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A judge sentenced the former team doctor of USA Gymnastics to 40 to 175 years in prison for medical molesting young girls under the guise of treatment.  "You do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again," said Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said in the Ingham County, Michigan, "I signed your death warrant."  It followed an unprecedented sentencing hearing in which scores of current and former gymnasts, including Olympic medalists, lambasted him.  Nassar was already sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on child pornography counts, and faces trial in another county of Michigan.  Gymnasts said Nassar manipulated the girls, offering them kind words when the coaches were being particularly rough or abusive, gaining their trust to sexually assault them. 

The US says it killed up to 150 militants in an air strike on a so-called Islamic State headquarters in Syria.  A statement said the strikes took place on Saturday near al-Shafah, in the Middle Euphrates river valley in the south-eastern province of Deir al-Zour.  IS didn't confirm the attack, instead claiming that seven women were among 15 people killed in a bombing in the vicinity.

IS claimed responsibility for an attack on the Jalalabad offices of the charity Save the Children.  At least 25 others were wounded when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside the headquarters of the international charity in eastern Afghanistan.  Save the Children said it was suspending its operations in Afghanistan until it was safe to resume work.

Seasoned US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned in protest from an international advisory panel on the Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a "whitewash and a cheerleading operation" for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.  At least 700,000 members of the Muslim minority group were forced from their homes in Myanmar's Rakhine state to refugee camps in Bangladesh under the pretense they were "illegal immigrants" - despite living in Myanmar for centuries.  Richardson says Suu Kyi is being fed bad information by sycophants:  "She blames all the problems that Myanmar is having on the international media, on the U.N., on human rights groups, on other governments" instead of on her own military and populist mobs attacking the Rohingya.

A Brazilian court sabotaged ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's political comeback, upholding an earlier conviction for corruption imposed last July.  Lula, who left office with a record approval rating of 83 percent because of his successful Socialist policies that ended extreme poverty in the South America country, had been the favorite to win the presidential election in October.  But while he could appeal this ruling to the high court, it's doubtful it would be resolved in time for the election.  Brazil's current president was not elected - Michel Temer was appointed by a cabal of conservative legislators after after President Dilma Rousseff, Lula's political heir, was impeached over an accounting error that even the right-wing coup plotters acknowledged isn't a crime.

Lula and his supporters maintain that the conviction was politically motivated:  "It's a coup," said Simon Zanardi of the Oil Workers Trade Union, "Lula will be convicted because they know that if he runs for president, democracy will be restored in Brazil and workers will again be in power."  The Workers' Party has no "plan B" - officials say if Lula is not allowed to run, party activists will take to the streets to defend what's left of Brazil's shattered democracy from right-wing attacks.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is calling for early presidential elections, taking advantage of disarray in the conservative opposition.  Asking voters for another six year term, Maduro said:  "It's the right decision.  Imperialism and the right were plotting to take over the economy."  Some opposition leaders are in jail for stoking violence in the anti-government protests over the past few years, others have gone into voluntary exile, and yet others are just unpopular because low income Venezuelans don't believe massive deregulation and tax cuts for the rich will help them.