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Greetings Readers,

• More than 90,000 evacuated from active Philippine volcano area.
• President Dutarte meets with volcano response team.
• After two month pause Philippines resumes war on drugs program.
• North Korea abruptly cancels joint cultural program with South.
• Trump rules out talks with Taliban for present time.  (takes 2 to tango)
• U. S. Pentagon refuses to release detailed data on its Afghan campaign.
• Turkish forces intensify battle against U. S. backed Syrian Kurdish.
• Interviewed CIA Director says China as a bigger threat than Russia.
• U. S. Assist FBI Director resigns after Trump’s bias criticism.
• Anti Trump celebrities plan “People”s State of the Union message.
• U. S. reports progress in NAFTA meeting, but measured and slow.
• Japan’s exports rise for the fifteenth straight month.
• Japan to punish Coin-Check after $530 million hack.
• Third major Kabul terrorist incident in two weeks kills 11 soldiers.
• Kabul community mourn 103 deaths in last weeks massive attack.
• India government reports country has 21 million unwanted girls.
• India public outraged at reports of eight month old baby raped.

(News gathered from Channelnewsasia, BBC, CNN, and France24)

All the best to you. 

Ron Miller