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South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is dead at age 81.  She was married to Nelson Mandela throughout the 27-years he was in prison, fighting and organizing against white minority rule as well as boosting Nelson's iconic image as the leader of the struggle.  Although their marriage came apart after he was released from prison and she was tainted by corruption scandals, current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa praised her as a "voice of defiance" against apartheid: "In the face of exploitation, she was a champion of justice and equality," he said.  Retired Bishop Desmond Tutu said Winnie Mandela was a "defining symbol of the struggle against apartheid" and, "Her courageous defiance was deeply inspirational to me, and to generations of activists."

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was re-elected, as if that was in doubt.  Most of his other challengers were arrested or intimidated into quitting the campaign.

Voters in Costa Rica elected center-Left candidate Carlos Alvarado Quesada as president based on his campaign promise to legalize gay marriage in the Central American country.  He came out with a little more than 60 percent of the vote, far ahead of religious conservative Fabricio Alvarado Munoz who vowed to block marriage equality.  Costa Rica is under a legally-binding order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to remove legal blocks to same-sex marriage, adoption for same sex couples, and gender identity in ID cards for the country.  The 38-year old Alvarado Quesada will be the youngest president in the modern history of Costa Rica when he takes office in May.

Guatemala's ex-dictator Ephram Rios Montt died at age 91, finally running out the clock against genocide charges.  He was already convicted once of ordering his troops to wipe out entire Mayan villages during his rule in 1982-83 because of presumed alliances with Left-wing rebels, but he didn't face charges until 2012.  A friendly judge overturned the ruling a year later and authorities have had him under house arrest since then.

China is hitting back at the US over trade tariffs.  Beijing slapped new import fees of up to 25 percent on 128 US imports, including pork and wine.  This is in retaliation for the orange clown Donald Trump raised duties on foreign steel and aluminum imports in last month.

The Council of Europe is taking another stab at stopping Poland from slipping deeper into the abyss, demanding that Warsaw withdraw its changes to the way that it appoints judges that critics say will destroy the independence of the judiciary.  The Council's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) released a 15-page report calling the changes "serious violation of anti-corruption standards".  The ruling far-right PiS party wants politicians to appoint and fire judges (and long as its in charge), and give politicized judges the ability to reopen settled cases.  The European Union - which is separate from the Council of Europe - has repeatedly called on Poland to change to the measures before implementing them.

"Affluenza Teen" Ethan Couch was released from a Texas jail, after two years for killing four people in a drunk driving crash.  He initially avoided prison time after his conservative white male lawyer argued his wealthy upbringing left him unable to tell the difference between right and wrong, and the conservative white judge agreed.  But Couch promptly violated his cushy probation and even attempted to avoid justice by leaving the country.  Couch will now serve 6 years of supervised release, assuming he doesn't screw it up.

US TV producer Steven Bochco is dead at age 74 after a lengthy battle with a rare form of leukemia.  Bochco was responsible for the high quality, groundbreaking dramas "Hill Street Blues", "LA Law", and "NYPD Blue", which proved to re-energize the moribund and cliched output from US TV networks in the 1980s and '90s.