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Leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies are gathering in Hangzhou, China for the Group of 20 summit on Sunday and Monday.  The South China Sea is going to loom large over the meeting, with China maintaining its new military installations built in the middle of international waters with rich mineral, energy, and fishing resources; and the US and its allies vowing to keep those waters open to trillions of dollars of shipping traffic.  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will push nations to close tax loopholes.

The US and China sought to get at least one accomplishment out of the summit:  Both ratified the Paris Climate Accord, which will go a long way to having it come into force before the end of the year.  Before this, only 23 nations had ratified the agreement, which stipulates that 55 nations producing at least 55 percent of the world's carbon emissions must formally ratify before it is legally binding.  US President Barack Obama definitely wants such an accomplishment to come out of his last scheduled visit to Asia as president, and China would like to start off the G20 summit on a high note, after two years of preparation.  In fact, the government temporarily suspended production at the steel mills surrounding Hangzhou City to make it look like the place isn't a polluted hellscape during the summit.

Voters in Hong Kong hit the polls today, and for the first time the ballots will include the names of young activists who want to secede from Mainland China.  This is happening as Beijing seeks to increase its control over the semi-autonomous city. 

Turkish tanks rolled across the Syrian border into Kilis province, joining up with Arab and Turkmen rebel groups from the west to take villages held by Islamic State, and to keep the Kurdish fighting forces in check.  Ankara worried that the battlefield successes of the US-backed Kurdish YPG will embolden Kurdish separatists in the southeast of Turkey.  The operation - called Euphrates Shield - is Ankara's first full-scale incursion into Syria in the five and a half year civil war. 

The Philippines is blaming Abu Sayyaf Islamist militants for Friday night's bombing in Davao City, which killed 14 people.  The group likely carried out the attack in response to the military offensive launched against it last week.  President Rodrigo Duterte was in Davao at the time, but not at the scene of the explosion.

Bangladesh put a noose around the neck of a business tycoon who was a top Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes involving the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.  Mir Quasem Ali was a principle financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, and was found guilty in eight murders attributed to the party.  The police and military are on alert for possible retaliation from his followers.

Bolivia is considering punishing illegal coca growers with prison time.  President Evo Morales is a former coca grower who rose to power protecting fellow farmers and decriminalizing the leaf in its traditional indigenous uses.  Illegal grow operations in remote areas tend to feed the international cocaine trade.  Vice Minister for Social Defense Felipe Caceres said the proposed legislation would carry a penalty of up to three years imprisonment for illegal coca cultivation.

Uzbekistan buried its long-time autocrat Islam Karimov, who died of an apparent brain hemorrhage last week.  The cortege first took the body through the streets of the capital Tashkent to the airport, where it was flown to his home city of Samarkand where mourners carried the coffin to its final resting place.  Karimov was praised by regional leaders for fighting Islamist insurgencies, and condemned by rights groups for leading a regime rivaled only by North Korea for its repression.

Pope Francis will canonize Mother Teresa on Sunday, the Albanian nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor in Kolkata, India.  The crowd in Saint Peter's Square is expected to exceed the 300,000 who watched then-Pope John Paul II beatify her in 2003.  Critics allege the Nobel Prize-winning "Saint of the Gutters" ran unsanitary medical facilities that were often staffed with poorly trained people; others allege her order coerced deathbed conversions to Roman Catholicism.  They also complain that posthumous "miracle" cancer cures attributed to praying to Mother Teresa should be credited to medical science.