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Police in Honduras arrested an executive with a dam development company for masterminding the murder of celebrated green and indigenous activist Berta Caceres.  Roberto David Castillo Mejia was executive president of the company Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA) when Ms. Caceres was gunned down in her own home in March of 2016. 
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She opposed DESA's proposed Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, which would have destroyed her Lenca indigenous people's lands, and in the year before her murder was awarded the Goldman Prize for her activism. 
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Castillo, a former military officer, is the ninth person arrested for the murder; the others are fellow DESA employees and ex-military.  Police picked him up at the airport as he attempted to leave the country to fly to Texas.

Just before the funeral for a murdered journalist, Slovakian authorities released from custody seven Italians arrested during the investigation of the man's murder.  Officials say they didn't have evidence to hold the seven for longer than 48 hours as required by law.  Italian prosecutors believe journalist Jan Kuciak was killed for his investigation into the Mafia group 'Ndrangheta's links to official corruption in Bratislava.  Leading the funeral mass, Bratislava Archbishop Stanislav Zvolensky said, "An attack on a journalist is also an attack on the freedom of our country.  We must not allow it."

A Turkish airstrike into Syria's Afrin province killed at least 36 pro-government troops.  Syrian forces entered Afrin last month to back-up Kurds, who were the initial targets of the Turkish incursion.  The airstrike follows Turkey's worst day in Afrin; eight Turkish soldiers were killed and another 13 were injured in fighting on Thursday.

Religious conservatives in the US state of Kentucky appear to have successfully stalled a bill that would have outlawed child marriage by raising the marriage age to 18 years for men and women.  "This is legalized rape of children," said Eileen Recktenwald, the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs.  "We cannot allow that to continue in Kentucky, and I cannot believe we are even debating this is the year 2018 in the United States."  The Republican author of the bill was stunned by her partymates' sudden concern for "parents' rights" after the bible thumpers started calling.  Many women who were forced into child marriages when they were as young as 13 and 14 years old supported the bill, but majority Republicans let them down.

An unidentified man shot and killed himself outside of the White House on Saturday morning.  Donald Trump wasn't there, he was golfing at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.  This was his 100th golfing since since the inauguration just over a year ago. Euro Escort Babes

After he got off the golf course, the orange clown made the threat of a global trade war even worse, threatening to "apply a tax" on European cars "which freely pour into the US".  European officials had said they'd reply to Trump's threats to put tariffs on imported steel and aluminum by taxing symbolic American items like blue jeans and Harley Davidson motorcycles.  Meanwhile, Canada - which is a top supplier of steel and aluminum to the US - says it had better be exempted from any import tariff or it will retaliate.

Cops in Kiev dismantled a tent city of supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia who became an opposition politician in Ukraine before being deported to Poland.  Around a hundred people were arrested.

Still snowy and cold in much of Europe, and Dutch people put down their legal joints long enough to go skating on Frozen Canals.