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The Chinese military confronted three Australian Navy warships as they traveled through international waters in the South China Sea.  The ABC is reporting that the HMAS Anzac, HMAS Toowoomba, and HMAS Success were en route to Vietnam for their current goodwill mission while Chinese navy ships were conducting military exercises in the waters.  Despite a reported "robust" exchange between the two forces, the Defence Department says it will continue to exercise its freedom of navigation:  "As they have done for many decades, Australian vessels and aircraft will continue to exercise rights under international law to freedom of navigation and overflight, including in the South China Sea."  China has built a series of military bases on reefs and islets it claimed in waters hundreds of kilometers beyond its internationally recognized maritime boundaries. 

Although Cuba's new president is promising economic reform for a restless younger generation, Miguel Diaz-Canel says:  "There no room in Cuba for those who strive for the restoration of capitalism."  President Diaz-Canel was sworn in on Thursday, vowing to continue the revolutionary tendencies Fidel Castro, who liberated Cuba from US-backed gangster rule in 1959, and Raul Castro who took over when Fidel retired in 2012.  Cuba's foreign policy would remain "unaltered" and that any "necessary changes" would be decided by the Cuban people.

Illinois US Senator Tammy Duckworth and her newborn baby daughter Maile Pearl made history on Thursday.  The upper house of the US Congress unanimously waved long-standing rules and allowed the kid on the floor so that Senator Duckworth could cast a vote.  The new rule allows Senators to bring their children younger than one year old onto the Senate floor and breastfeed them during votes. 

Officials in Turin, Italy refused to register the baby boy born to a Lesbian couple, because its regressive and discriminatory law only allows fertility treatments to so called "stable heterosexual couples".  Ms. Chiara Foglietta - a center-Left councillor in Turin -  underwent artificial insemination in Denmark.  But she says bureaucrats instructed to lie and say she had sex with a man because "there is no formula allowing you to say that you had artificial insemination".  Foglietta told Italy's La Republica newspaper that she expected the Turin administration to intervene and resolve the case.

The mayor of an Osaka suburb is blasting the Japan Sumo Association for its idiotic practice of banning women from the Dohyo.  Mayor Tomoko Nakagawa of Takarazuka was barred from delivering a speech from the ring at a Sumo event there this month, despite male politicians being allowed.  Earlier this month, Sumo bosses were forced to apologize when female EMTs were stopped from treating Mayor Ryozo Tatami of Maizuru city near Kyoto when he collapsed on the Dohyo.  

Conservationist Jane Goodall and Sir Richard Branson have joined a list of famous names signing on to an open letter calling on South Africa's government to do more to combat Rhino poaching.  Conservation group Saving the Wild blames a "web of systematic corruption" within the justice system that allows poachers to kill the beasts:  "No action has been taken against this grossly corrupt alleged syndicate of justice officials," the group says, "We are concerned that members of this syndicate are under political protection."  More than 1,000 rhinos were killed by poachers for their horns in SA last year for the fifth year running.  The horns are then sold on the black market for superstition-based, ineffective, "traditional medicine" (AKA crap homeopathy) in Asia. 

The king of Swaziland has changed the name of his country to "The Kingdom of eSwatini".  King Mswati III is one of the world's few absolute monarchs and gets to do stuff like that.  He had already been using the term "eSwatini", which means "land of the Swazis", in official communiques and at last year's UN General Assembly.  Critics believe Mswati should instead do something about the economy, the country's dismal human rights record, and rampant discrimination against women.

US Prosecutors say no charges will be filed in the death of musician Prince.