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There are reports of a new chlorine gas attack in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of East Ghouta, which has undergone a relentless bombing by Russian-backed Syrian forces for the past week, even past the UN Security Council's demands for a cease fire.  The civilian death toll is way up above 500 lives lost - the dead includes more than 120 children.  The government of Bashar al-Assad has been repeatedly accused of using chemical weapons during the civil war, mostly against its own citizens.

The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for a bombing in Yemen that killed 14 people in the port city Aden. 

China's Communist Party wants to change the country's constitution to remove the two-term limit on the presidency - which would allow Xi Jinping to run the show beyond the usual ten years, perhaps indefinitely.  It shows how the enigmatic Xi has assumed a level of authority not seen since Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping.  Since Xi's anti-corruption campaign has succeeded in removing any challenging voices, the party is expected to clear this in early March.

Pyongyang signaled through South Korea that it might be willing to hold talks with the US, which (indirectly) said that nuclear disarmament in the North must be the end goal.  And then that was that and the Olympics ended so we'll be back where we were a few weeks ago.

The Nationals are expected to pick Wagga Wagga MP Michael McCormack as the party's new leader and thus Deputy Prime Minister.  He's the only declared candidate to replace Barnaby Joyce who stepped down over a personal scandal involving an affair, a pregnancy, and a sex harassment accusation.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has cancelled a planned visit the White House, after another bad phone call with the orange clown Donald Trump, who insisted that Mexico pay for his idiotic border wall.  Pena Nieto has made it clear that's not going to happen in the sharp and adversarial 50 minute phone call last Tuesday.  The Washington Post had reported that Trump threw a temper tantrum.

Japanese police are questioning an American after a woman's severed head was found in the condo he was renting in Osaka.  The woman had gone missing earlier and CCTV footage showed her entering the building with Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar - but never leaving.  The suspect was seen leaving the building with a duffel bag on a few occasions and visiting various places around the Kansai area.

UK actor Emma Chambers, best known for playing the wacky character Alice Tinker in the long-running TV show "The Vicar of Dibley", has died aged 53. 
Emma Chambers
"Vicar" executive producer Jon Plowman said she "was a gifted comic actress who made any part she played - no matter how ditzy or other worldly - look easy".  Chambers also played Hugh Grant's sister in the hit romantic comedy "Notting Hill".  The cause of death was reported as "natural causes" or a heart attack.

Indian movie star Sridevi is dead at age 52.  The mega-star reportedly collapsed while on holiday in Dubai with her family, and EMTs were not able to revive her.  Her family said she had no history of heart trouble.  Sridevi ruled Bollywood during the 1980s and had worked in cinema across languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada in her career spanning almost five decades.
Sridevi
Sridevi's body was flown by private jet back to India for a funeral planned in Mumbai.