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The second US Presidential debate featuring Hillary Clinton and the racist, sexist, xenophobic orange butthole Donald Trump is to take place in Saint Louis on Sunday night.  The US Republican party is in full meltdown mode after the leak of TV production video from 2005 showing him saying horribly vulgar, misogynist stuff, with dozens of top figures calling on Trump to step aside.  Trump apparently is choosing the nuclear option instead:  He will bring to the debate old conspiracy theories about former President Bill Clinton's sexual history. 

Australia's wealthiest woman Gina Rinehart is teaming with Chinese company Shanghai CRED to put in a $365 million offer for the Kidman cattle empire, creating a new company called Australian Outback Beef.  Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting would own two-thirds of S. Kidman and Co., and Shanghai CRED one-third.  That's important because the government rejected an earlier plan in which the Chinese owned a larger stake (in the steaks).

An Australian man faces as much as life in prison after allegedly being caught with hashish in Bali, Indonesia.  Police say that 48-year old Giuseppe Serafino, who has lived and worked in Bali for about five years, had seven grams stashed in a black travel bag found in his residence, and purportedly confessed he got the drug from a British man who is also charged.  DFAT says it is standing by to provide consular assistance.  

North Korea might be preparing a new, major missile test or launch.  The blog 38 North from the US Johns Hopkins University says satellite imagery shows an increase of activity at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, including crates on the launch pad and vehicles near the fuel and oxidizer buildings.  This comes as the US and South Korea militaries are to conduct maritime exercises from Monday.  North Korea conducted its fifth and largest nuclear weapons test a month ago. 

Israel is renaming its nuclear reactor in the Negev desert after the late statesman Shimon Peres, who died last month at the age of 93.  Peres was one of the founding fathers of Israel, and spearheaded the country's highly secretive nuclear program.

Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian gunman who murdered two people and wounded five others in a drive by shooting.  This all played out near the national headquarters of the Israeli police in Jerusalem.  Authorities have been warning of increased violence as the Jewish high holiday season arrives. 

Saudi Arabia says it will investigate its air strikes that killed more than 140 people attending a funeral in the Yemeni capital Sana'a.  The US, UN, and Red Cross have taken a dim view of the Saudi action.  The Saudi air force has been bombing Yemen's Houthi - Shiite Muslim rebels - in support of the country's largely powerless puppet of a president.  Thousands of civilians have been killed since the war began in 2014.

Islamic State has lost more than a quarter of the territory that it controlled at its height of power at the start of 2015.  Security and defense analysts IHS says much of that loss occurred in the first nine months of this year coinciding with Russia's bombing campaign - and a recent slowdown also coincides with Russia shifting the focus of its attacks to enemies of Moscow's ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. 

Turkey blames Kurdish rebels for a bombing in the southwest that killed ten soldiers and eight civilians. 

His union says a French police officer is "between life and death" after a petrol bomb attack on his vehicle near a housing estate east of Paris.  The 28-year-old male officer suffered serious burns and is in an induced coma, while his female partner was also badly burned on her hands and face.  Prime Minister Manuel Valls said those responsible would be "relentlessly pursued and brought to justice".

The northern hemisphere's largest regional security is criticizing the closure of Hungary's main opposition newspaper as a "huge blow" to the country's media diversity and press freedoms.  Owners of the center-Left Nepszabadsag daily newspaper were vague about "operating costs", but journalists and Hungary's opposition alleged government pressure as they were barred from entering the building on Saturday morning.  Dunja Mijatovic, media freedom representative for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said that it's "hard to believe" the economic argument and urged the European Commission to pay closer attention to the growing authoritarianism in Europe's east.

Pope Francis is appointing 17 new Cardinals, including 13 that will be able to vote for his successor.  Most are from developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, although one - Blase Cupich of the key archdiocese in Chicago - indicates the Pope is pointing the Roman Catholic Church away from divisive social issues and the "culture war" politics of his European predecessors.

A second "replacement" Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire in the US.  This time, a Kentucky man says he was "scared to death" to wake up to a residence filled with smoke from the burning phone.  Last week, a blazing Note 7 forced the evacuation of a Southwest Airlines plane after being deemed "safe" by the company.  Samsung recalled Note 7s last month, and claimed it had fixed the problem of its smartphones overheating and bursting into flames.