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The new conservative speaker of Venezuela's legislature is threatening a "change of government" in six months.  Speaker Henry Ramos Allup said that he isn't sure how it will happen, but it will be "constitutional" (something his allies had no consideration for when they staged two earlier failed coup attempts).  The new majority is already vandalizing and tearing down images of the late President Hugo Chavez.  And jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said the country cannot wait for presidential elections in 2019, which is when President Nicolas Maduro's current term legally ends.  Lopez is jailed for encouraging the deadly violence that killed 43 civilians in 2014 and 2015.

The United Nations Security Council says it is working on retaliatory measures against North Korea for yesterday's test of an apparent Hydrogen Bomb, a thermonuclear device that if confirmed would be a significant and dangerous advance of the hermit kingdom's weapons technology. The meeting was called by South Korea and Japan, the latter of which said that the "authority and credibility of the Security Council will be put in question" if it didn't act on punitive measures.  But Russia said that it is not leaning towards new sanctions against Pyongyang.

There is building doubt, mostly coming from the United States, that the explosion in North Korea's far northeast was a hydrogen bomb at all.  The shock wave measured magnitude 5.1 on the US Geological Survey earthquake scale - completely in line with North Korea's Atomic blasts in 2006, 2009, and 2013.  A Hydrogen bomb, they say, should have produced a much larger shock wave:  "The bang they should have gotten would have been 10 times greater than what they're claiming," said Rand Corporation analyst Bruce Bennett.  White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, "Nothing that happened overnight has changed our view of North Korea's nuclear capabilities."

Turkish cops confiscated more than 1,200 fake life jackets intended to be sold to migrants and refugees attempting the sea crossing to Greece and the European Union.  Cops raiding the workshop in the port of Izmir found the life jackets stuffed with packaging rather than flotation aids.  Of course, the problem isn't exactly new - it's been going on for months.  Four workers were taken into custody, including two Syrian girls apparently put up to scam.  Just this week, several children were among the 34 people found dead, washed ashore in failed crossing attempts.  Thousands died that way in 2015.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is warning of dire situations in three Syrian villages.  Civilians are dying in rebel-controlled Madaya outside Damascus because of lack of food and medicine.  But things are no better in government-held villages such as Foah and Kefraya, where civilians are eating grass as well as cats and dogs to survive.  The ICRC wants to get aid into these places in the next few days, but truces are extremely difficult to arrange in this civil war.

A Sharia law court in Nigeria has sentenced a cleric to death by hanging for claiming the founder of his Tijaniya sect is more important than the Islamic prophet Muhammad.  The lecture last May by Abdulazeez Dauda - also known as Abdul Inyass (really? really?) - set off rioting in the northern city of Kano.  The sentences for Dauda and four of his followers are the first death sentences to be handed down by Nigerian Sharia Law courts, which operate only in the Muslim north of the country.  The sentences will likely be appealed to the civilian appellate and supreme courts which overrule Sharia law.

Vietnam is investigating three mysterious "space balls" which fell out of the sky in the north.  The smallest was 250 grams, which fell onto a roof in the Yen Bai region and rolled to the ground.  But a larger one caused damage to a garden nearby, and the largest - 45 kilograms - very luckily seems to have avoided buildings and people and was located in a stream.  Defense officials believe that the objects are space debris that came loose from a  satellite before falling to earth.