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Syria's next humanitarian crisis is taking shape as government forces close in on some of the remaining strongholds.  Relentless rocket attacks and bombing by Russian and Syrian forces on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have killed more than 400 people in the last few days, despite being designated a "de-escalation zone" by Bashar al-Assad's allies.  "When the bombing happens, we don't hide in basements because people die in them," said Ahmed Al-Khaled, a wheelchair-bound 34-year-old father of two.  "The rockets being used tear the buildings apart and people get buried under the rubble where they hide," he added.  The rebel-held enclave is running short of food, water and medical supplies. 

Meanwhile, government forces in Idlib Province are fighting disparate opposition groups, including jihadists - trapped in the middle are as many as two million civilians.  "They are caught in continuous air raids, hospitals are being hit, refugees are being hit, people who have fled from war are being hit," said United Nations Syria special adviser Jan Egeland to the ABC's 7:30, describing the "war against civilians" as an "absolute outrage".  Turkey closed its border, and there's no where for people to go.  Many of the civilians were internally displaced from other areas of Syria that have already been decimated by fighting.

That was southwest and northwest Syria; now in the east, US forces overnight bombed pro-government forces in Deir al-Zour province, killing at least 100 fighters.  The US claims mutual-defense, saying it was responding to an attack on its Kurdish and Arab allies.  Syria accuses the US of carrying out a "brutal massacre".

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague will launch a preliminary inquiry in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs", a gruesome orgy of extra-judicial killings that has cost thousands of lives.  Amnesty International welcomed the announcement as "a warning to leaders around the world that those who order or incite crimes against humanity including murder will not be able to get away with it, and will be subject to investigation under international law".

The UK government will not challenge Bermuda's decision to repeal same-sex marriage.  The offshore UK territory is thus the world's first municipality to repeal LGBT marriage rights, which were legalised in a court decision in 2016.  The new Domestic Partnership Act signed by Governor Walton Brown allows gay or straight couples to form a partnership, which the Bermuda government says carries equivalent rights as a marriage.  MPs from all parties have condemned the UK government's cowardice, saying it kneecap the country's efforts to protect LGBT rights in other parts of the world.  Economically, it's a threat to tourism - especially to the cruise companies Cunard and P&O Cruises, which register their ships in Bermuda and face a series of cancellations of gay couples who planned weddings at sea.

The White House has changed its tune on top aide Rob Porter, on Thursday saying that it "terminated" the guy who controlled the door to the orange clown Donald Trump's office.  Yesterday, it was said that Porter had "resigned".  Porter was accused by two ex-wives of domestic abuse, one going as far as to release a photo of the black eye she said was caused by Porter.  These allegations were known to White House chief of staff John Kelly at the time of Porter's hiring.

A lawyer says Clint Eastwood's new film makes it impossible for her client to get a fair trial.  The movie "The 15:17 to Paris" stars the actual US soldiers who stopped a terrorist attack on a train in France in August 2015.  The problem is that the suspect Ayoub El-Khazzani has not gone to trial yet.  Attorney Sarah Mauger-Poliak wants the movie delayed in France, calling it a violation of her client's rights because it presents a "fictionalised" and "one-sided" view to the public as fact.  "That Hollywood has delivered its 'truth' before the judges is at the very least worrying," Ms. Mauger-Poliak told a French radio station.

It snowed in Paris.

Eight workers were killed when a subway project in China collapsed.

Passengers are denying a Nigerian airline's accusations they tampered with a plane's emergency door before it fell off on the tarmac.  Luckily, the Dana Air flight from Lagos to Abuja had already landed when it popped off with a bang, startling passengers - some of whom were already complaining about the rattling coming from it during the flight.  Management claims the door was inspected and it could not fall off "without a conscious effort by a passenger to open it".

Mayor Enrique Penalosa of Colombian capital Bogota is telling residents a garbage collector's strike will be over within 72 hours.  An estimated 3,750 of trash is clogging city streets and sidewalks.  Residents have taken to wearing masks to shield their noses from the stench wafting through the streets.