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International aid is starting to increase into Ecuador, three days after a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake shattered coastal towns and villages.  Oxfam is working on providing clean, potable water for the area; The UN World Food Program is sending in food and kit for 8,000 people; the charity "Save The Children" is enacting plans to allow kids in the ravaged zone to continue going to school.  The earthquake left at least 443 people dead, more than 4,000 injured, and 231 missing.  Rescuers continue to dig through debris and collapsed buildings, but hopes of finding any more survivors are rapidly dwindling.

The earthquakes in southwestern Japan sent 110 people to prison:  Kumamoto Prison opened its martial arts dojo to people left homeless by last week's strong earthquakes.  The gym is separated from the rest of the long-term maximum security facility by a security fence, and Japanese prisoners are probably way too polite for a riot, anyway.  More than 90,000 people are packed into 600 or so emergency shelters.

The Afghanistan Taliban opened its spring offensive with a suicide bombing in Kabul that killed 28 people and injured more than 300.  The bomber struck in the morning rush in Pul-e-Mahmud, a busy central neighborhood in the Afghan capital with the Ministry of Defense, as well as many homes, mosques, schools, and businesses.  A second attacker engaged police in a gun battle.

Egypt quickly arrested and charged a police officer who shot and killed a tea vendor and wounded two more people in a squabble over the price of a cup.  Witnessed gathered around the man's body before breaking out into chants of, "The Police are thugs," and chasing cops before a riot squad restored an uneasy calm.  People in Cairo and beyond are growing more angry with police violence, which seems to be increasing this year.

An Israeli court convicted the nationalist dirtbag who led the abduction and burning to death of a Palestinian teen in 2014.  The judge rejected 31-year-old Yosef Haim Ben David's plea of insanity and will sentence him next month; Ben David's two teenage accomplices are already in jail.  In July 2014, they kidnapped 16-year old Mohammad Abu Khdair in retaliation for the murders of three Israeli teens in the occupied West Bank, a key event in the cycle of violence that led to the highly destructive war in Gaza.

Germany has opened the hate speech trial of 43-year old far-right leader Lutz Bachmann, founder of the Pegida movement holds large protests in the eastern part of the country to oppose Islamic immigration.  Bachmann has referred to refugees as "cattle", "scumbags", and "filth" in his social media postings.  Meanwhile, the rightwing Alternative for Germany political party is under fire for declaring itself to be anti-Islam.  "It is the first time since Hitler's Germany that there is a party which discredits and existentially threatens an entire religious community," said Aiman Mazyek, the chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany. 

German anti-terror cops raided a far-right group in Dresden, arresting four men and a woman accused of attacking migrant hostels and plotting far-right, anti-immigrant terror.  Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere calls it a "powerful blow to a regional right-wing terrorist group".

Cops in Zambia have arrested more than 250 people to quell xenophobic rioting in the African nation's capital.  It started with rumors that Rwandans were behind several recent gruesome murders in which body parts were removed from the victims, and wound up with rioters looting more than 60 stores and businesses owned by Rwandans.  The insanity comes as a shock to Zambians who've never seen such anti-foreigner sentiment in their country.

84-year old Raul Castro will remain head of the Cuban Communist Party for another five years.  That decision announced at the party's five-year conference in Havana.  He'll step down as President in 2018, but since the role of party leader is more powerful, it appears the Castro brothers aren't relinquishing power just yet.  Raul did, however, recommend that his successors set age limits on holding office.  But older brother Fidel Castro appears to have made his farewell address to the conference.  "I'll be 90 years old soon," Castro said in his most extensive public appearance in years. "Soon I'll be like all the others," he said exhorting his successors to maintain and grow his revolutionary ideals of universal healthcare and education while opposing gouging and profiteering (of course, critics would say that it came with a price of a lot of repression).