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The American guided missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed through the South China Sea, in defiance of the 12-nautical mile territorial limits China claims around artificial islands it has built up in the Spratly archipelago.  Beijing reacted with anger, and not much else; officials protested to the US ambassador, and Chinese shipped tracked the Lassen as it cruised through (perhaps telling those danged Americans to get off their lawn).  The Spratlys are hundreds of kilometers south of China's internationally-recognized maritime boundary. 

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told a congressional hearing that the US military "will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law permits".  And the US ally The Philippines has no problem with US destroyers sailing through the waters, where locals had fished for centuries.

A Saudi airstrike hit a hospital in Yemen operated by the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.  No deaths, but two staffers were hurt and the facility is wrecked.  The Saudis are trying to try to restore the Riyadh-friendly government after it was toppled by Iran-backed Houthi forces.  But growing death and injury tolls among civilians are alarming human rights groups.  The bombing "could be a mistake, but the fact of the matter is it's a war crime'" said MSF country director Hassan Boucenine.  "There's no reason to target a hospital.  We provided (the Saudis) with all of our GPS coordinates about two weeks ago," he added.

Iran might take part in talks on the future of Syria.  Delegates from the US, Russia, Europe, and Syria's Arab neighbors are taking part in the talks in Vienna on Thursday.  The latter parties oppose Iran's involvement - but in a major shift in Washington's thinking on the region - US state department spokesman John Kirby said that he expected Iran "to be invited to participate".  He added that it's up to Tehran to accept or reject the invitation.

Islamic State terrorists in Syria executed three prisoners by strapping them to pillars in the ruins of Palmyra, and then blowing them up along with the antiquities.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports, "This execution is the first of its kind by the Islamic State, the organization (that) in recent months has invented new ways of execution,"  Last week, the terrorists released video of the execution of a teenage Syrian soldier by being run over by a tank.

Britain's House of Lords uncharacteristically rejected the government's proposal to drastically cut welfare benefits, with the old guys in fur-lined red robes calling on the government to find ways to help those who would be left worse off, such as single parents and the self-employed.  Didn't. See. That. Coming.  This follows weeks of criticism of the proposed cuts, and a study that said it will leave millions of UK households worse off.  It's also seen as a major political defeat for finance minister George Osbourne, seen as a possible successor to PM David Cameron:  Even Murdoch's tabloid The Sun described him as a "'Borne Loser" who was left isolated after being "forced into a humiliating climbdown on his huge cuts to tax credits after crushing defeats in the House of Lords".

London Mayor and uber klutz Boris Johnson falls down during a tug of war.  Last month, Johnson visited Tokyo, took part in a mock football game, and knocked down a little kid.  Boris would also like to replace David Cameron on the top of the Tory heap.

The US Justice Department and FBI opened an investigation into a white deputy's brutal arrest of a black high school student in a classroom in South Carolina, after video of the shameful incident almost instantly went viral.  It shows now-suspended school police officer Ben Fields at Spring Valley High School in Columbia on Monday, slamming the girl to the ground backwards, and dragging her across the room.  The girl's offense was refusing to leace the classroom after getting caught using a cellphone.  Within hours, the incident went global under the hashtag #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh.  Even presidential candidates weighed in, with Hillary Clinton noting that the classroom is no place for violence.