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The US will impose a 25 percent tax on steel and 10 percent tax on aluminum from the EU, Mexico, and Canada - its closest neighbors and allies.  Canada and Mexico are already retaliating:  Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Ottawa will impose retaliatory tariffs billions of dollars worth of US imports, including whiskey, orange juice, steel, aluminum, and other products.  Mexico targeted a wide range of farm and industrial items.  European Union ministers already pre-approved counter tariffs on Harley Davidson motorcycles, bourbon, and agricultural imports from the "red states" that supported the orange clown Donald Trump in the last presidential election. 

Although Trump's supposed motivation was the protection of American jobs and production, American aluminum producers said thanks but no thanks to the tariffs:  "Today's action does little to address the China challenge while potentially alienating allies and disrupting supply chains that more than 97 percent of US aluminum industry jobs rely upon," said Heidi Brock, president & CEO of the Aluminum Association.  "During a time of record demand for aluminum in the United States, it is critical that aluminum producers across the value chain have a steady and reliable source of supply." 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Lithuania and Romania are guilty of violating the rights of two al-Qaeda terror suspects by allowing the CIA to torture them.  The US captured Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri after the September 2001 attacks, and tortured them in secret black site prisons in the countries.  Both men are still in the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.  The ECHR issued a similar ruling against Poland in 2014.

Denmark has banned the full-face veil, a law that avoids mentioning any religion but very obviously will disproportionately target Muslim women wearing a niqab or burka.  Initial fines will be around the AU$175 - $200 range, going up ten times higher for "repeat offenders".  Amnesty International says it is a "discriminatory violation of women's rights" to wear WTF they want to wear, but the European Court of Human Rights last year upheld a similar ban in Belgium.

South Africa's Education Minister Angie Motshekga said she was "extremely disappointed" after seeing footage of near-naked high school girls performing an archaic dance at a regional school competition.  The girls from the Xhosa ethnic group were performing wearing only a small apron, known as an "inkciyo", exposing their breasts and buttocks.  And some idiot "teacher" - a guy, of course - said he was "proud" of it.  "It is completely inappropriate on the part of educators and they should know better than to expose teenage girls to this form exploitation," Ms. Motshekga said in a statement.  "There is absolutely nothing wrong with being proud of your culture and heritage, but there was absolutely no need for these children to perform completely naked.  That indignity goes against the values of our cultures."

Spain's conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy could face a no-confidence vote as early as Friday, after his allies The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) abandoned him and said that it will support the motion.  That sets up Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez with a clear path to get a majority of 176 votes and become PM.  Rajoy's People's Party (PP) has failed to take responsibility for a wide-ranging corruption scandal in which one of its former treasurers was given a 33-year jail sentence.  Rajoy also failed to prevent the Catalan secession vote, and maintains a hard line against aging, crusty old Basque separatists who've given up their independence drive after years of dormancy.

Brazil's chief justice is condemning un-elected president Michel Temer's threat to use the military to break-up the truckie's strike that is paralyzing the country.  Carmen Lucia, the president of Brazil's Supreme Court (STF), said democracy is "the only legitimate way" to overcome the "grave moment" of the country.  Truck drivers have parked their rigs outside refineries and in key highway interchanges, bringing much commerce to a halt.  The military and federal police have formed a convoy of 300 trucks to move agricultural products into Rio De Janeiro's main marketplace, after 90 percent of food markets were closed on Monday due to lack of shipments.

Wildlife rangers had to shoot a bear with a tranquilizer dart after it wandered out of the hills and into the eastern Los Angeles suburb of La Verne.  The big bear eventually fell asleep and they drove him back out into the wilderness.

On the other side of Wild America, a goose shortened his Major League Baseball debut after landing on the diamond in Detroit, by taking off again and flying into the scoreboard - ouch.  It which was lit blue and probably resembled a passage to a clear sky to the big bird.  Luckily, a veterinarian was in the crowd to help.

Philadelphia cops had to escort some Peacocks off the major highway they had wandered.