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US Senator Bernie Sanders is making a second run at the Democratic Party presidential nomination for 2020.  The campaign for the 77-year old progressive says he raised more than a million US dollars in less than four hours - all in small donations from individuals and beating the pace set by California Senator Kamala Harris.  Bernie says the ideas he championed in 2016 - raising the minimum wage, medicare for all, and free college - are now part of the mainstream political discussion in the US, and now he's out to finish the job.  He also describes Donald Trump as a "pathological liar" and "racist" who must be removed from the White House.

The US House Oversight Committee - now run by Democrats - will investigate reports that the Trump Administration began talks to export nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries.  Whistleblowers fear that such a move would lead to instant proliferation of nuclear weapons.  Previous discussions about building nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia were cut short because the Saudis refused to guarantee the technology wouldn't be transferred into weapons programs - something that Trump apparently doesn't believe is a problem.

The Australian government is supporting a Canberra defense contractor selling high tech weaponry to the Saudis.  This is despite the increasing international concern over Saudi complicity in war crimes in Yemen and the brazen murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.  Electro Optic Systems (EOS) is providing the oil kingdom with something called a Remote Weapons System (RWS), which according to the ABC is a platform that holds military cannons, machine guns, and missile launchers and can be mounted on small military vehicles or naval vessels.

Thousands of people joined protests across France after anti-Semitic scum vandalized around 100 Jewish graves in an eastern cemetery.  "Whoever did this is not worthy of the French republic and will be punished," said President Emmanuel Macron on a visit to the cemetery in Quatzenheim in the Alsace region.  Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the government would consider new legislation to crackdown on anti-Semitism online.

A family that lost seven children in a terrible house fire in Halifax came to Canada as refugees from Syria in 2017.  The Barho family children were aged two- through 14-years old; the father Ebraheim is in a critical condition from running into the burning wood frame structure to attempt to rescue the children.  The mother, Kawthar Barho, is said to be extremely emotionally distressed. 

A court in Tanzania has sentenced a Chinese businesswoman nicknamed the "Ivory Queen" to 15 years in jail for smuggling hundreds of elephant tusks.  Yang Fenglan was charged with operating one of Africa's biggest ivory-smuggling rings, responsible for smuggling US$2.5 Million worth of tusks from some 400 murdered elephants.  Two Tanzanian men were also found guilty of involvement in the ring.