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Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini of the far-right League party sparked his second international crisis in a week, refusing to allow another two ships carrying refugees rescued from the Mediterranean Sea to dock at Italian ports.  "Italy no longer wants to be complicit in the business of illegal immigration, and therefore will have to look for other ports (not Italian) where to go," he wrote on social media.  Axel Steier, who runs the Mission Lifeline which operates the Lifeline ship, says Italy's new populist government is shirking its international responsibilities: "I am sure there is an obligation for Italy to take them because its closest safe harbor is Lampedusa.  We hand over migrants to Europe because of the Geneva convention," he said.

France is now agreeing to take some of the migrants from the ship that Italy refused earlier last week, the MV Aquarius.  Madrid and Paris are coordinating to handle the arrival of the migrants, who are scheduled to make landfall in Valencia on Sunday.  The fate of the ship caused a diplomatic row when French President Emmanuel Macron accused Italy of "irresponsibility" for turning it away.  Italy said its European neighbors weren't sharing the burden, since Italy took in more than 600,000 migrants fleeing war and economic hardship in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia over the past few years.

Former executives of France Telecom will stand trial after a series of worker suicides.  Prosecutors accuse Didier Lombard and six other executives of engaging in or assisting psychological harassment by forcing workers to repeatedly relocate, switch them in and out of unfamiliar jobs, or by giving them unwarranted negative performance reviews.  30 workers committed suicide from 2008 to 2010, five of them in a particularly bleak ten-day period.  The company, which has since changed its name to Orange, and the executives deny the allegations; but these are charges that could get each of them two years in prison and a fine of roughly AU$40,000. 

Afghanistan is extending a unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban that the two entities set up over the Eid festival period.  However, the so-called Islamic State isn't taking part and attacked a gathering of Taliban and government officials in Nangarhar, killing 25 people. 

At least 17 people were killed in a Caracas, Venezuela nightclub when two groups got into a fight and some idiot set off a tear gas grenade.  Around 500 party-goers rushed for the exit of the Club Los Cotorros in the El Paraiso district, trampling the victims to death.  Authorities arrested seven people and the investigation continues.

Nicaragua's government and opposition groups have agreed a ceasefire after weeks of violence that has left about 170 people dead.  A truth commission will also be established and international investigators allowed into the country.

Colombia's run-off election is on Sunday.  Former Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro is running as high as a Left-leaning candidate has in recent years, but polling indicates he's still behind right-winger Ivan Duque who opposed recent peace initiatives with Communist rebels that have ended 50 years of civil war. 

China's state-run media is directly taunting the orange clown Donald Trump, repeating the phrase "wise men build bridges but fools build walls" on its outlets.  This is a reference to the moron's orders to impose 25 percent tariffs on US$50 Billion worth of Chinese imports to the US.  Beijing retaliated with an additional 25 percent tariff on 659 US goods worth an equivalent US$50 Billion. 

Fire destroyed most of the Glasgow School of Art, a devastating loss for the city, Scotland, and the world of Design and Architecture.  It was designed by Charlie Rennie Mackintosh and completed in 1909, and had just been restored from a smaller fire in 2014.  With only the stone walls remaining, there is a depressing sense that this time it cannot be saved.  In theory and with 2014 in mind, it should have been the safest building in the world.  Aside from being a masterpiece, it was the best known example of Mackintosh's work, which would influence everything in Western design afterwards, from the Vienna Secession to Art Deco to California Craftsman.