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The Irish government approved the wording of a referendum on repealing the country's strict, Roman Catholic church-inspired bad on abortion rights.  If it passes, it will transform the lives of Irish women and signal a further weakening of the church's former stranglehold over the country.  The referendum will be held by the end of May; if voters approve the repeal article 40.3.3 - AKA the Eight Amendment, which enshrines the abortion ban - the governing party says it will introduce legislation to legalize first-trimester abortion-on-demand.  Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says, "It's about trusting women to decide, in the early weeks of their pregnancy, what's right for them and their families."  Ireland in 2015 legalized Gay Marriage by referendum.

UK authorities are telling people not to be alarmed after deploying 180 soldiers to Salisbury, the town where a Russian spy and his daughter were attacked with some sort of chemical weapon.  Both 66-year old Sergei Skripal and 33-year old Yulia remain in a critical condition after Sunday's episode.  An officer who was first to the scene is improving.  Police in chemical protection suits also showed up at the cemetery where Skripal's wife and son are buried, put blue tents over the graves, and loaded 'items' into yellow barrels which were taken away for analysis.  Sergei Skripal was convicted in Russia of spying for the West, but was allowed to move to England in a spy swap.  Did the bills come due?  A news anchor for state TV in Moscow dryly warned that few "traitors" to Russia "had lived to a ripe old age".

The White House - which just yesterday accepted an invitation to hold direct talks between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - is already putting conditions on any such summit.  "This meeting won't take place without concrete actions that match the promises that have been made by North Korea," said White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders, before skedaddling out of the White House Press Room.  South Korean officials who relayed the North's invitation to the White House said that Pyongyang wanted the summit to discuss denuclearization.

The so-called "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in a US federal prison for defrauding investors in two hedge funds he ran and to his former drug company Retrophin.  He reportedly cried at his sentencing hearing, which probably isn't going to do him any favors if he is sent to gen-pop at a real prison and not some country club prison for white collar offenders.  Shkreli rightfully became one of the most hated people in the world for taking over the pharmaceutical company that makes the crucial AIDS drug Daraprim and raising the price 5,000 percent.  But he made everything even worse for his smirking, taunting media and social media appearances in which he all but dared karma to come get him, which has happened today.

Popular South Korean actor Jo Min-ki has been found dead after being accused of sexual assaulting eight women.  Most of the accusers were his students in at Cheongju University where he taught drama, and came forward as part of the "#MeToo" movement.  The 52-year old was a fixture of South Korean movies and TV since the 1980s. 

Kenyan President Uruhu Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga are now "brothers", the men said in a surprise joint television statement.  Prior to this truce, the opposition had accused Kenyatta of election fraud and Odinga declared himself the "people's president".  Clashes between their supporters have claim many lives.  This precedes a planned visit by the US Secretary of State, and it remains to be seen if the truce will hold after Rex Tillerson flies back to Washington.

For the first time since Monday, a United Nations aid convoy got through to residents in East Ghouta, the besieged suburb outside the Syrian capital Damascus.  More than 900 civilians have been killed in the rebel enclave since the Russian-backed government assault was launched on 18 February.

How about science, heh?   We don't talk about science enough.

Electricity generated by Nuclear Fusion reactors might be flowing through power grids within 15 years, according to scientists with a joint project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a private firm.  They claim a new class of high-temperature superconductors will help to solve Fusion's biggest problem, that it uses more energy to create the reaction than it can produce.  "The aspiration is to have a working power plant in time to combat climate change," said Bob Mumgaard, CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, "We think we have the science, speed and scale to put carbon-free fusion power on the grid in 15 years."