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Australia at the Pacific Islands Forum tried to weaken the resolution on the danger of global heating.

It's the same thing the US did in the Paris climate conference.

When a planet-roaster government succeeds in undermining resistance to its deadly policies, that is the first step. Having agreed to the weakened accord, it then looks for ways to avoid substantially implementing it.

"Hero swimmer" Sara Mardini, who swam to rescue a small boat containing Syrian refugees and pull it to Greece, faces charges of human smuggling for working for an organization that aids refugees.

The thugs say that the organization was corrupted and carried out actual smuggling, but why charge individual volunteers? Anyone corrupt would know better than to let them in on it.

The head climate negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States says it is almost too late to save Fiji, the Maldives and other islands from rising seas.

Some Syrian Kurds in Idlib support Assad against Arab rebels and Turkey.

I hope this means that the Kurds of Rojava can maintain autonomy and continue to respect human rights. Assad is not an Islamist and won't oppose them for being secular. However, a bloodbath in Idlib would be horrible.