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Russian sent a column of trucks from its supposed aid convoy into rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine, sparking protests from NATO and accusations from Kiev of a Russian invasion.  It’s not clear what was on any of the trucks, as they’ve never been thoroughly inspected.  Kiev and western nations have accused Russia of using them as a pretense to military action.  NATO officials also said that the Russian military had moved artillery units inside Ukrainian territory in recent days and was using them to fire at Ukrainian forces.

Lithuania says “terrorists” have kidnapped and murdered its honorary consul Mykola Zelenec in the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.  The term “terrorists” mirrors Kiev’s term for Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.  Lithuani is one of the EU’s biggest critics of Russian intervention in Ukraine, and says the aid convoy that breached Ukraine’s border on Friday is a “blatant violation of international law”.

The US is condemning China for the “unsafe and unprofessional” actions of a fighter jet pilot who flew his Su-27 too close – within ten meters – of a US Navy P-8 Poseidon patrol plane.  This happened on Tuesday over international waters east of China's Hainan Island.  Biejing has not commented.  At one point, the Chinese pilot did a barrel role, apparently to show off his weapons.  Show off.

Shiite attackers including a suicide bomber killed 70 Sunnis at a mosque in Iraq’s Diyala province.  The bomber detonated the device during Friday prayers, and the gunmen outside opened up on anyone who survived and tried to run away.  The past few weeks have seen intense fighting between the Shiite Iraqis and Sunnis of the terrorist group “Islamic State”, who’ve captured territory in Iraq and Syria.

UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay says the death toll in Syria’s civil war reached 191,000 by April of this year, and the current figure is “probably an underestimate”.  That’s still more than double the death toll at this time last year.  Opposition groups in Syria have been fighting to dislodge President Bashar al-Assad for more than three years.  But they’ve lost ground to both the government and Islamic State.

The political leader of Hamas says his Gaza-based group is nothing like Islamic State.  Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal spoke from his office in Qatar, and said the group is against the killing of “any civilians, any journalists”.  That’s a reference to Islamic State’s beheading of US photojournalist James Foley, put on a propaganda video on the Internet.  But at the same time, Meshaal acknowledged that Hamas militants did carry out the reprehensible kidnapping and murders of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June, framing it as the work of a rogue unit from Hebron without the knowledge of Hamas leadership.

The trial has opened for a German police officer accused of killing another man for the purpose of eating him.  Prosecutors say 56-year old Detlev Guenzel met the victim on a website for cannibalism fetishists, and later strangled and dismembered the 59-year-old at the officer’s small bed-and-breakfast in the Erz mountains in eastern Germany.  The defense says the victim was totally into it, so.. consenting adults.  Really?  Really?  That is about the stupidest goddammed thing I’ve read in a while, since it’s still illegal to kill people with the intention of eating them.  Guenzel faces 15 years in prison if convicted.

New York authorities have denied parole to Mark David Chapman, who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980.  The board told Chapman that his “release would be incompatible with the welfare of society and would so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law.”  Chapman harbored a grudge against Lennon from 1966 when John famously said that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus Christ”.  This is the eighth time the New York State Parole Board denied Chapman’s parole application.

Colombia’s military and the Marxist FARC rebels plan to meet face-to-face without shooting at each other.  Military leaders will for the first time attend the peace talks going on in Havana to discuss ways to implement the ceasefire to end the five-decade civil war.  Newly reelected President Juan Manuel Santos says the two sides are close to an agreement.

Police used tear gas and water cannons on thousands of students in Santiago, Chile.  Students say 80,000 protesters hit the streets in the capital, with more large gatherings in other cities.  It’s part of the students’ sustained campaign, calling for free, quality higher education for all in order to correct the imbalance of opportunities for wealthy and poor Chileans.  President Michelle Bachelet definitely hears the call, and her education reform package is still being debated in the lower house.

Bolivia’s Democratic Unity Party seemed anything but unified as it kicked off its campaign for the October election.  Rival soccer fans began fighting and hurling chairs at each other.  The clash between fans of Oriente Petrolero and Blooming forced many to flee.  A recent poll showed that President Evo Morales of the Movement For Socialism tops the field with 52 percent.  If that holds, it’s enough to win reelection in the first round and avoid a runoff with someone who possibly throws chairs.