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New South Wales police arrested a young boy for putting sewing needles inside strawberries.  He confessed to doing this as a prank and is not believed to be the culprit behind other fruit contaminations in the nation:  "What we've seen in this state we believe is the work of copycats and pranksters," said NSW Police's Stuart Smith.  The boy is believed to be the first person arrested since people started finding needles stuck in punnets of strawberries; he's not being identified because of his age.

Not popular:  The decision by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to kick the embattled domestic spy chief upstairs instead of sacking him outright is getting a lot of criticism.  Critics said Hans-Georg Maassen had to go because he failed to curb right-wing violence, and even passed information on to a far-right political party.  But promoting him to the interior ministry and giving him a raise was not what they had in mind.  The clumsy handling of the Maassen affair has spread discontent in the ruling coalition, which polls say would bleed votes to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Die Linke (The Left), and The Greens in any new elections.

Police in western Germany halted an operation to evict environmentalist protesters from treehouses after a journalist fell to his death.  The activists have been up in the trees for six years trying to save one of the last bits of the Hambach Forest in the west from being plowed under in favor of a mine.  Police have spent days evicting the protesters, but claim they weren't there when the man fell out of one of the tree houses, 40 meters straight down.  The landowner wants to stat clear-cutting trees next month.

North Korean's Kim Jong-un has agreed to shut one of the country's main missile testing and launch sites in the presence of foreign experts - "if" the United States takes reciprocal action.  Kim hosted his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang, and the two announced the progress after friendly talks.  Kim and Moon vowed to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula once and for all, and they also announced an upcoming fourth summit to take place in Seoul.

India is outlawing the "triple talaq" divorce, a year after a court declared the Muslim folk practice unconstitutional.  Men who attempt their wives by repeating the Arabic word for divorce three times will be eligible for a three year prison term.  Muslims make up 15 percent of India's population of 1.32 billion people - and although hardly all of them recognize the "triple talaq" custom, critics say the government is infringing on religious rights.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has long criticized the practice as contrary to womne's rights and dignity.

Malaysian authorities have once again arrested ex-prime minister Najib Razak on new charges related to the 1MDB scandal.  The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said the new charges relate to the transfer of money from the national development fund into his personal account, and abuse of power.  More than a billion dollars went missing from 1MDB during Najib's time in office.

The American who created the 3-D printed gun fled to Taiwan after being arrested in Texas on charges of having sex with an underage prostitute.  Austin Police are working with Taipei authorities to locate and extradite 30-year old Cody Wilson, who absconded after posting bail last month.  Wilson's detractors say he is making the world considerable less safe by releasing his plans to create guns on 3-D printers, which can be used to skirt local or national gun control laws.

Paraguay suspended three judges who gave an easy sentence to a Catholic priest convicted of molesting a 14-year old child - a suspended two-year jail sentence and a US$800 fine.  The parents had been fighting for twelve years to get the priest prosecuted. 

We're waiting to see what the Chicago Roman Catholic Archdiocese is going to do about a pastor who burned a rainbow flag at his church to "exorcise" homosexuality, and declared he takes the Christian Bible literally when it says LGBT people should be "put to death".  His boss Cardinal Blase Cupich is a close associate of Pope Francis, and was hand-picked to lead the important and traditionally progressive archdiocese, and thus this is a clear provocation by the church's right-wing.  Cupich reportedly gave explicit orders to Rev. Paul Kalchik not to burn the flag.