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The European Court of Justice has rejected an appeal from the big chemical companies to stop the ban on three insecticides linked to the global decline of bee populations.  And remember: no bees, no food.  European governments last month agreed to ban the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides on outdoor crops from next year, although they can still be used in greenhouses.  Chemicals giants Bayer and Syngenta wanted the court to overturn the ban because "money", but the court decided "let's not starve to death" instead.  The banned neonicotinoids are clothianidin, thiamethoxam, and imidacloprid.

The EU will defy upcoming US economic sanctions on Iran by activating a law that bans European companies and courts from complying with US decisions.  The orange clown Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Iran Nuclear Deal and said the harsh economic sanctions would be reinstated, but European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said on Thursday the commission has a "duty to protect European companies" from American sanctions.  The law will protect smaller companies that don't do any banking in the US, but larger multi-nationals like the Total Petroleum company are pretty much screwed and are already pulling out of joint projects with Iran.  And while the EU is trying to save what's left of the Iran deal, Russia's Sukhoi is gleefully moving to replace Iran's aging passenger airplane fleet, since Boeing and Airbus have been forced to pull out.

With North Korea hardening its language backing further away from peace talks with South Korea and the US, the Pentagon says the joint US-South Korea military exercises that have so offended the Pyongyang will go on as scheduled:  "There's been no talk of reducing anything," said Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White, "There's been no talk of changing our scope.  These are annual exercises."  Weeks after the leaders of the two Koreas held hands at the Panmunjom peace village, North Korean Chief negotiator Ri Son-gwon reverted to angry language, calling Southern leaders "incompetent", and saying Pyongyang will not "hide our feeling of repugnance towards" US National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Donald Trump simultaneously distanced himself from his desperation to attend the summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un next month, while claiming everything was on track.  "North Korea's actually talking to us about times and everything else as though nothing happened," he told reporters in a haphazard appearance at the White House, "We have not been told anything.  We're just reading stories like you are."  And then he went all detached practically in the same breath, "We'll see what happens.  If the meeting happens, it happens."  But this is par for the course for Trump, who has throughout his life dealt with failure by flagrantly misrepresenting it as success.

Poland says it broke up two "Russian hybrid war networks" planning to spread fake news to undermine Poland's relationship with neighboring Ukraine.  One agent identified only as "Yekaterina C" would be expelled soon, while four other people were now barred from entering Poland.  At the same time, Warsaw blasted Russia for opening the new Crimean Bridge which connects Russia with the Crimean Peninsula, citing UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 which called Russian moved to annex the territory "illegal".

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and angry student protesters traded insults at a televised forum he said was to restore peace and to "get past this tragic moment".  Instead, they called him a "murderer" and called for "an end to the repression".  More than 50 people have been killed in violence that followed the breaking of the final straw, Ortega's plan to cut pensions.  Ortega said people "from both sides" died; but the students angrily told him, "You're the boss of the paramilitaries, of the troops, of the mobs backing the government."  Another round of talks is due to be held on Friday.

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