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More than 100 people have died in Somalia in the past 48 hours as a result of drought.  Many occurred because of a cholera outbreak in a town in the heart of the drought region in the country's southwest - cholera often spreads due to lack of clean drinking water.  Desiccated corpses of domestic animals litter the parched landscape, and up to two million people are facing imminent food insecurity.

Sinn Fein has scored its biggest win ever in Northern Ireland's snap elections, cutting into the pro-London Democratic Union Party's (DUP) dominance in Stormont.  The Unionists no longer have the votes to instantly veto proposals to loosen Northern Ireland's abortion laws to legalize gay marriage equality, as it has done to appease its right-wing evangelical base.  The legendary Gerry Adams said the "perpetual unionist majority" at Stormont has been "demolished", and Sinn Fein's new leader in the north Michelle O'Neill says the results are "a great day for equality"; she added she wanted negotiations on forming a new government to begin "as soon as possible".  The largest vote-getters, Sinn Fein and the DUP must form a new power-sharing agreement within three weeks or risk going back to "direct rule" from London, which would then decide if new elections were needed.

The Northern Ireland snap election results could impact the Brexit.  There are concerns that possible new border controls between NI and Ireland, which is staying in the European Union, would spark a return to economic hardship and sectarian conflict.  Northern Ireland voted against the Brexit last year's referendum, and opposition to leaving the continent runs wide in both Republican and unionist communities. 

The vote represents a nadir in protestant unionist power in Northern Ireland.  The DUP had a clear majority in the previous government, but that was undone by a botched renewable energy scheme that cost almost half a billion Pounds Sterling and First Minister Arlene Foster's failure to resign to take responsibility.  There is also a growing sense that London has placed NI lower on its list of priorities.

In France, the conservative candidate Francois Fillon for some reason is refusing to quit the presidential race.  This is despite a poll in the weekly Journal du Dimanche newspaper saying that 71 percent of voters want him to stand down.  Police raided Mr. Fillon's country home for evidence in the widening scandal over Fillon paying his wife a government salary for work never performed.  Fillon is the standard bearer for France's mainstream conservative party now known as the Republicans, and party leadership is holding crisis talks this weekend.  Fillon's collapse could open a door for their other guy, former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, to enter the race and try to salvage the conservative vote from right-wing xenophobe and nationalist Marine Le Pen.

Reeking of desperation to change the subject from concerns about Russian influence over his administration, fascist demagogue Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump tower in New York City - without offering a shred of evidence.  In the early morning twitter blast that usually accompanies his daily BM, the orange clown wrote, "Terrible! Just found out Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"  (BTW, McCarthyism is something else altogether)  A spokesman for former President Barack Obama said, "Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen." 

Trump's latest delusion - which came out alongside another childish salvo in his feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as last night's prime rib  - seems to have been inspired by an item on a routinely-debunked white nationalist pretend news website.  But even if there was a wiretap, the only way any US authority could order one is with the approval of the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court,which determines if there is probable cause of a crime.  This means that Trump is wrong, or lying; or that he somehow learned about it in his capacity as current occupant of the Oval Office, and has just leaked classified information over his twitter account.

Also in stupid America, police outside Seattle are looking for the white coward who donned a mask and shot a Sikh man in the armed while telling the victim to go back to his own country.  This is similar to last week's shooting in Olathe, Kansas, where a scumbag told two Indian software engineers for Garmin to go back to their own country before shooting them, killing one, and then shooting a heroic bystander who tried to stop the scumbag.

Malaysia has expelled North Korean ambassador Kang Chol and declared him persona non grata.  This comes after last month's assassination of Kim Jong-nam, underachieving estranged brother to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.  US and South Korean intelligence say the killing was a North Korean plot.  Mr. Kang said his country simply "cannot trust" Malaysia's handling of the probe, and also accused the country of "colluding with outside forces" in a veiled reference to bitter rival South Korea, and thus the rift.

There is no football in Argentina this weekend.  Players are on strike because they have not been paid in months.  A major corruption investigation implicating senior football officials last year triggered a cash flow crisis in the clubs.