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Elon Musk has apologized for calling a diver involved in last week's Thailand cave rescue a "pedo guy".  The dust up happened last week when Vernon Unsworth went on CNN and belittled the mini-submarine that Musk brought to Thailand to assist rescuers, one that ultimately was not used.  Musk said that while Unsworth provoked him, "his actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and to the companies I represent as leader.  The fault is mine and mine alone."  Unsworth said he was considering legal action.  Tesla investors had pressured Musk to apologize and get back to the business of making solar power systems and electric cars.

The European Union has fined Google $6.85 Billion in an antitrust case for allegedly using its Android operating system to squeeze out competition.  Google said it would appeal the fine, but the EU is threatening even more fines if Google fails to halt other anti-competitive practices in contractual deals with smartphone makers and telecoms providers within 90 days.

Police in Chennai, India arrested 17 men in a heinous rape case that reignited the country's indignation over widespread sexual assaults and seeming official indifference.  Four of the suspects have reportedly confessed to the horror scenario, in which a man drugged an eleven year old girl and invited the rest of the suspects to assault her.  The girl's family took her to an all-female police station to identify the suspects, which included neighbors and security guards.  Authorities are reportedly having a hard time getting defense attorneys, as no lawyer wants to touch the case.

Some Liberal leaders are criticizing a backbencher who told a constituent that Russia's involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 needs to be "looked over" for the sake of good relations.  A Russian Buk missile shot the plane out of the sky over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board - including 38 Australians.  The ABC reports that Anthony Maslin, the Perth father whose three children were killed on MH17, accusing Donald Trump of "kissing the arse" of Russian President Vladimir Putin at their Monday summit.  But backbencher Craig Kelly angered colleagues by telling Mr. Maslin, "We can't fix things that happened in the past, we've got to make sure that the relationships between Russia and the US going forward are the best they can possibly be." 

A US Federal judge has denied bond for Maria Butina, an alleged Kremlin agent accused of infiltrating an American special interest organisation and offering to trade sex for a job.  The organization has not been identified, but Butina was deeply involved with the gun industry lobbying group the National Rifle Association, which champions private ownership of the kind of weapons Russia bans.  The Justice Department says Butina tried to establish "back channel" lines of communication to "penetrate the US national decision-making apparatus".

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If Donald Trump was trying to dispel the notion that he is a Russian intelligence asset under the control of Vladimir Putin, it's not working.  For a third consecutive day, Trump went against his own intelligence agencies in favor of Putin's Russia.  During a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a pool reporter asked Trump whether Russia is still "targeting" the United States.  Looking directly at the reporter, Trump replied: "Thank you very much.  No."  But Trump's own director of national intelligence Dan Coats on Monday said, "We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy."  And before that on Friday, Coats said: "The warning lights are blinking red again," and, "Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack."

In an early morning twitter rant Trump trashed Montenegro, in the process questioning the core value of NATO.  In an interview with Fox News, Trump called his NATO ally "a tiny country" with "very aggressive people" and suggested that the US would not come to Montenegro's defense if it invoked Article Five of the NATO Treaty because "that would lead to World War III".  Article Five is the collective defense agreement that says "if one of us is attacked, we will all respond".  BTW, the only time Article Five has ever been invoked was by the United States in response to the 9/11 attacks, and Montenegro responded by sending troops to Afghanistan to back up the US.
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You may recall that Trump infamously shoved Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at the NATO meeting in May of last year.  What explains Trump's animosity for a country of about 640,000 people tucked into the Balkans along the Adriatic Sea?  Right now, fourteen people are on trial in Montenegro accused of plotting to kill the prime minister and stage a coup to bring a pro-Russian party to power, and prevent the country from joining NATO.  Russia has denied any link to the plot.  But if the US were to violate its NATO treaty obligations, in this case it would make Vladimir Putin very, very happy.

None of this is playing very well in Montenegro.  Former Parliamentary leader and Social Democratic Party chief Ranko Krivokapic told the BBC that Trump is "the strangest president in the history of the United States".  Boris Raonic of the Civic Alliance human rights organization in Montenegro said, "We are used to having (a US president) who unites and promotes Western values," and, "So we get these stupid statements, which clearly show a lack of knowledge and respect for role that the US had until now."