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Nothing better illustrates the decline in American influence in the Middle East than the bombing of the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt marriage ∙ customers outside the US lament the fact they don't have access to the level of content on offer to American subscribers to Netflix including footage of the ongoing loss of sea-ice cover wreaking havoc on ecosystems across the Arctic ∙ the New South Wales Government's draft changes to biodiversity & land-clearing legislation have been dealt a blow, with a summary of public submissions showing widespread opposition to UN aid convoys in Syria ∙ an Essential poll has found 49 per cent of Australians support a ban on Muslim immigration · for those who needed persuading that Prim Minister Malcontent Turnipball is trapped in an unhealthy, co-dependent relationship with his party's hard right, his approach to the proposed plebiscite on same-sex marriage, that it may spell the end of more species than previously thought, clinches the matter.