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Iceland this week became the first Western capitalist country to require men and women be paid equally for equal work.  The new law, which came into force on Monday, requires companies and government agencies with at least 25 workers to provide proof of their equal pay policies.  Those that don't face fines.  Dagny Osk Aradottir Pind of the Icelandic Women's Rights Association said the new, stricter law was necessary because "We have had legislation saying that pay should be equal for men and women for decades now but we still have a pay gap".  Iceland hopes to have salaries equalized by 2020.

South Korea is proposing high-level talks with North Korea next week about Pyongyang's participation in the upcoming Winter Olympics in the South.  This comes after north Korean leader Kim Jong-un read a New Year's address with some nuclear blowhardism, but also containing an opening for new discussions.  South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myong-gyon said the tanks could take place at the Panmunjom peace village on the border.  He also offered hope that military drills could be pushed back until after the Olympics, to deescalate tensions on the peninsula. 

The US belittled South Korea's drive for peaceful solutions, saying Washington would not take planned talks between North and South Korea seriously unless Pyongyang takes steps to give up its nuclear weapons.  "We hear reports that North Korea might be preparing for another missile test," said US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, "I hope that doesn't happen.  But if it does, we must bring even tougher measures to bear against the North Korean regime."  In the last week, evidence emerged that ships from China and Russia have been undermining those sanctions by supplying banned oil to North Korea via clandestine transfers in international waters.

Pakistan summoned US Ambassador David Hale to discuss "incomprehensible" tweets from the orange clown, who accused Pakistan of "lies and deceit" in the war on terror.  National Security Committee (NSC) of civilian and military chiefs said Trump's accusations "contradicted facts manifestly, struck with great insensitivity at the trust between two nations built over generations, and negated the decades of sacrifices made by the Pakistani nation".  Trump thinks Pakistan has been holding back, Pakistan notes that it has provided the US with bases, communications, and other assistance.  Beijing immediately jumped to Pakistan's defense:  "We have said many times that Pakistan has put forth great effort and made great sacrifices in combating terrorism," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, "It has made a prominent contribution to global anti-terror efforts."  In other words, China is more than happy to wield the influence that Trump seems intent on squandering.

Iran's supreme leader has made his first comments on what is now six days and nights of protests against his government.  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed Iran's "enemies" and outside "infiltrators" for stirring up the protests.  The latest demonstrations in Tehran were not as large as in past days, but the death toll has climbed to 21 lives lost in clashes. 

At least 25 people are dead in Pasamayo, Peru, after a bus plunged off of La Curva De Diablo (The Devil's Curve) on a coastal road.  It landed upside down on a rocky Pacific Ocean beach 100 meters below.

A Japanese woman and a local climbing guide are dead in an accident on South Africa's Table Mountain, a steep and rock cliff face near Cape Town.  A third climber, also a Japanese woman, was seriously injured and rescued after a difficult effort that involved dropping down to her level from the mountain's cable car service.  She was finally taken to hospital well after midnight.  The accident apparently stranded other tourists on Table Mountain, who also had to be rescued.

Cambodian police charged 69-year-old Australian James Bernard King for allegedly detaining his girlfriend, her sister and niece, and the sister's children in his home and demanding sex of the women.  Police extricated him after a ten hour standoff. 

In Japan, a self-serving American (yep) YouTube star named Logan Paul went to the infamous "Suicide Forest" Aokigahara near Mount Fuji and uploaded video of a dead person and made jokes, which was then seen around the world.  The twerp later apologized and ret-conned his intentions, claiming he was doing it for suicide awareness.  The reaction has been overwhelmingly negative, and few appear to buy into this apology.  People who've survived the suicides of loved ones were particularly appalled, and Mr. Paul's social media accounts have been inundated with insults and anatomically impossible suggestions of things to do with his jokes.

I guess no one in the world media is going to talk about the extremely alarming site of thousands of fascist scum and their indoctrinated children in a torchlight march in Kiev, Ukraine to honor World war II criminal Stepan Bandera, who killed 50,000 Jews.  Because for some reason the West threw its chips in behind Ukraine, and now we don't want to talk about this awesomely huge mistake?

Drunk driver crashes his rented and extremely expensive Audi R8 in Bradford, UK.