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Papua New Guinea police are requesting extra officers for the Manus Island detention center, in case Donald Trump backs out of America's commitment to accept 1,250 of the refugees housed there and in Nauru.  Tensions between asylum seekers and locals have been rising for months, and the uncertainty caused by Trump's erratic behavior is making everything worse.  A handful of refugees have taken up the offer to resettle in PNG, rather than wait for Trump to make up his mind.

A US Federal Appeals Court refused an initial bid by the Trump administration to restore its controversial immigration order that had barred refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.  A federal judge in Seattle halted Trump's travel ban last week.  Those travelers, assuming they already had legal documents, can enter the United States at least through later on Monday, when the appeals court will have heard from both sides.  Legal advisors are telling folks with valid green cards to get back to the United States in the window they have available.  The Trump administration seems to be pushing an "imperial presidency" argument, claiming that the judge didn't have the right to second guess the White House.  Actually, it does under the constitutional separation of powers called "checks and balances".

Trump defended Russian President Vladimir Putin when questioned over allegations of murders carried out by the Kremlin regime.  After contentious phone calls with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull and Mexican President Enique Pena Nieto, Trump told a US news interviewer, "There are a lot of killers.  We've got a lot of killers.  What do you think?  Our country's so innocent?"  Trump then said he respected President Putin and would prefer to "get along with him".  So, there you have it:  Yelling at long time ally Australia, sucking up to murderous eastern European dictator.  Oh, and just in case you're hoping that the b-team is any better, Trump's vice president Mike Pence repeatedly dodged similar questions on a Sunday morning news show.

Philippine Roman Catholic Bishops are condemning President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs" for creating a "reign of terror" that has resulted in thousands of killings.  A letter signed by the bishops speaks of the horrors of people being killed for dubious reasons, and no one being held to account; it also notes that most of the killings are taking place disproportionately in poor areas.  Duterte criticized the bishops for being "out of touch" - more than 7,600 people have been killed since Duterte launched his anti-drugs campaign seven months ago.

More than 200,000 people rallied in Bucharest against the Romanian government, despite the government already having backed down from a plan that would have weakened anti-corruption laws and freed some convicted dirty politicians from jail.  Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu had originally attempted to push the plan through without any consultation from parliament, which sparked the largest protests since the overthrow of Nikolae Ceaucescu in 1989.  The protesters appear to no longer trust the PM and are demanding he and his government step down.

Paraguay's anti-establishment protest over the weekend was a little wackier:  Marchers dressed as Zombies to mock the discovery of 300,000 signatures of dead people on petitions to change the law to allow right-wing President Horacio Cartes to run again.  Current law "absolutely forbids" another term.  Protesters compared Cartes to Alfredo Stroessner, the US-backed dictator from 1959 - 1989 who oversaw murders, torture, and repression in the name of anti-Communism. 

Turkish anti-terror cops arrested 445 people for alleged links to the so-called Islamic State.  The raids took place around the country, including the cities of Ankara, Istanbul, and Gaziantep, near the border with Syria. 

More than a hundred people are dead after heavy snow and avalanches in the hills along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.  The worst incident happened in a village on the Afghanistan side, during which 45 people were killed by rumbling snow and debris.