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Best story of the day:  Italian astronaut joins the International Space Space - everyone gets pizza!

Thousands of Catholic School teachers and support staff will stage a four-hour work stoppage in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory today.  The Independent Education Union says this is "in protest against their Catholic employers' refusal to strike a reasonable bargain" over arbitration, after the Catholic employers put an enterprise agreement to a vote without gaining union endorsement.  "This has never been done before in Australian history. Catholic employers are coming for our members' rights and they will not tolerate that. We are urging a no vote," said Union spokesman John Quessy.  The IEU will stage rallies in Sydney, Canberra, Griffith, Wagga Wagga, Albury, Bathurst, Lismore, Wollongong, Armidale, Newcastle, and the Central Coast.

US-trained militarized cops have been forcing people from their homes in Honduras for protesting the obviously-crooked 26 November presidential election.  The Intercept reports police raided a neighborhood where people had been banging on pots and pans - a common Latin American protest called "cacerolazo" - emptying homes, tear-gassing the buildings, and rounding up the occupants for mass arrests.  Still, opposition protesters plan to keep taking to the streets in support of candidate Salvador Nasralla, who leads a broad Left-right coalition against conservative US darling President Juan Orlando Hernandez.  Authorities are still sitting on the results of the election, more than a week after balloting.

California US Senator Dianne Feinstein confirmed that the Senate Judiciary Committee is building a possible obstruction of justice case against Donald Trump - specifically over Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey, "because he did not agree to 'lift the cloud' of the Russia investigation," said Feinstein.  Meanwhile, a Trump attorney is claiming he was the author yesterday's tweet in which Trump pretty much admitted that he knew very early on that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn lied to the FBI, which would be another incident of obstruction.  But multiple legal analysts and critics do not believe this:  "That's a confession of deliberate, corrupt obstruction of justice," said Harvard University constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe.  "(Trump) could be tweeting himself into an obstruction of justice conviction," said former Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter.

Meanwhile, the orange clown Donald Trump trashed his own FBI over its investigation into Russian influence in last year's election.  The moron said agents were "tainted" and "dishonest", and claimed their reputation was "in tatters - worst in history".  He also denied asking James Comey to go easy on Flynn.  And from there it was the usual "fake news" crap with some sprinklings of his obsession with Hillary Clinton. 

A Canadian judge has suspended the province of Quebec's new law banning people from wearing full-face veils when giving or receiving public services.  That is, until the government enacts guidelines for how the law will be applied and how exemptions might be granted.  It's a partial victory for Civil Liberties groups that maintain the ban is unconstitutional and discriminates against Muslim women.

The president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani is apologizing to women for a sexist remark involving the headscarf, known as a chaadar over there:  Critics claim some government officials have links to so-called Islamic State; Mr. Ghani responded that those people should provide evidence or wear a woman's headscarf.  Yeah, not cool.  Ghani claims it's a common expression (so what), and that he is a very prominent advocate of women's rights and has taken unique steps to strengthen and preserve their position since his tenure as the president of Afghanistan".  Which is true, compared to the former Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.

The United Arab Emirates is denying Yemeni rebel claims of shooting a cruise missile at a US$20 Billion nuclear power plant under construction in Abu Dhabi.  "UAE possesses an air defense system capable of dealing with any threat of any kind and the project of Barakah reactor is immune," said the state news agency.  Iran-backed Houthi rebels are fighting for control of Yemen against an air campaign by a coalition of Saudi-backed forces.  

At least 13 people are dead after the collision of a South Korean fishing boat and a tanker ship.  The boat had been carrying passengers on a fishing tour southwest of Incheon, near Yeongheung island.

Detroit planned a big show of the destruction of the decrepit old Pontiac Silverdome, to make way for a shiny new stadium.  The Silverdome had other ideas, and wasn't as decrepit as they thought.