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A US negotiating team arrived at the Panmunjom treaty village in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea to discuss a possible summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, despite the incredibly weird break up letter the orange clown wrote last week to cancel the meeting.  This comes a day after Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held an unannounced meeting in the village, where Moon said he and Kim had "agreed that the 12 June summit should be held successfully".  Trump claims the date and the location of the summit "haven't changed" despite that letter calling it off. 

But North Korea's biggest protector China is blasting the US for sailing Navy warships near China's bases on disputed islets and reefs in the South China Sea, calling it a "provocation".  The USS Higgins guided-missile destroyer and the USS Antietam a guided-missile cruiser passed within twelve nautical miles of the bases.  "China will continue to take all necessary measures to defend the country's sovereignty and security," the Defense Ministry in Beijing added, without elaborating.

Four Russian troops were killed in battle in eastern Syria, after rebels attacked an artillery battery belonging to Syrian government forces.  Dozens of rebels died in the fight.  Since Russia stepped up its military involvement on behalf of its Syrian ally in September 2015, 92 Russians have died there.

Germany's far-right AfD party tried to hold a rally in Berlin, but were outnumbered four-to-one by counter-protesters.  Around 5,000 AfD activists chanted "Merkel must go" and expressed general contempt for Germany's welcoming attitude towards refugees.  More than 20,000 opponents out-shouted the racists, chanted "Nazis out" and "All Berlin hates the AfD".

Italy's PM-designate Giuseppe Conte has thrown in the towel after just a couple of days of trying to form a government, because the President will not accept his pick to be economy minister.  That would have been 81-year old Euroskeptic hardliner Paolo Savona, who wants to pull the country out of the common currency The Euro - sort of an odd choice, since the populist coalition of the Five Star Movement and the racist, anti-immigrant The League pulled back their anti-Euro platform in order to gain their election victory.  Now, their coalition is already kaput and the far-right is calling for new elections.  Italy's politics are notorious fractious and governments rise and fall there - usually within months.  Voters may have thought that rejecting the traditional right and Left parties would change that.  Nope.  Far-right populism:  It doesn't work.

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says a new, more progressive abortion law will be in place by the end of the year.  This comes after the referendum on scrapping the national abortion ban passed by a two-to-one vote.  Health Minister Simon Harris will seek the cabinet's backing on Tuesday to draft the new legislation.  This will put pressure on UK Prime Minister Theresa May to loosen Northern Ireland's similarly-strict abortion laws.

The first round of Colombia's presidential election is underway, with neither of the top two contenders expected to clear 50 percent.  But conservative Ivan Duque is running ahead of left-winger Gustavo Petro, an ex-guerrilla and former Bogota mayor.  Duque is running as an opponent of the peace deal that ended the Marxist FARC's five decade civil war against the government.

Israel has commenced work on a sea barrier to cut-off Gaza's access to the north.  Designed with Hamas in mind, it consists of a fortified breakwater topped with barbed wire, and is due to be completed by the end of the year.  "This is the only barrier of its kind in the world, which will effectively block the possibility of infiltrating into Israel by sea," said Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.