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The United Nations Security Council finally adopted a resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria to allow aid deliveries to and medical evacuations from the devastated Damascus suburb of East Ghouta, where a government bombing campaign has killed at least 500 civilians in the last few days. 
East Ghouta, Syria
Even as the UNSC met in New York, Syrian jets back by its ally Russia pounded the rebel-held enclave killing another 24 people.  The vote was delayed by 24 hours while other nations negotiated with Russia, which holds a permanent seat on the council. 
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Meanwhile, Israeli satellites took photos of two Russian Sukhoi Su-57 Stealth Fighter Jets on the ground in Syria, signalling that Russia will unleash these in the civil war to prove their combat-worthiness.

Two car bomb attacks in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed at least 32 people.  The jihadist group al Shabaab is blamed.

United Airlines and Delta Airlines have joined the growing list of major corporations cutting ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the US after the massacre in a high school in Parkland, Florida.  The list includes insurers and car rental companies that offered discounts to NRA members, and a bank that offered an NRA-branded credit card.  The lobbying group gets the lion's share of its funding from gun manufacturers, not from gun owners, so the financial impact isn't as strong as the social stigma being branded onto people who think their guns are more important than other people's children.  A week after the Valentine's Day shooting that killed 17 students and teachers, the NRA's spokesperson and leader came out with speeches seething in teeth-grinding anger blaming everything else for the school shooting, which was carried out by a Trump-loving teen who trained to use guns in an NRA-funded program.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says 21 of its workers have been sacked or forced to step down after being caught paying for sexual services while taking part in aid missions over the past three years.  The group is voluntarily disclosing this as NGOs come under scrutiny because of the Oxfam scandal in which aid workers were found to have hired sex workers while working in the impoverished country after the killer 2010 earthquake.  Children's aid charity Plan International also confirmed six cases of sexual abuse and child exploitation by staff or associates.

Even by Italy's standards this election season is a mess.  Tens of thousands of people marched in rival nationalist and Anti-fascist rallies in cities across the boot and Sicily.  Things were peaceful in Rome, but scuffles broke out in conservative Milan on the fringes of a nationalist party's rally.  Likewise, there was tension in Palermo after the head of an ugly little anti-immigration fascist group claimed to have been kidnapped and beaten by people wearing masks.  A tense situation over Italy's generous immigration policy boiled over this month when a far-right political activist was arrested for a drive-by shooting at African immigrants, giving police a fascist salute as he was arrested.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to announce member of her new cabinet under a coalition government with the Social Democrats.  But members of her own center-right Christian Democrats are urging her to shift to the right with her picks to win back party members left disaffected with Germany's welcoming policy towards immigrants.  Her conservative bloc lost some support to the racist and xenophobic far right in the September elections, and this deal with the Social Dems is the closest she has come to forming a government since then and maintaining European stability.