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Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn went to Federal Court to plead guilty to a charge of making false statements to the FBI about his communications with Russia during the days before Donald Trump began infesting the White House.  As part of this plea bargain with special prosecutor Robert Mueller, sources have told NBC News that Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is the "very senior member" of transition team mentioned in the statement of offense.   The charge against Flynn carries a possible prison term of five years, but it is unlikely that he'll serve more than six months because of his cooperation against the Trump White House.

Pope Francis finally said the word "Rohingya" during his Southeast Asian visit.  At an interfaith meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Pope said to a small group of Muslims expelled from Myanmar, "The presence of God today is also called Rohingya," and, "In the name of all of those who have persecuted you, hurt you, I ask forgiveness. I appeal to your large hearts to give us the forgiveness that we are asking."  Francis raised eyebrows days earlier by failing to use the word during his visit to Myanmar, which is accused by the UN and rights groups of atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims including murders and ethnic cleansing.  More than 650,000 were forced out of their ancestral villages in Myanmar's Rakhine state, across the border into Bangladesh.  Myanmar officially does not recognize the Rohingya as an ethnic group and considers them illegal immigrants, despite the fact they've been there since before the early 1800s.

Argentina has given up any hope of finding the crew of a missing submarine alive.  The search for the ARA San Juan is now a recovery effort.

The war criminal who committed suicide before his UN Tribunal this week drank a vial of potassium cyanide, according to investigators at The Hague.  It's still not clear how Slobodan Praljak obtained the poison.  He claimed he was not guilty of atrocities against Bosnians during the 1990s Balkan Wars, for which he was sentenced to 20-years in prison.

While we're talking about poison, Malaysian investigators say Kim Jong-nam was carrying several vials of antidote to the poison VX, which suspected North Korean agents used to kill him in Kuala Lumpur's airport in February of this year.  The elder brother of North Korean despot Kim Jong-un was not able to administer the Atropine.  Two women are on trial for the murder, but Malaysia believes four more North Koreans fled the country and avoided arrest. 

German investigators suspect arson was the cause of an apartment fire that injured 31 Eastern European construction workers.  Witnesses told firefighters in Bergkamen, northeast of Dortmund, that a car was set ablaze outside the block.  By the time they arrived, burning tires were inside the building.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is more oppressive than when the country was under Soviet domination.  Hungarian billionaire George Soros accuses Orban of setting up "an anti-democratic system" through scapegoating and intimidation, which tantamount to a "mafia regime where they use their leading positions to keep themselves in power and personally enrich themselves".  Orban opposes immigration and claims Soros wants to flood Europe with immigrants for some idiotic reason that resonates with racist imbeciles.  Hungarian-born Soros survived the Holocaust and became a billionaire investor and philanthropist, and is vilified by the unhinged ultra-paranoid right for reasons understood only by people with tin foil hats.