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Despite widespread criticism of his performance in Helsinki this week, Donald Trump is inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to come to Washington, DC later this year.  And it's apparently a complete surprise to much of his national security staff, which considers Putin's Russia to be responsible for attacking the 2016 US presidential elections.  During a live forum at a security conference in Colorado, moderator Andrea Mitchell of NBC News asked US National Intelligence director Dan Coats if he knew about Trump's surprise announcement, and it was apparent he didn't:  "Say that again," Mr Coats said cupping his ear while the audience laughed uncomfortably.  Trump has repeatedly taken Putin's side over Coats, who says Russia is planning to mess with the upcoming midterm elections in November.

Trump was forced to back off of an outrageous suggestion that he extradite American citizens to Russia for questioning by authorities there, after the Senate voted 98-0 on a resolution warning him not to do it.  Russia wants to interrogate former US Ambassador Michael McFaul as well as billionaire financier Bill Browder who championed economic sanctions against the Kremlin.  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the blatant sell-out to Putin's interests "deeply troubling"; President Obama's ex-National Security Adviser Susan Rice said it was "outrageous"; even current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was "not going to happen".

The European Commission is taking Hungary to court over its new law that criminalizes giving support to asylum seekers.  In its filing with the European Court of Justice (EJC), the commission says the law is illegal because it curtails the asylum seekers' right to turn to national, international, and non-governmental organizations for help.  The government of far right Prime Minister Viktor Orban passed the law, justifying it with a conspiracy theory:  Orban accused Hungarian-American billionaire philanthropist of trying to trying to fill Hungary with Middle Eastern and South Asian immigration.  Of course, there was no such plot.

An Austrian governing party official says it will not implement a plan to force people who purchase Kosher or Halal meat to register with the local government in Niederosterreich, or Lower Australia.  That troubling scheme was brought up by decree by a minister from the coalition partner FPO, a far right party originally formed by former SS officers after World War II.  The far right guy claimed the measure is necessary "from an animal welfare point of view".  But Oskar Deutsch, the president of the Jewish Community in Vienna, warned that compiling a list of Jews is a repeat of the Aryan purity laws from before World War II; and the American Jewish Community also referenced Nazi decrees in opposing the plan.  "Soon with a star on the chest?" a spokesperson for the group wrote on its official Twitter account.

Israel's ruling coalition pushed through a law declaring the country to be the "nation-state of the Jewish people".  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nationalist coalition hailed the bill, while centrists and Leftists condemned it as racist, anti-democratic, and potentially fatal to ideals of equality.  They say it betrays the 1948 constitution because it omits any mention of democracy or the principle of equality, while enshrining the right of national self-determination in Israel as "unique to the Jewish people" - not to all of its citizens.  It also downgrades Arabic from an official language to one with a "special status". 

French prosecutors are investigating a senior presidential aide who was caught on mobile video in a vicious attack on May Day demonstrators in Paris earlier this year.  Alexandre Benalla, an assistant to President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, was wearing a police helmet and wielding a truncheon.  Benalla was accompanied by a reserve policeman and employee of President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party. 

In Peru, three top justice officials have stepped down in a a scandal involving audio recordings that suggest that favorable prison sentences and legal influence is for sale.  The president of Peru's Supreme Court Duberli Rodriguez resigned on Thursday, following the Justice Minister and the president of the National Council of the Magistrature.  One recording showed a judge discussing a man accused of raping a young girl, offering to reduce the prison sentence or declare him innocent.  Peru's ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned in disgrace earlier this year in a graft scandal.