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Russian cops conducted mass arrests at anti-Putin rallies, and took opposition leader Alexei Navalny into custody.  Thousands in Moscow and other cities loudly shouted "Free Russia" or "Russia without Putin", trashing the upcoming presidential elections as rigged.  Mr. Navalny was ruled ineligible to run because of a corruption conviction he and Western supporters maintain was politically-motivated.  Most candidates who have been approved are jokes, and no threat to Vladimir Putin's quest to continue his 18 year rule.  Navalny is calling on his supporters to boycott the election, scheduled for 18 March.

A teenage girl and a baby are among the seven survivors plucked from the Pacific Ocean after a passenger ferry in Kiribati apparently sank.  There is no sign of other survivors from the MV Butiraoi, a 17.5-metre wooden catamaran that left Nonouti Island bound for South Tarawa on 18 January.  An estimated 50 people were on that boat.  The survivors have been transferred to a fishing boat that will stay in the area and coordinate teh search for other possible survivors.

The death toll in the Kabul Ambulance Bomb attack has been raised to 103 lives lost.  The Taliban claimed responsibility for the cowardly attack, which injured 235 people, including 30 police officers.  The Afghan government declared a national day of mourning.

Italy's Coast Guard coordinated the rescues of more than 800 refugees from Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, all packed aboard death-trap dinghies and other rickety vessels by human traffickers.  Medecins Sans Frontiers reports another 80 were recovered from a sinking rubber boat late on Sunday.  Seven children who had water in their lungs were taken by helicopter to the nearest hospital that could treat them, located in Tunisia.

The orange clown Donald Trump's threatened cut to aid to the Palestinians could set up Israel for a security crisis, says Israeli military officials.  They fear the chain reaction if Washington stops payments to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees:  An economic, health, and education collapse in Palestinian territories would lead to a new uprising, they told the Haaretz newspaper.  At the same time cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security agencies (not to mention tips from the 30,000 UNRWA workers) would dry up, turning a manageable security situation into chaos.

Israeli officials are blasting Poland's right-wing government for legislation passed on Friday that would make it a crime to blame Poles for the Holocaust, specifically outlawing the phase "Polish Death Camp".  "The timing of the bill - the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day - was particularly surprising and unfortunate," said the Israeli foreign ministry in a statement, suggesting Warsaw was engaged in Holocaust denial.  Millions of Jews were murdered in camps run by nazi Germany in Poland after it was invaded in 1939, with an uncomfortable number of Poles collaborating.  "Every crime, every offense must be condemned, denounced, must be examined and exposed," said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad is dead at age 91.  There are unconfirmed reports the funeral has been postponed because the casket didn't come with the right parts and the lid doesn't close right.  Nah, not really.  Describing the billionaire as "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century", Ikea said that Mr. Kamprad had "peacefully passed away at his home".  He is said to have gotten the idea of mass producing flat-pack furniture after watching staff at one of his earlier stores disassemble a table to make it fit into a customer's car.  Kamprad had said that the "greatest mistake" of his life was his association with nazi collaborators from 1942 to 1945.  But in 2010 he sang the praises of Swedish nazi and anti-semite Per Engdahl and intelligence filed declassified in 2011 revealed Kamprad was an active nazi recruiter during the war and maintained fascist contacts long after it was over.

Do those last two stories give the impression that World War II still isn't freaking over?