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French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Union and business leaders about the Yellow Vest protests that have jolted his country for the past few weeks; thousands of people have been arrested, hundreds have been injured, and four people have died.  Seen by most of the protesters as the neo-liberal, austerity-loving face of the economic "reforms" that have sent them to the streets, the protests represent a threat to his term in office.  After being roundly booed while surveying damage in Paris, he has kept a low profile on the matter.  His government has already dropped a fuel tax hike taht was the last straw for many protesters, and later this week Mr. Macron is expected to address the French people.

The protests and rioting have been a "catastrophe for commerce, it's a catastrophe for our economy" according to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.  The Eiffel Tower, other major tourist attractions, and stores up and around the Champs Elysees were closed or damaged during the latest of what's become a weekly demonstration; and while injuries were down this past weekend, "there was much more damage yesterday than a week ago" because Saturday's protests were more dispersed, said Paris' deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire.  Business leaders believe they lost anywhere from 1 Billion to more than 10 Billion Euros since the protests against the high cost of living began in mid-November. 

Investigators in New Zealand have found a body outside Auckland they believe to be that of British backpacker Grace Millane, although forensic tests will have to confirm that.  A 26-year old man is charged with her murder.  She had been in daily contact with her family in the UK via social media, but that ended on 1 December when Grace was last seen checking into an Auckland hotel with the man now under arrest.

Officials in the western Canadian province of British Columbia have cancelled a planned trade mission to China in the midst of controversy of Canada's arrest of a high-ranking Chinese telecom executive on a US warrant; there are fears Beijing might detain Canadians in retaliation.  US prosecutors suspect Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou of skirting international sanctions on technology sales to Iran.  China's official Xinhua News Agency said Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng summoned US Ambassador Terry Branstad to lodge "solemn representations and strong protests" over the matter, which it considers to be tied directly to trade issues between the two countries.

Brazil's international construction giant Odebrecht is cutting a deal with Peru:  It will provide information to prosecutors about the four former presidents and the opposition leader the firm allegedly bribes in pay-to-play schemes; in exchange, the company will still be allowed to operate in the country.  Odebrecht is suspected of paying billions of dollars in bribes to corrupt officials on four continents.

Kiev will allow the Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty to lapse when it comes up for renewal next year.  Ukraine believes Russia very much violated the treaty with the annexation of Crimea and the covert war in the eastern Ukrainian coal-mining region of Donbass.