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Russia blocked an attempt on the United Nations Security Council to condemn Syria for the chemical weapon attack on civilians in the rebel-held village of Khan Shaykhun last week.  Ten countries voted in favor of the text.  Bolivia also voted "no", probably just to spite the US.  China, which had blocked previous US attempts to sanction Syria abstained.  Interestingly, Russian ally and former Soviet state Kazakhstan also abstained, as did Ethiopia. 

Earlier, Russian president Vladimir Putin held an icy meeting with former BFF and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and it's looking like there won't be any breakthrough in Tillerson's Moscow visit.  "There is a low level of trust between the two countries," Tillerson said.  "The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship."  Tillerson told Putin that the Syria issue has put bilateral relations at a low point.

In another example of Donald Trump's mental state and sense of personal privilege, the orange clown merrily told Fox Business News how he informed visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping that he had just ordered a missile strike at Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun gas attack:  Over "the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen" served at his private resort in Florida.  Trump recalled details of his dessert, but got the details of the strike incorrect.  He recalled telling Mr. Xi that the 59 missiles were heading towards "Iraq", and giddy and fawning Fox employee Maria Bartiromo corrected him by saying, "Syria." 

President Xi placed a phone call to Trump to urge a peaceful resolution to rising tensions with North Korea.  A Chinese state-run newspaper said that the peninsula was as close to a shooting war as it was in 2006 when North Korea exploded its first nuclear device.  The US sent the naval battle group led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to the the Sea of Japan as North Korea conducts missile tests and is reportedly close to testing another nuclear device.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is preparing a report on a "serious" incident on a Melbourne-to-Hong Kong flight last week.  Qantas Flight QF29 experienced violent turbulence called a "stick shaker warning", indicating the Boeing 747 was on the verge of a stall just 100 kilometers from its destination.  "Fifteen passengers received minor injuries," as the plane shook for two minutes according to the ATSB's statement.  

United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz says he will not resign over the uproar over a man who was dragged off a plane by airport officers in Chicago, and the lousy way the airline initially handled the fallout.  Munoz apologized for a third time to Dr. David Dao, who was roughed up and bloodied by Chicago Department of Aviation cops for refusing to give up his pre-paid seat to a United employee.  Dao has since hired some lawyers who will likely rough up United should a lawsuit get to court.  Munoz also said that the airline will no longer use police to remove overbooked passengers.  Which, you gotta wonder why police were violently enforcing corporate practices that should be illegal.

German police detained a suspect in the bombing of the Borussia Dortmund football team bus.  The suspect reportedly has Islamist links, although his motive hasn't been established.  Dortmund did finally get to play its quarter-final first-leg against Monaco, losing to the French 3-2.

A Brazilian judge has released a list of politicians to be investigated for corruption, and one-third of unelected president Michel Temer's cabinet is on it, including chief of staff Eliseu Padilha.  The former mayor of Rio de Janeiro during last year's Olympics debacle is also targeted.  The list was delayed for four months after the previous judge on the case died in a plane crash in January.

South African President Jacob Zuma says he's "not attached" to his job and could step down tomorrow, if that is what the African National Congress (ANC) party wants.  Zuma's government is bogged down in corruption and even some close friends have joined party dissidents calling on him to quit for sacking the country's respected Finance Minister.  At his 75th birthday party Zuma said, "I want to tell you my friends that if you want me to step don tomorrow, I will.  I will be ANC until I die."

Marvel Comics sacked the artist who draws the X-Men comics for some pretty ugly hidden political and religious references.  Ardian Syaf said he did it out of love for his version of religion and acknowledges his career is over.  One panel shows the character Colossus wearing a t-shirt marked "QS 5:51" - a Quran verse that reads, "O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies."  It's believed to be a negative reference to Jakarta's Christian governor.  Another panel shows the Jewish leader of the X-men Kitty Pryde in front of a jewellery store with only the first three letters of the word clearly visible.  It's pretty amazing that this guy would think that way considering that the X-Men are and always have been allegories for civil rights and tolerance.  Readers caught the bigoted messages, but two more issues with Ardian's "artwork" have already gone to print before Marvel fired Ardian Syaf.