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The UN Security Council is having an urgent meeting on a Iranian missile test that apparently took place over the weekend. The US and Israel say the alleged test is in violation of a Security Council resolution that "called upon" Iran not to undertake any tests of missiles designed to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads.  Tehran is already furious over Donald Trump's executive order forbidding  people from Iran and six other predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US, and is warning the US not to escalate the situation with the missile test.

US security chiefs have admitted flaws in the implementation of Trump's ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries entering the country.  US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief Kevin McAleenan acknowledged that communications "publicly and inter-agency haven't been the best" as the policy was rolled out.  Trump claimed everything was fine, but the order caused chaos at airports across the US, with border control agents detaining toddlers and five-year olds, grandmothers, and people who had served the US military in civilian capacities in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) won a stay on enforcement of the order, although there are reports some border agents are violating that court order.

US Democrats have boycotted votes for two of President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees, forcing a postponement.  The confirmation of US Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions was also delayed.  Democrats want more information from health nominee Tom Price - who is embroiled in an insider trading scandal - and treasury pick Stephen Mnuchin because of his behavior involving foreclosures at his former bank OneWest.  Democrats did allow long-time Washington insider Elaine Chao - wife of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell - to be confirmed as Transportation Secretary.

European Council President Donald Tusk says the current White House occupant is as much of a threat to European independence as: "assertive China"; "Russia's aggressive policy" toward its neighbors; and "radical Islam" sowing chaos in the Middle East and Africa.  Tusk is urging EU leaders to defy attempts at domination and resist nationalist and xenophobic lunatics trying to tear the continent apart:  "The disintegration of the European Union will not lead to the restoration of some mythical, full sovereignty of its member states, but to their real and factual dependence on the great superpowers: the United States, Russia and China," Tusk wrote to the EU leaders.

The United Nations is ordering Turkey to release a judge who was detained in the wake of last year's failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  The UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) says Aydin Sefa Akay is protected by diplomatic immunity because of his work on the Rwandan Genocide tribunal.  The UN says keeping a respected jurist locked up has a "chilling effect" on judicial independence and is giving a 14 February deadline for Erdogan to release the judge - but the Turkish ruler has denied previous requests. 

Poland's right-wing government stepped up its drive to tarnish the image of the country's first freely-elected President, Lech Walesa.  A prosecutor on Tuesday joined a historian and forensic evidence technician to claimed that Walesa's handwriting matched that of a Polish state security operative calling himself "Bolek", who was paid during the 1970s for information on Walesa's then-co-workers.  They claim that Walesa was Bolek, informing on workers from 1970 through 1976.  Walesa says the "truth is on my side" and calls the documents "forgeries"; but even his friends are changing their defense from denial to reminding Poles about the choices they faced during the Cold War days.  In the 1980s, Walesa led the Solidarity Union that halted work at the Gdansk shipyards as well as a series of peaceful protests that slowly, eventually led to the ouster of the Soviet-backed government.

A senior Thai official has resigned after being arrested for stealing artwork off the walls of a hotel in Kyoto, Japan.  60-year old Suphat Saquandeekul said he was drunk when security cameras caught him pilfering the three paintings, worth a lousy US$125.  Suphat was working for a body tasked with trying to roll back Thailand's reputation as a counterfeit hub.