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Russia says it will treat US coalition jets flying west of the Euphrates River in Syria as "targets", after the US shot down a Russian-made Syria Air Force jet.  A coalition statement said the Syrian SU-22 had dropped bombs near Western-backed fighters - the US says it tried to use a military hotline to call the Russians and get them to convince their Syrian allies to back off.  When that failed, a F/A-18E Super Hornet "immediately show down" the Syrian jet.  The Syrian pilot is believed to have bailed.  Just seems to me that if the Russians were actually angry they'd release the pee tape, but a proxy war is always a possibility.

Especially when Tehran is getting involved.  Iran launched launched ground-to-ground Zulfiqar ballistic missiles at so-called Islamic State targets in eastern Syria.  And just as this was the first time the US directly downed a Syrian plane in the Civil War, it's the first time Iran carried out such an action.  Analysts believe Iran is trying to rid the targeted area of Sunni militants in order to create a "Shi'ite crescent" of influence linking its allies in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

"Terrorism is terrorism," says London Mayor Sadiq Khan after a white man from Wales drove a rented van into a crowd of Muslims exiting late night prayers at a mosque in Finsbury Park, North London.  Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said the incident was "quite clearly an attack on Muslims".  Police arrested 47-year old Darren Osborne for attempted murder and on suspicion of terrorism offenses.  Although witnesses heard him screaming that he wanted to "kill Muslims", shocked members of Osborne's family in Cardiff claimed he hadn't previously expressed racist opinions.

Met Police raised the Grenfell Tower Fire death toll to 79 lives lost, with residents fearing it has only passed the halfway point.  The tabloid press is going with a horrifying story of more than 40 people being found in just one flat, apparently having congregated there out of fear and mutual support.  Both the Met and the London Fire Brigade say they know nothing of the claim - but it does speak to the mistrust survivors have for the seemingly slow peace of the official process of locating and identifying victims of last week's high rise fire.

A heavily armed man crashed a Renault sedan into a Paris police van on the Champs Elysees, hoping to cause an explosion.  Cops didn't bother to fire on him as he was burning to death pretty well on his own.  They later found gas canisters, two handguns, and one Kalashnikov assault weapon in the vehicle and labeled it a 'terrorist attack'.  No one else was injured.

A dozen people managed to survive the massive wildfire in central Portugal by sheltering in a water tank.  Their village was cut off by the fire, so the group - including a 95-year old woman - spent more than six hours in the tank as the fire spread around them.  Dry lightning caused the fires which killed more than 60 people.

Police in Nigeria say five female suicide bombers have killed twelve people and injured eleven more in Borno State - that's the northeastern area where the IS-allied Boko Haram operates.  The terrorist group has been at it for eight years and is responsible for 20,000 deaths.  Although it pretty much lost the territory it once controlled, Boko Haram continues to lash out via suicide bombers believed to be kidnapped children.

Star Wars actress and writer Carrie Fisher had cocaine, heroin, and MDMA in her system when she died aboard a passenger plane on 23 December last year.  Her mother, Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds, died a day later.  Last week, the coroner ruled the 60-year old's cause of death was "sleep apnea", a condition in which oxygen cannot get into the lungs during sleep or unconsciousness.  Fisher was open about her battles with drug addition and bi-polar disorder, and went through several stints of rehab and electroconvulsive therapy.  But she owned it and didn't blame it having famous parents:  "It's always been my responsibility," she once said, "If it was Hollywood to blame, then we'd all be dope addicts."

Otto Warmbier died in an Ohio hospital, days after being sent home in a coma by North Korea where he suffered some sort of massive brain trauma.  Last year, Pyongyang sentence Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel.  Shortly after that, something happened.  North Korea claims he suffered botulism and fell into a coma.  His US doctors say there is no evidence of that.

The United Nations is asking Thailand is ease up on prosecutions for insulting the monarchy.  The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it was deeply troubled by the high rate of prosecutions under the country's strict lese majeste laws, and notes that sentences are disproportionate to the "crime" - the harshest sentence was handed down last month, 35 years for naughty Facebook posts.