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Israel's attorney general formally indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three corruption cases involving bribery, fraud and breach of trust, referring the charges to a district court.  All this happened while while Netanyahu himself was visit his pal Donald Trump in Washington, DC.  Netanyahu's allies had earlier dropped their bid for immunity from prosecution in the three corruption cases.  "Netanyahu will go to trial now, and we must move forward," said Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White opposition party which is currently deadlocked in a power struggle with Netanyahu's Likud.  "Israelis have a clear choice," Gantz continued, "No one can run a state and at the same time manage three serious criminal cases for bribery, fraud and breach of trust."  Israel's next election to try and break the impasse is just weeks away on 2 March.

Netanyahu and Trump later unveiled their latest Mideast Peace proposal, which is dead on arrival - the Palestinians have already rejected the plan that delays the two-state solution.  Critics have lambasted the plan for looking more like Netanyahu's wish-list than a legitimate plan to establish peace in the Mideast.

Australian scientists have recreated the Wuhan Coronavirus in a lab, which is a crucial step in developing a vaccine to stop 2019-nCoV which has killed more than a hundred people in China and infected more than 4,500 people around the world.  "We got it," said Mike Catton, co-deputy director of Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, announcing the first such breakthough anywhere in the world outside China.  The Doherty Institute will share it with the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) before it is given to labs across the globe.  Meanwhile, Germany and Japan both proved that 2019-nCoV is communicable from person to person by announcing new infections of people who did not travel to Wuhan, China before getting sick.

French police clashed with Paris firefighters who were protesting for a raise in their hazard bonus which has not changed since 1990.  The heavily-armored cops viciously attacked the firefighters and their Union allies with batons and shields.  It's part of a winter of discontent in France as more and more sectors of the economy stand up to President Emmanuel Macron's austerity.  

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked the Caribbean, and was felt as far away as Miami where some government high rise offices were evacuated when they swayed with the vibrations.  The epicenter was in the middle of a triangle from eastern Cuba to Montego Bay, Jamaica, and west to Grand Cayman Island.  Around Georgetown, Grand Cayman, sinkholes opened up in the ground and beneath roads; water tanks and swimming pools splashed and jars of delicious Guava Jelly flew off of shelves in Montego Bay.  Despite being one of the most powerful quakes ever recorded in the region, there appears to have been no tsunami and only light damage.

The UK has brushed off American warnings and decided to let Huawei continue to be used in its 5G networks.  London will restrict Huawei from supplying kit to "sensitive parts" of the network, known as the core.  The US intelligence community and the State Department have long-warned that Huawei's ties to Chinese intelligence represents a threat to the security of nations using its gear in telecommunication networks.

Japan's natural sympathy for the underdog was fulfilled big time this weekend, as a rank-and-file rikishi defied all odds and won the January Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.  Tokushoryu, who spent twelve of the last 13 tournaments in the lower division, might have inspired by the death of his college wrestling coach as he marked 14 wins and one defeat in the two week tournament.  After bursting into tears upon winning the contest (Japan loves that, too), Tokushoryu said:  "Deep down I'm feeling like: 'Is it ok for me to win the championship?' I was the lowest-ranking fighter, so I had nothing to fear. I just had to give it everything I had."  It's the first time since 2000 that a rikishi from the lowest rank has won a tournament.  At 33, he's right around the age when most Sumo wrestlers pack it in, making the surprise victory even sweeter.