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Australia's harsh policies against asylum seekers came in for quite a battering at the United Nations - often from our closest allies.  In a three-hour session, a hundred countries criticized Oz over off-shoring asylum seekers, the detention of child migrants, and reports it had sent back legitimate refugees.  But even beyond that:  Denmark voiced concern about "the high percentage of Aboriginal children between the ages of 10 to 12 years held in detention centers"; Canada urged Australia to "prohibit the non-therapeutic sterilization of any individual who is not mentally competent to consent"; and Brazil criticized decried "the poor living conditions of indigenous peoples and their over-representation in the criminal justice system". 

The Immigration Department insists order is being restored at the Christmas Island Detention facility.  The government denies there was a large riot of detainees triggered by the death of an Iranian Kurdish man who escape the facility before his body was found at the base of a cliff.  But detainees quoted by Fairfax Media and the ABC told of broken walls and fences, fires, and guards abandoning their posts.  The opposition is demanding the government tell the entire story about what happened there this past weekend.

A Hong Kong court has freed two Aussies from prison, agreeing they had likely been duped drug traffickers.  Authorities at Hong Kong's airport discovered up to four kilos of ice in the luggage 80-year old Joerg Ulitzka and 44-year old Suong Thu Luu.  They were among a group of six foreigners who were jailed for as long as 19 months while prosecutors dithered.  "Never have the words been truer than now, that justice delayed is justice denied," said High Court judge Kevin Zervos, who told investigators to go after the kingpins whom he called the "major miscreants behind the drug trade" - not the civilians who were tricked into carrying.

Residents of northeast China locked themselves indoors while some wore gas masks as air pollution reached levels astonishing even for China - 56 times the levels considered safe by the World Health Organization.  In some areas of Shenyang, readings for PM2.5 - the particulate matter linked to lung and heart disease, as well as cancer - surpassed 1,400 micrograms per cubic meter of air.  The emergency sent people flooding into the city's hospitals with respiratory troubles on Monday, filling up wards before the day's end.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high in 2014- and that may represent a "new reality" (.pdf link).  This rise is fueling climate change and will make the planet more dangerous and inhospitable for future generations.  "Every year we report a new record in greenhouse gas concentrations.  Every year we say that time is running out," said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.  The report comes weeks before climate talks in Paris, where world leaders will try to agree on programs to effectively cut emissions.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says Russia should be banned from international athletic competition because of widespread corruption and the systematic use of banned performance enhancing substances.  And this ban would includes next year's Olympics in Brazil.  "One of our hopes is they will volunteer to take the remedial work," said Richard Pound, the head of WADA"s independent commission.  "If they don't the outcome may be no Russian track and field athletes in Rio.  I hope they recognize it is time to change." 

WADA formed the commission to investigate allegations of doping made by a German documentary.  Among other things, the report says athletes paid Russian anti-doping officials to cover-up bad tests or to actually supply banned substances, as well as the involvement of the FSB, Russia's successor to the KGB.   A drug-testing lab in Sochi destroyed 1,400 samples when WADA requested them for verification.  International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Sebastian Coe says he will wait for Russia's response before pushing to ban the country from the Olympics.

The president of the German Football Association (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach has resigned over a payment to FIFA that has resulted in a tax evasion investigation.  Critics say that money was to bribe some FIFA officials to vote for Germany's World Cup bid.  Niersbach says he is taking "political responsibility" of the situation, but has always acted on the up and up.