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Indonesia is banning an ultra-conservative Islamic group because of its role in massive protests against the city's Christian Governor Ahok.  Leaders of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) say the government's decision arbitrary and unconstitutional.  HTI's members have called for jailing Ahok and have put enormous pressure on the judiciary to convict him of blasphemy, the verdict being due today.  HTI claims it opposes violence but does call for ending Indonesia's democracy and replacing it with an Islamic caliphate.

Emmanuel Macron will take over as French President on Sunday after beating far right xenophobe Marine Le Pen in the election over the weekend.  Macron's lead has been increased even further, winning with 66.1 percent to Le Pen's smaller-than-expected 33.9 percent.  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten both sent their congratulations and well wishes to Paris.  The White House gave its tepid congratulations, saying the Trump administration looked forward to working with Macron and "continuing our close cooperation with the French government".  Russian President Vladimir Putin also reached out; both Putin and his boy Trump overtly backed the bigoted Le Pen. 

The former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates testified that she twice warned the Trump administration that its national security advisor Michael Flynn was susceptible to Russian blackmail.  Ms. Yates told the Senate judiciary committee that she met with Trump White House Counsel Donald McGahn on two occasions to spell out that Flynn had left himself "compromised" by having a conversation with the Russian ambassador, and then lying to the Vice President Mike Pence about it.  Flynn was forced to step down from the highly sensitive after less than a month because of his Russian contact, and it has since been learned he has worked for the Turkish government as well. 

But these weren't the only warnings about Michael Flynn expressed to Donald Trump and his team.  Hours before Sally Yates' testimony highlighting the Trump administration's carelessness and incompetence, former Obama administration officials revealed that Barack Obama himself personally warned Trump against hiring Flynn, an account confirmed by White House spokeshobbit Sean "Spicy" Spicer .  Obama had fired already fired Flynn from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 over issues of mismanagement and temperament.  Flynn played a large role in the orange clown's 2016 election campaign.

South African security forces fired rubber bullets at rioters who burned four houses and looted white-owned businesses in a northern farm town.  This followed a court granting bail to two white farmers charged with murdering a 16-year old black youth.  Pieter Doorewaad and Phillip Schutte allegedly assaulted Matlhomola Moshoeu and then threw him out of a moving car; they claim he was stealing sunflowers and jumped from the car as they took him to police (bullshyte).  White property owners in the town of Coligny attacked journalists covering the rioting, accusing them of fanning the flames.  Despite apartheid's end in 1994, racial tensions linger - especially in far-off rural areas where whites own all of the land and businesses.

Anxious parents are slowly learning if their daughters were among the 82 young women released by the Boko Haram over the weekend.  The 82 were among the more than 200 kidnapped from the Chibok boarding school in 2014.  The government put a list of the returnees' names on the internet, but few people in the Chibok area have access.  The wait could be long - a group of 21 girls released last year for some reason are still in military custody.