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Two Australians were injured when a large cruise ship bumped into a smaller vessel and the dock at Venice, Italy.  The two were among five women aged 67 to 72 years who were hurt fleeing as the 13-deck MSC Opera experienced an engine failure and plowed into the smaller River Countess tour boat.   The incident may finally get Italy to ban large cruise ships from the Giudecca Canal and Saint Mark's Basin; local complain the big ships have destroyed the quality of life by floating up and dumping thousands of tourists at a time in the historic city center.  Environmentalists say the wake from the large ships have damaged the underwater supports of the buildings and polluted the waters.

India sent two military helicopters to scan the top of Nanda Devi, the country's second tallest peak in the Himalayas, but they did not find a group of nine climbers that includes a Sydney woman.  "The first aerial recce has concluded and one tent was spotted, but there were no signs of human movement," said Vijay Kumar Jogdanda of the Uttarakhand state government.  "It's not looking too good," said Indian air force spokesman Amid Chowdhury.  Sydney woman Ruth McCance and seven other international climbers were being led by famous British mountaineer Martin Moran in an attempt to become the first to reach Nanda Devi's east peak.  They haven't been heard from since 22 May, are at least two days overdue from checking in a base camp, and there was an avalanche in the area they planned to make their ascent.

In very rare comments about the most controversial event in China's recent history, defense minister General Wei Fenghe says the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square was the "correct policy", and the country's "stability" since then proves it.  General Wei's comments at Singapore's Shangri La Dialogue security conference are definitely out of the norm, as Beijing spends a great deal of time and effort censoring any and all mention of the Tiananmen Square uprising three decades ago this week.  In 1989, thousands of pro-democracy protesters flooded the vast space in the Chinese capital calling for change; after a few days, the government sent the People Liberation Army in to brutally crush the demonstration with tanks and live ammunition.  Hundreds or thousands were killed, depending on who's telling the story; thousands were injured.

In Paris this weekend, the Yellow Vest "March of the Mutilated" called public attention to the gruesome injuries caused by police violence in handling the weekly protests against President Emmanuel Macron.  Many of the marchers lost limbs or eyes to police flash grenades; some didn't march at all, but were pushed in the wheelchairs where they'll spend most of their lives.  Junior Interior Minister Laurent Nunez claims the limb-severing bombs are "a vital weapon in situation of rioting and urban violence"; Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz has identified eight cases in which police brutality qualify for legal action.

On the eve of Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, London Mayor Sadiq Khan is blasting Trump as a "20th Century fascist" for his language and behavior at rallies.  Mayor Khan said, "Donald Trump is just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat," along with far right leaders in Europe who are "using the same divisive tropes of the fascists of the 20th century to garner support, but with new sinister methods to deliver their message".  The long-running feud between Trump and the Mayor of the UK's capital is just one chafing point; people from across the political spectrum are angry with Trump's interference in the political process with his near-endorsement of Tory opportunist Boris Johnson, and his retweeting of racists and xenophobes during terrorism crises.  At least 250,000 protesters are expected to turn out in central London on Tuesday to denounce Trump and Trumpism.