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South Korean left-wing candidate Moon Jae-in won a decisive victory in the country's presidential election.  He's promising to seek better relations with the North and improve the economy and overall employment.  "I will make a just, united country," he said at a victory rally in Seoul, "I will be a president who also serves all the people who did not support me."  Moon will step into the top office of a country in turmoil; the previous president Park Guen-hye was forced from office in a pay-to-play scandal involving the country's biggest corporations that account for much of the economy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will uphold the Paris Climate Accord, as international delegates at a conference in Bonn, Germany worry that the US might pull out of the deal because of the idiot in the White House.  The deal compels signatories to cutting carbon emissions with the aim of limiting global temperature rise to 2 C degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100.  China and others at the Bonn conference are warning the US that pulling out of the Paris agreement will make it difficult for Washington to reach future economic deals at G7 and G20 conferences. 

Donald Trump sinks deeper into the mainstream of the US international security:  The US will provide "limited" arms support to the Kurdish YPG, which has proven to be the most-effective fighting force against the terrorists of the so-called Islamic state in the Syrian Civil War.  The announcement has been delayed for several weeks because Washington's NATO ally Turkey views the Kurds as a separatist group closely linked to the PKK, an internationally designated terror group that has carried out attacks against Turkey.  The US views the two Kurdish groups as distinct organizations.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due in Washington next week, and it probably won't be a happy visit.

The White House is considering a plan to send more US troops into Afghanistan.  National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is recommending sending up to 5,000 troops, who would primarily serve as trainers to Afghan forces who are currently fighting the Taliban.  If approved, this would represent a big change from the quasi-isolationism Trump ran on during the election last year; and a big change from the previous Obama Administration policy of waging peace in Afghanistan instead of war.  The US sent troops into Taliban-ruled Afghanistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks and within a year had facilitated a friendlier government led by Hamid Karzai.  But that government has had little influence outside the capital Kabul, and US troops have been able to cut their numbers but not fully exit Afghanistan.

Israel's longest-running news show marked its last broadcast with a tearful staff singing the national anthem, and critics are blasting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a media power-grab.  The government gave the state-run Israel Broadcasting Authority just hours to shut down "Mabat LaHadashot" (A Glance at the News) after 49 years, as part of "reforms" to create a new replacement organization.  Opponents say Netanyahu pulled the plug because of critical coverage. 

Marion Marechal-Le Pen will not run for re-election in parliamentary polls in June and will quit politics.  This decision is reportedly coming days after her Aunt and leader of her ultra-right Front National party lost big in the Presidential election.  The 29-year old Marion is said to be even more hardline and intolerant than her aunt, so.. good riddance.  Don't let the door hit ya.

German authorities arrested a second soldier in an alleged plot to assassinate a leading public figure; the first soldier arrested is accused of assuming the identity of a Syrian refugee to frame refugees for their planned attacks.  "The accused is strongly suspected of planning a severe act of violence against the state out of a right-wing extremist conviction," said prosecutors.  Targets reportedly included former German president Joachim Gauck and Justice Minister Heiko Maas.  Last weekend, the government ordered urgent inspections of army barracks after finding nazi memorabilia in one.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has gone to Spain for emergency eye surgery.  Twice this year, hooligans doused his face with green antiseptic dye.  The second attacker appears to have mixed a caustic chemical in with the dye.  "Sadly, I've been told I will only recover my sight in several months," Navalny said in an Instagram post which displayed his bloodshot eye and some skin damage.
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Navalny is a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and dirty tricks from dye jobs to actually making opponents die are not uncommon in the Putin age.

A fireworks explosion killed 14 people in Mexico, when someone tossed a lit rocket into a storeroom of a firework business attached to the house of the owner.  At least five children are among the dead, and 20 more people were injured.

When the Nigerian government announced it had secured the release of 82 of the Chibok kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram three years ago, it turned out that the original plan was to have freed 83 young women.  But one of them didn't want to go:  Presidential spokesman said the girl told rescuers, " 'No, I'm happy where I am.  I have found a husband'."  Unexpected.  Of the 276 girl rousted from their beds at the government boarding school in Chibok, Boko Haram is believed to be still holding more than a hundred.

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Deer walks right up to hunters in Indiana, USA, looks them right in the eye.  It's one thing picking them off from hundreds of meters away, it's quite another to look them in the eye, ain't it now?