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China has re-sentenced a Canadian man convicted of drug smuggling, increasing the punishment from 15-years in prison to death.  Authorities arrested Robert Lloyd Schellenberg in 2014 for allegedly planning to import into China 227 kilograms of methamphetamine.  "I am not a drug smuggler.  I came to China as a tourist," said Schellenberg, who has ten days to appeal.  This comes weeks after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, a top official at Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, on a warrant from the US.  She's free in Vancouver, but under constant surveillance, as a judge decides whether to extradite her to the US.  Schellenberg's death sentence is a significant escalation of the diplomatic row between Beijing and Ottawa, and is condemned by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Gdansk, Poland Mayor Pawel Adamowicz has died in hospital, hours after being viciously stabbed by an ex-con while onstage at a charity concert.  Doctors operated for five hours and used 41 units of blood to try and keep the popular politician alive, but the injuries were too great - the knife reported pierced the Mayor's heart, aorta, and diaphragm.  Pawel Adamowicz was first elected in 1998 and returned to office over and over, buoyed by his personal charm and Liberal social policies such as supporting LGBT and immigrant rights.  So popular in Gdansk was he that his former political party, the centrist Civic Platform, endorsed him for reelection even after he became an independent.  The assassin, a convicted bank robber, blamed Civic Platform for sending him to prison.

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says there must be an election if Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal fails in Parliament on Tuesday, as it is widely expected to do.  After delaying the vote from last month to try and round up more support, she urged MPs to give the deal yet one more "second look", and warned of history's disapproval if they allow the UK to crash out of the European Union without a deal to ease the way.  Mr. Corbyn replied she had "completely and utterly failed"; the Scottish National Party said Ms. May was "in fantasy land and the government should stop threatening no-deal". 

The parents of Sydney student Max Meyer allege that an Austrian ski patrol triggered the avalanche that killed the 16-year old.  The family had been skiing off-piste at St. Anton am Arlberg, when they contacted the ski patrol for isntructions on how to get out of a narrow valley.  In a statement, Thomas Meyer and Julie Schatz said, "In the process of the ski patrol trying to reach us by skiing down from above us on the opposite side of the valley, an avalanche was triggered which engulfed us and tragically led to the death of our son Max."  They thanked Austrian officials for the "best efforts" to resuscitate Max.  St. Anton mountain rescue manager, Kurt Huettl say the tragic episode is still under investigation.  

Indonesian searchers have retrieved the "black box" voice recorder from Lion Air Flight JT610 which crashed off the coast of Jakarta in October.  All 189 people on board died in the crash on 29 November 2018.  The searchers found the flight data recorder last November.