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The UK High Court has thrown a spanner in the Brexit works, ruling that the government has no standing to invoke Article 50 of the European Charter to pull the country out.  That's being interpreted as meaning that Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to start the Brexit by March must be preceded by a vote in Parliament.  The UK government is appealing the ruling, and another hearing is scheduled for next month.   UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Ms. May must "bring its negotiating terms to Parliament without delay", adding that "there must be transparency and accountability to Parliament on the terms of Brexit".

South Korea formally arrested a long time friend of President Park Guen-hye for alleged interference in state affairs.  Choi Soon-sil is also accused of using her friendship with Ms. Park to solicit donations to her charity.  Park is the daughter of South Korea's military dictator of the 1960s and '70, while Choi is the daughter of a cult leader implicated in previous corruption scandals.  President Park is expected to address the nation on the growing scandal today.

Two weeks into the Iraqi push to retake the city of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State, an audio message purportedly from jihadist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urges supporters not to retreat as the Iraqis advance.  Baghdadi's whereabouts are unknown.  A 50,000 strong coalition of Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen, and Shia Muslim militiamen are involved in the battle to oust IS from its last stronghold, backed by US-led coalition air strikes. 

European officials say more than 200 migrants are believed to have drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya.  UN refugee agency workers learned of the tragedy as survivors were brought ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa.  So far, only twelve bodies have been recovered.  More than 4,200 migrants have died making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea this year.

The US Office of Personnel Management is warning federal employees - meaning, the FBI - about violating a 1939 law preventing them from abusing their positions to provide unfair support to candidates.  "If you’re a #Fed, please know the restrictions of political activity under the #HatchAct," the agency said in a message posted to its official Twitter page.  This comes days before the US presidential election; but after FBI director James Comey made a surprise announcement about the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server that many described as baseless innuendo.  It's follows an FBI twitter account suddenly posting old news about a pardon issued by President Bill Clinton 16 years ago, and a day after it was revealed the FBI was investigating allegations against Hillary made in a discredited book of RWNJ conspiracy theories.  In short, Personnel is warning the FBI to childishly violating the law.

Volkswagen has appointed an outside investigator to determine if its Brazilian business allowed the arrest and torture of employees under the country's former military regime from 1964 - 1985.  This is in response to a lawsuit filed by a grop of former VW workers earlier this year.  Volkswagen in 1998 had to set up a restitution fund survivors of the 15,000 death camp prisoners forced into slave labor during World War II.

Spain is excavating the ground of a church for evidence of the biggest mass grave of the 1939 civil war that brought the fascist scum General Francisco Franco to power.  The association Memoria de Mallorca says 120 Communist and Republican prisoners were lined up and shot outside a church on the island of Majorca, and dumped in a mass grave.  The group says there are still 2,000 more bodies to dig up,just on the island.  A 1977 amnesty law prevents prosecutions of the fascists for their atrocities.