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Tokyo authorities arrested Nissan Motors chief Carlos Ghosn and a board member after a company investigation pointed to alleged massive embezzlement.

While British PM Theresa May faces a rough road selling the Brexit deal at home - Labour will vote against it - there's a spanner dangling over the works on the continent.  Spain is threatening to oppose the deal unless it gets assurances that the deal would not impact Gibraltar, which it maintains hat Gibraltar is not part of the UK.  The territory's future must be a separate negotiation between Madrid and London; "Until that's clear in the exit text and the political declaration over the future relationship, we won't be able to agree to it," said Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell.

A group of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea are refusing to leave a cargo ship after it docked in Libya, from where they were trying to escape.  The groups, said to be from sub-Saharan African and South Asia, told journalists they would rather die than be forced to go back to Libya, where smugglers and criminals abduct and torture migrants, and have actually been caught selling them as slaves.  Many have lost family members to the criminal chaos in Libya; others have been terribly injured and were hoping for treatment in Europe.  "Under international law, no-one should be sent to a place where their life is at risk," said the rights group Amnesty International.

Nine pro-democracy activists pleaded not guilty to "public nuisance" charges from Hong Kong's "umbrella" protests four years ago.  At the height of the protests, thousands of demonstrators paralyzed parts of the bustling city, demanding to be allowed to vote for their own leader.  Ultimately, Beijing asserted its control and appointing its own choice to govern the city.  "What is on trial is not just the nine of us," said defendant and University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai, "What is on trial also is the high degree of autonomy and the rule of law that all Hong Kong people are entitled to." 

Peru's former president Alan Garcia is requesting asylum at the Uruguayan embassy in Lima after a court barred him from leaving the country.  Uruguay is still considering the request.  Mr. Garcia led the country from 185 to 1990, and again from 2006 to 2011.  Prosecutors say he accepted bribes from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht in exchange for government contracts to build a rail line in the capital.  Odebrecht is implicated in pay-to-play schemes worth billions of dollars on four continents.

The White House backed down a second time and said it would fully reinstate the media credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.  A federal court already ordered this last week, but the White House on Monday threatened to revoke his press pass again, and so CNN called for an emergency hearing.  The Trump Administration wants to banish Mr. Acosta, claiming his direct and confrontation style as disrespectful of the office of the president.  CNN and a dozen other major news organization says that's a blatant violation of both the First and Fifth Amendments to the US Constitution.

All this comes after a bizarre but par-for-the-course weekend in which Donald Trump: Insulted the military General behind the capture of Saddam Hussein and killing of Osama bin Laden; referred to the fire-ravaged town of Paradise, California as "Pleasure"; claimed that Finland doesn't have forest fires because they rake the leafs, which Finland's president was forced to deny; attempted to taunt a Congressional critic by mispronouncing his name to sound like the American pronunciation of "shyte"; baselessly cast doubt on the CIA's assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman ordered the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi; came up with lame excuses for avoiding memorials to fallen US troops in France and at Arlington National Cemetery; and called himself an A+ president.  In the midst of that cacophony, not one thing was done for the American people nor for the well-being of the world.

Toronto police arrested six former students of a prestigious all-boys Roman Catholic prep school for sexually assaulting one classmate and viciously beating another.  Both were captured on video that was posted to the Internet; both happened when the victims were only partially clothed in the locker room at St. Michael's College School.  Investigators say the incidents started as hazing before veering into the "criminal arena".  

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has scrapped three riot control water cannons purchased by his predecessor Boris Johnson after unrest in the British capital in 2011.  But the UK government banned them, citing safety risks while noting that blasting your own citizens with high pressure water cannons could be counterproductive.  Ultimately, Boris's boondoggle cost taxpayers more than 300,000 Pounds - because after years of looking for a buyer, Khan was finally forced to sell them for scrap.