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The United Nations is stepping up pressure on Australia to do something about the refugees languishing in the Manus Island and Nauru detention camps before dealing with the largely-imagined problems of white South African farmers.  "Those who have been forcibly transferred to Papua New Guinea and Nauru under the 'offshore processing' arrangement should be Australia's first priority after almost five years," said United Nations High Commission on Refugees spokesperson Catherine Stubberfield.  But the UNHCR has received no complaints or requests for resettlement from white farmers in South Africa.  Earlier this year, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton put the government in a squeeze by claiming the farmers deserve special attention from a "civilised country"; the government then had to back pedal and claim that Australia doesn't discriminate.

Trump put the brakes on new economic sanctions on Russia.  This comes only a day after his ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley announced the measures to punish Russia for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over the alleged chemical weapons attack that killed dozens outside Damascus earlier this month.  The Russian Foreign Ministry said that after Haley announced on TV that Trump had signed off on puntive measures, he then called Moscow to say the sanctions were not in fact coming.  Backstab!  Sucks to be you, Nikki Haley.

Russia is denying tampering with the site of the chemical weapon attack in Douma, Syria.  A team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been waiting in the capital Damascus for permission to examine the site for evidence.  Douma was a rebel stronghold at the time of the attack on 7 April and is now under the control of the Syrian government and Russian military.  "We are concerned they may have tampered with it with the intent of thwarting the efforts of the OPCW Fact- Finding Mission to conduct an effective investigation," said US enoy to the OPCW Kenneth Ward.  Despite videos of stricken and dead civilians, as well as blood and urine evidence from the victims, Russia and Syria insist not chemical weapon attack took place.

Former FBI Director James Comey says he believed it was possible the Russians "have something" on Trump to pressure him to do the Kremlin's bidding (like for example, not levelling economic sanction in retaliation for supporting a deadly and banned chemical weapon attack).  In a TV interview to promote his tell-all book "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership", Comey said that was something he could not say about any other president.  Comey said Trump was "morally unfit to be president", blasting him for: Mistreating women; falsely equating the neo-nazi scum who rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia with anti-racist protesters; and frequently telling lies about matters large and small.  Comey also said the "central premise" of the Steele Files - that Russia sought to interfere with the 2016 election - had been "corroborated and consistent with utterly independent intelligence".

A Russian journalist is dead after reporting on a bloody clash between Russian mercenaries and US troops in Syria.  Neighbors found Maxim Borodin on the ground outside his apartment five storeys above; he died in hospital.  A friend said that a day earlier, Borodin complained his flat had been surrounded by security men.  Borodin reported that Russian mercenaries called "The Wagner Group" were basically cut to ribbons in a 7 February clash with American troops in Deir al-Zour province, as they teamed with Syrian government troops to take the headquarters of US-backed rebels.  Russia put the casualties at a "couple dozen", and they weren't connected with the Russian military.  But last week, CIA chief Mike Pompeo said that "a couple hundred" Russian mercenaries were killed.