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A Minnesota prosecutor can't go after the Minneapolis cop that killed Sydney native Justine Damond because police are dragging their feet in the investigation.  Hennepin County attorney Mike Freeman, whose department is independent of police and has no direct authority over their actions, admitted this at a Holiday party, but may have been unaware he was being recorded.  "I've got to have the evidence.  And I don't have it yet.  And let me just say, it's not my fault," Mr. Freeman said to co-workers.  "So if it isn't my fault, who didn't do their jobs?  Investigators, and they don't work for me.  And they haven't done their job," he explained.  Ms. Damond was shot to death by Officer Mohamed Noor last July, after she called police to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home.

Canadian cops say the deaths of a pharma billionaire and his wife are "suspicious".  Barry and Honey Sherman were found dead in their mansion outside Toronto.  Barry Sherman founded Apotex, Canada's largest manufacturers of generic drugs.  Police would not confirm that the deaths were homicides.

Israeli forces cracked down on Palestinian protesters in besieged Gaza and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, killing at least four people.  The protests were in response to Donald Trump's declaration recognizing the disputed city of Jerusalem as capital of Israel; Muslim world leaders later issued their own declaration recognizing East Jerusalem as capital of a Palestinian state. 

Thousands of opposition demonstrators blocked highways in Honduras, which still has not been resolved since balloting on 26 November.  In one town they spread spread oil and diesel on the road to stop military vehicles, in other they burned tyres and chanted "the dictatorship must fall".  Opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla said the protests "represent a show of support and a call to attention for (President Juan Orlando) Hernandez to act according to reason and admit his defeat in the elections."

Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski faces impeachment after being accused of receiving illegal payments by the giant Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which has been knee-deep in pay-for-play sleaziness on four continents.  Lawmakers from across the political spectrum advanced the impeachment motion which says Kuczynski lacks the "moral capacity" to lead the country.  The 79-year old president denies the allegations. 

Nepal's Communist Left Alliance wound up with a landslide of 113 out of 165 parliamentary seats in that country's election this week.  So, maybe sometimes power grows out of a ballot box and not a gun barrel, okay?  Although India congratulated its landlocked Himalayan neighbor on a successful democratic election after civil war and the killer earthquakes of two years ago, it will likely mean that Kathmandu will turn away from Delhi and seek closer relations with China to the north.  Ironically, the business community is looking forward to working with the Communists, because the outgoing Nepali Congress Party government rejected power and infrastructure development offers from Beijing.

European far right leaders will gather for a two-day loathsome summit in Prague.  It was organized by Czech-Japanese nutcase Tomio Okamura, whose Direct Democracy Party (SPD) won eleven percent of the vote in October's election on a platform of "we don't like Muslims" and literally nothing else.  Marine Le Pen of France and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands will meet with representatives of UKIP and Germany's almost-nazi AfD to discuss their mutual dislike of Islam and foreigners and being a bunch of miserable steaming chunks of shyte who can't get along with other people.

Inspectors had to chase pesky polar bears off the runway at the airport in Utqiagvik, Alaska, 300 miles above the Arctic Circle.  Such inspections are necessary because there isn't a lot of sunlight up there at this time of year.

Remember Oumuamua?  The oddly shaped asteroid that some scientists wondered might be spaceship?  It was a rock.