chile accuses 66-year old Adriana Rivas of taking part in the kidnapping of seven people, including a Communist party leader who was held in a secret prison before he was suffocated and thrown into the ocean.  Rivas has admitted she worked for Pinochet's oppressive and murderous DINA secret police, calling it the "best years" of her life.  She appeared in court via videolink yesterday and the matter was adjourned until 1 March.

Egypt executed nine men in the car bomb assassination of the country's former top prosecutor in 2015.  Human rights campaigners are less than convinced of their guilt: "This trial was a monument to unfair trials in Egypt," said Amnesty International's Hussein Baoumi, "You can see from the start that many of those convicted were forcibly disappeared at the beginning, then tortured into giving confessions."  Their deaths brings to 15 the number of people executed under dodgy conditions in Egypt in recent weeks.

A convoy carried hundreds of men, women and children from Baghuz, the last bastion of the so-called Islamic State in Syria.  US-backed Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) are waiting for the last civilians to leave the Euphrates River town before launching an assault on what is believed to be around 300 or so jihadists.  The SDF says some IS-fighters have been arrested trying to fit in with the 2,000 evacuees.

A first in the modern world:  Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic's same-sex partner has given birth to a healthy baby boy.  It's even more unusual because of Serbia's conservative streak, and homophobia is common in the Balkan country.  Civil Partnerships are not recognized and the constitution specifically defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. 

A Paris court leveled a 3.7 Billion Euro (AU$5.8 Billion) fine against the Swiss banking giant UBS for helping clients hide billions from French tax authorities between 2004 and 2012.  UBS, which had earlier rejected a 1.1 Billion Euro settlement offer, said it had consistently contested any criminal wrongdoing and would appeal against the verdict.