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First things first:  Germany's Bremerhaven Zoo debuts Lili the Polar Bear Cub.  The orphaned Cheetah Cub rescued from a wildlife park in Oregon has a new home at the Cincinnati Zoo.  UK's Chester Zoo has four new Humboldt Penguin chicks; they haven't gotten their tuxedos yet.

Iceland's embattled Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson stepped down amid widespread public disgust and protests over his appearance in The Panama Papers - that's the massive document dump from the archives Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specializes in helping the world's wealthiest one percent hide their assets from taxation authorities.  Mr. Gunnlaugsson was quickly disowned by his ruling Progressive Party, which will attempt to hold on to power based on the rest of its record and the healthy economy.  The now former PM was revealed to have had a hidden financial interest in several banks that were bailed out by the government after the 2008 crash.  

New FIFA President Gianni Infantino is now implicated in the Panama Papers.  Mr. Infantino took over the world football body after corruption allegations sunk the leadership of the loathed Sepp Blatter.  But now, documents raise questions about deals with one of the indicted figures in the FIFA scandal, and the European football body UEFA while Infantino was the boss.  The UEFA claimed it had no dealings with any of the indicted FIFA figures, but Infantino's signature is now revealed to be on UEFA contracts with these people in deals struck on 2003 and 2009.  The contracts themselves appear to be legal.

US President Barack Obama is calling for international tax reform in the wake of revelations from The Panama Papers.  "There is no doubt that the problem of global tax avoidance generally is a huge problem," Mr. Obama told reporters in unscripted remarks in the White House Briefing Room.  "The problem is that a lot of this stuff is legal, not illegal."  The president says the loopholes that protect the wealthiest from taxation come at the expense of education, health, and a plethora of other programs that benefit working class and middle class families - and fly in the face of "the basic principle of making sure everyone pays their fair share".

Rescuers in China pulled a three year old boy out of a well he had got stuck in earlier.  It took three and a half hours to get the kid out.

Venezuelan cops arrested Interpol's chief drug detective in the country for allegedly shipping almost 350 kilos of cocaine to the Dominican Republic.  Airport security in the DR found the drug packed into two suitcases in the hold of a Cessna that 42-year old Eliecer Garcia Torrealba had waved through a Venezuelan airport.  Cops also busted five members of the Venezuelan military and three airport security officials.

The International Criminal Court at The Hague has thrown out charges against Kenyan Vice President William Ruto, although justices also refused to declare him innocent.  Mr. Ruto denied accusations of fomenting violence after the 2007 election after which 1,200 people were killed.  Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta welcomed the decision, saying the charges had been a "nightmare" for his nation; critics say the victims have been cheated.  The court dropped similar charges against President Kenyatta in 2014, claiming that witnesses had been intimidated.

South African President Jacob Zuma has survived an impeachment vote brought by the opposition.  The motion was tabled after falling more than a hundred votes short.  Mr. Zuma has been found in violation of the constitution for failing to abide by a court order requiring him to pay back public money used to upgrade his family compound.

Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces have agreed on an immediate ceasefire after nearly four days of fighting in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. 

Russian police detained 44 members of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult involved in the 1995 Sarin Gas attack in a Tokyo subway which killed twelve people and injured thousands.  Now renamed "Aleph", the suspects were rounded up in major raids in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.  Investigators say Aleph's main goal was to coerce its followers into handing over their property, using "physical and psychological pressure".  Last  week, the tiny Balkan country Montenegro deported more than 60 members of the cult.

Doctors at a Cairo, Egypt medical NGO that treats victims of torture defied police who tried to shut it down.  It's the second time this year that Egyptian police tried to raid the Nadeem Center's offices in downtown Cairo.  Most of the people who undergo medical and psychological treatment at the Nadeem Center were tortured by Egypt's security forces.