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In a special meeting of the UN Security Council, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said North Korea was "begging for war" and urged the body to adopt the strongest sanctions measures possible to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program.  "Enough is enough," she said, "We have taken an incremental approach, and despite the best of intentions, it has not worked."  The US, Ms. Haley explained, would circulate a draft resolution specifying whatever these sternest of measures would be, and put them up for a vote next week.  "China will never allow chaos and war" in Korea, said Beijing's UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi.  Russia's Vassily Nebenzia countered that UN Sanctions alone will not solve the crisis.  North Korea says it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on Sunday, which would be a significant advance in the country's nuclear weapons development. 

South Korea's defense minister suggested the US could deploy "tactical nuclear weapons" on its soil in response to the growing threat from North Korea.  "The redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons is an alternative worth a full review," said Song Young-moo, while describing a conversation he had with his American counterpart James "Mad Dog" Mattis.  Song is echoing a position closely associated with South Korea's far right, not with progressives like his boss President Moon Jae-in.  The US removed tactical nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula in 1991 as part of the wind down from the Cold War.

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Shyte, are we really going to blow up the world because of two tubby, emotionally disturbed autocrats with terrible haircuts?

It's time for Myanmar's de facto ruler Aung San Suu Kyi to "step in" and protect the Rohingya minority from a "really grave" campaign of violence and killings, according to the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar.  Yanghee Lee says Ms. Suu Kyi needs to act as "we would expect from any government, to protect everybody within their own jurisdiction".  Suu Kyi was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for defying the former military government, living under house arrest for years for her pro-democracy activism.  As the leader of the new ruling party, she is seen as the country's leader - but she has been conspicuously silent about the plight of the Rohingya. 
Aung San Suu Kyi (l), Malala Yousafzai (r)
"The world is waiting and Rohingya Muslims are waiting," said Suu Kyi's fellow Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who described the treatment of Myanmar's Muslims as "shameful".

Meanwhile, 30,000 Rohingya refugees are trapped on the Myanmar side of the border - and unless Suu Kyi steps up, there's no aid coming to help them.  The UN was forced to stop deliveries because Myanmar has blocked all aid agencies from delivering vital supplies of food, water, and medicine.  More than 73,000 have fled across the border to escape the violence by Myanmar's army and civilian mobs, which heated up on 25 August when Rohingya militants attacked police stations.  The Rohingya is a Muslim minority in Myanmar.  Despite living there for several generations, the government considers them Bangladeshis, while Bangladesh considers them Burmese.

A UN panel accuses Burundi authorities of human rights crimes and is asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague to open an investigation.  Since 2015 - when President Pierre Nkurunziza ran for a third term in office, which opponents said was unconstitutional - government forces have cracked down and forced 400,000 from their homes.  The panel had to interview more than 500 victims of torture and beatings outside Burundi because they were forbidden entry.

Kenya will rerun its presidential election on 17 October.  The country's high court invalidated last month's election for alleged vote fraud, which wasn't witnessed by the numerous international mediators who monitored the election.

Uruguan and Italian cops arrested one of Italy's most wanted mafia bosses after more than two decades on the lam.  Rocco Morabito was picked up in a luxury hotel in Montevideo.  The 50-year old is the boss of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, and is known as the "Cocaine King of Milan", convicted of bringing in a ton of blow to the Italian financial capital.  Morabito faces 30 years in prison.

With fewer than two days before Pope Francis is to visit Colombia, the Communist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group has agreed to a four-month ceasefire.  The Pope played a key role in getting the Marxist FARC to come in from the jungles and enter the political process as a regular political party.  The ELN is now in negotiations with the government to follow that lead.