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Despite concessions from President Vladimir Putin, thousands of Russian hit the streets again to protest his plan to raise the retirement age.  The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says Russian men can expect to live an average of 66 years, so raising the pension age from 60 to 65 means that many will literally work until they drop dead.  Putin tried to placate protesters by making the new women's retirement age 63, instead 65 as originally proposed.  "Any further delay would be irresponsible," Putin said on TV last week, "Our decisions should be just and well-balanced."  The new demonstrations show that many do not accept that.  Putin's popularity dipped from 80 percent to 67 percent during the pension row, at least as measured by pro-government state-run media.

Thousands of mourners gathered in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk City to mourn Russian-backed separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko, who was killed in a bomb attack on Friday.  He's the latest and highest-ranking in a series of separatist leaders to die under such circumstances.  Kiev denies responsibility.

Arizona Senator John McCain was buried at the US Naval Academy on Sunday, ending a week of official mourning not seen even for the deaths of most presidents.  A group of US Navy F-18 Super Hornets flew over in a "missing man formation" to honor the Vietnam War veteran.

Syrian state media says an electrical explosion and not an Israeli attack caused the massive explosion seen by thousands at Damascus' Mezzah military airport.  Earlier, an official with a pro-government militia said an Israeli missile fired from the Golan Heights struck a munitions dump at the airport.

The terrorist group Al Shabaab is claiming responsibility for the car bomb near a school in Somali that killed three soldiers and wounded 14 people, including six children.  The soldiers stopped the explosives-packed car outside the gates of a fortified compound, but the school was just on the other side.

South Africa's Solidarity Union will commence three weeks of strikes today in opposition to a scheme that allows only black workers to purchase shares of the Sasol oil company.  Laws drawn up to even out the inequity of the apartheid days require businesses to have a certain level of black ownership, and Sasol aims to meet its obligation by selling shares only to black employees.  Most of Solidarity's 6,300 members are white, and they say the plan is "blatant discrimination".

The father of a young woman murdered in the US heartland state of Iowa is blasting the Trump family for hijacking her memory to push their anti-immigration agenda.  20-year old college student Mollie Tibbetts was found dead earlier this month, weeks after disappearing while jogging.  An undocumented worker (who was employed by a prominent Republican-owned farm) was charged with her murder.  Now, her father Rob Tibbetts was forced to write an editorial in the Des Moines Register newspaper that the Trumps have "chosen to callously distort and corrupt Mollie's tragic death to advance a cause she vehemently opposed".  Days earlier - and against the stated wishes of the Tibbetts family, whom the Trumps have not bothered to contact nor express condolences - Donald Trump Jr. in the same newspaper blamed Democrats for her homicide, calling her a "casualty of the Left's love for open borders".  Rob Tibbetts used Junior's words against him saying that was "despicable" and "heartless" and demanded: "Allow us to grieve in privacy and with dignity.  At long last, show some decency."

The Pentagon has cancelled US$300 Million in military aid to Pakistan over the country's failure to deal with terrorist groups operating within its borders, such as the Haqqani network, IS, and the Taliban.  A spokesman said the aid - which had previously been suspended - will be used elsewhere due to "a lack of Pakistani decisive actions" in tackling terrorism.  Pakistan and its incoming government has not responded.