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Italy's new Interior Minister is suggesting his country will cease its welcoming attitude towards immigrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Africa and the Middle East.  Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party visited Sicily, declaring that the island must stop being "the refugee camp of Europe".  He insisted the new government's plans to deport migrants and block new arrivals were were not "hard line", but, "common sense".  At the same time, dozens were drowning as a migrant boat with 180 people on board capsized off the southern coast of Tunisia.  It's not clear how many were rescued.

Slovenia's snap elections are returning nebulous results.  The anti-immigrant, right-wing SDS party is in first place, but with only 25 percent of the vote.  Four left or center-left parties have polled from nine percent to 13 percent each, which would make it tough for the SDS to form a coalition.  The SDS openly support Hungary's xenophobic PM Viktor Orban, who has been accused of hacking away at democratic institutions in his country.

German police shot and wounded a knife-wielding Austrian man who went on a rampage in Berlin's Dom Cathedral, describing the 53-year old more as a "hooligan" than a "terrorist".  No one else was hurt.

Two people were killed in Nicaragua ended a siege by opposition forces at a church in the city of Masaya.  Government forces got control after the local Catholic Church intervened, also calling on President Daniel Ortega to call off his crackdown on growing opposition protests.  The protesters say the plan, as it has in every other country, harm the poor and middle class.  King Abdullah is calling for compromise.

Protests are also getting bigger in Jordan, normally one of the Middle East's most stable.  For three nights, people have poured out into Amman's streets to oppose a rising taxes and austerity measures prescribed by the congenital screw-ups at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the same geniuses that haven't solved any economic problem with austerity from Greece to Portugal to anywhere in Africa and beyond.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will make a state visit to North Korea, marking the first time North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hosted a head of state since assuming power in 2011.  It's not clear if this will be before or after Kim's summit with the orange clown Donald Trump on 12 June in Singapore.  Syria and North Korea have been accused of collaborating to develop banned chemical weapons.

DR Congo health officials have identified five new Ebola infections.  The UN World Health Organization and local authorities are rushing to contain the outbreak that has sickened more than 50 people in recent weeks, with 25 dead.  The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres opened a new treatment center in Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur province, to treat those sicked.

And now...

Well-known UK conservative historian and pundit Niall Ferguson was forced to resign a Stanford University panel on free speech after being caught red-handed conspiring with right-wing students to conduct "opposition research" on a Left-wing student.  The plot was detailed on leaked emails in which the conspirators actually and unironically used comic book villain language to whinge about their Left wing nemeses, plotting "the more subtle game of grinding them down on the committee," and projecting, "Slowly, we will continue to crush the left's will to resist, as they will crack under pressure."  Seriously, these arse-clowns were probably wearing dark robes and rubbing their fingers together like Mr. Burns on "The Simpsons". 

The Left-wing student they wanted to target is an exemplary middle-class kid from Pasadena, California, who got on their radar because he opposed a campus forum for racist authors.  Ferguson, who has advised British PMs and US Republican Party presidential campaigns, later wrote: "I need to grow up and keep out of student politics, no question.  But the context is important.  Conservatism is on the brink of extinction in much of academia, especially in history.  This isn't healthy."  Weird.