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Chile President Michelle Bachelet sent a bill to congress that would legalize same-sex marriages and allow LGBT couples to adopt children.  The country legalized same-sex civil unions in 2015.  "It cannot be that old prejudices are stronger than love," President Bachelet said, getting ready for the effort to push the bill through two houses of Congress,  "It's neither ethical nor just to impose artificial limits on love," she added.  Marriage Equality is the law of the land in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and parts of Mexico - If the bill is passed in Chile, same-sex couples who married abroad will be able to have their union recognized there.  Last week, Chile's constitutional court lifted the country's total abortion ban, allowing the procedure in cases of rape, when the mother's life is in danger, or when the foetus is unviable.

North Korea's missile launch signaled its "contempt for its neighbors" and the international community, said Donald Trump, and therefore "all options are on the table" to deal with the threat from Pyongyang.  The KN-17 intermediate range missile flew 2,700 kilometers out of North Korea, over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.  This launch came a day after US and Japanese forces wrapped up military exercises, and while US and South Korean forces practice maneuvers on the peninsula.  It also follows a fiery exchange of threats and insults between Trump and the North Korean regime.

Trump and wife Melania visited part of the flooded areas of southeast Texas, leading a contingent of federal officials in an effort to send the signal that the US government is on the job and will not repeat the mistakes of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (which happened the last time a Republican was in office).  The optics didn't get off to a good start as the Trumps exited the White House - Donald wearing ironed khakis and Melania in UA$1,000 stilettos.
Not dressed for the job
Well, they certainly look ready to roll up their sleeves and perform some serious disaster relief, don't they?  Sure they do.  At least she got the flood pants right AMIRITE?  Social media blew up.  When they got off the plane in Corpus Christi, Melania had changed shoes into what appeared to be white, unscuffed, brand news trainers two sizes too big for her.  Later, they flew to the Texas emergency management center in the capital Austin for an update on recovery efforts.

The flooding caused by Hurricane (later Tropical eStorm) Harvey is getting worse.  Levees have breached on at least on waterway and on a private reservoir at Columbia Lakes in Brazoria County, where officials put it bluntly: "Get out now," they tweeted to people downstream from the breach. The death toll has been raised to at least 14 lives lost, including a 34-year veteran Houston police officer who drowned Sunday night while attempting to answer the call to come in and help flood victims.  Houston officials will open two or three more mega-shelters to accommodate people who continue to arrive at the city's overflowing Convention Center, where 9,000 are already seeking shelter.

The subject of evacuations has been a touchy one, with people outside the Houston area wondering why the Mayor didn't tell residents to get out of town.  The reason goes back to Hurricane Rita in 2005:  Texas is a conservative Red States that doesn't believe in too much public transportation.  Millions of people all hit the road at once, forming a traffic jam that stretched for more than 100 miles and lasted a day and a half.  Dozens of people died on the road; in a horrific bus fire, in traffic accidents, of heat stroke.  This time around, the flooding is much worse and thousands of people trapped on the road would have been at risk of drowning on submerged Interstate Highways.

Did we say there was flooding in Houston?  There's also flooding in Mumbai, after heavy monsoon rains.  The city's public transportation network is shut and many were trapped at their workplaces, unable to get home.   Emergency services have their hands full.  Around 500 people have died in seasonal flooding across South Asia.

Bangladesh sentenced Sohel Rana to three years in prison for financial crimes:  But he still faces murder charges for the 2013 collapse of his Rana Plaza industrial building which killed more than 1,100.  The poorly constructed building had illegal extra storeys added on and shook like a leaf when unlicensed HVAC units on the roof were turned on.  Mr. Rana and 37 co-defendants - including government officials - could get the death penalty if they are found guilty of murder.

South Africa's health minister at a regional conference blasted certain African leaders for seeking medical treatment abroad, derisively labeling the practice "Health Tourism".  "We are the only continent that has its leaders seeking medical services outside the continent, outside our territory. We must be ashamed of that," said Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi.  "This is called health tourism.  We must promote our own."  The conference took place in Zimbabwe, whose aging leader Robert Mugabe frequently gets treatment in Singapore; Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari and Angola's Jose Eduardo dos Santos.  A Mugabe spokesman insists that his Singaporean doctor is black and originally from Zimbabwe.