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Fascist demagogue and US Republican party presidential candidate Donald Trump says that women who seek abortions - which are perfectly legal in the United States,and have been since 1973 - should face "some sort of punishment" should the medical procedure be banned.  The president cannot ban abortions, but the Supreme Court can - and there's a vacancy on the high court.  Republican leaders have been concerned about Trump alienating key demographics needed to win a presidential election, and a recent poll says 73 percent of US women have a negative view of him.

France is dropping plans to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are convicted of terrorism related offenses.  President Francois Hollande said, "A compromise appears out of reach," after members of his Socialist Party and the opposition objected to the attempt to change the constitution.  The proposal led to the resignation of Christiane Taubira in February.  The plan was part of a package of security-minded proposals put forth in the panicked days following the 13 November attacks.

Now that Myanmar's first civilian leader in five decades has been sworn in as president, the ruling National League for Democracy is reportedly going to put forth a bill that would create a "Prime Minister"-like position for party leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.  The BCC says it read the bill that would create the new post called "Advisor to the State".  Her friend and long-time associate President Htin Kyaw has already given Suu Kyi control of four government portfolios.

Thailand's ruling junta has given soldiers new powers to crack down on pro-Democracy activists, seeding fears of more military state violence.  "These measures are another affirmation of the strengthening of a military state," said Sunai Phasuk of Human Rights Watch.  Thai authorities are arresting and charging people for the stupidest of perceived offenses, for example:  57-year old Theerawan Charoensuk was charged with sedition and faces seven years in prison for uploading a photo to her Facebook account of her holding a red plastic bowl that was gift from deposed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.  "The Thai junta's fears of a red plastic bowl show its intolerance of dissent has reached the point of absolute absurdity,”" said HRW's Brad Adams.

The Colombian government says it has entered peace talks with the Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN), the second largest rebel group involved in the five-decade civil war.  The two sides said they had agreed on a six-point agenda for the formal peace talks which will start in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito. Colombia is nearing a final peace deal with the FARC, the country's biggest insurgent group. 

A Nigerian official is denying a young woman's claim that she was one of the girls kidnapped from a state boarding school at Chibok town by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.  The teen had explosives strapped to her body, had been drugged, and was badly injured when she was arrested by Cameroonian police last week.  Nigeria claims it has no idea of any of the Chibok girls' whereabouts.  219 Chibok girls are still missing, and Boko Haram has stepped up the use of young female suicide bombers.

Baby Giraffe alert!  At the Santa Barbara Zoo in California.