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China is warning both the United States and North Korea to step back from a stream of recriminations and chest thumping before it passes the point of no return and war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula.  Foreign Minister Wang Yi said "storm clouds" were gathering, an apparent reference to Pyongyang's possible imminent nuclear weapons test and the US naval aircraft carrier battle group just off the peninsula.  "We urge all parties to refrain from inflammatory or threatening statements or deeds to prevent irreversible damage to the situation on the Korean Peninsula," said Wang, while saying that both sides will be responsible for whatever happens and "pay the corresponding price".

The US military is defending its use of the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan.  Officials say dropping the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, was a purely "tactical" decision, amid speculation that the White House was trying to send a message to other parties (see above).  The so-called Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan is denying Pentagon claims that the MOAB killed 36 fighters.  The military released video of the MOAB, which went "ka-boom".

The Russian daily Novaya Gazeta is on the lookout for retribution from its stories revealing state-sponsored abuse of LGBT people in Chechnya.  A group of conservative Muslim leaders released a resolution stating, "Retribution will catch up with the true instigators, wherever and whoever they are."  Chechen cops reportedly rounded up 100 gay men into what amounts to a concentration camp at the orders of authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov who is second in power only to Vladimir Putin in the Russian republic.  Three men were reportedly killed.  Chechnya's government denies it, and even denies that there are any Gay people in the northern Caucuses.

Someone else who denied the existence of LGBT folks in his country is trying to get back into government.  Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's running for his old job, despite having been counseled against it by the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.  Incumbent President Hassan Rouhani registered for re-election, saying he is "for Iran, for Islam, for freedom and for more stability in this country".  But both of them might have a hard time against conservative Ebrahim Raisi, who is reportedly close to Khamenei.  The Iranian presidential election is in May.

German police say there is "significant doubt" that this week's bombing attack on the Borussia Dortmund football club team bus was the work of radical Islamists.  Letters found at the scene now appear to have been a ruse to try and throw investigators off the scent, and the attackers might have had domestic political motives - or maybe they were just football hooligans.

Tiny little Balkan country Montenegro arrested 14 people in an alleged plot to overthrow the government.  Two suspects are Russian agents.  Montenegro is on the verge of joining the NATO alliance.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet will try to remake the country's unpopular pension system, a failed relic drawn up by right-wing economists from the University of Chicago and implemented by their best buddy and murderous fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet.  The lousy privatized system didn't take cost of living adjustments into its formula and thousands if not millions are living on fractions of what they expected in their golden years, amounts less than a minimum wage salary.  "We must advance toward a truly mixed social security system, where all play their part, where solidarity comes from personal effort, where the state and employers play their corresponding role," President Bachelet said while announcing the proposed changes.