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G20.  Gee, twenty.

In a regional election in a nice little corner of Germany, the Social Democratic Premier Erwin Sellering was elected to a third term - but the part that grabbed the attention of the international news media is how the second and third place finishers panned out.  Chancelor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) came in third behind the openly racist and xenophobic Alternative For Germany (AfD), which morphed from an anti-EU party to blatant Islamophobia.  AfD appears to be entering the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania assembly at the expense of the CDU and two other far right parties which will leave government.  It's a troubling milestone for the growing AfD, which just missed getting into the national Bundestag earlier this year.

Hong Kong reports Sunday's polling had the highest election turnout since the territory was handed back to China in 1997.  Counting got underway after voters cast ballots to choose 35 lawmakers based on geographical constituencies and 35 people to represent selected trades.  For the first time, some candidates openly called for secession from mainland China.

Pope Francis formally elevated Mother Teresa to sainthood during a huge event at the Vatican.  The Pope said Saint Teresa had defended the unborn, sick, and abandoned in her mission in Kolkata, India, and had shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created".  A special Mass was celebrated at the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded in Kolkata. 

Global Warming has arrived, increasing the flooding and damage on the US East Coast following Hurricane Hermine.  Scientists have been warning about for decades, and Sunday's New York Times reports on the new normal for the region:  Roads that wash out several times a year that didn't used to; Beaches washing away and being rebuilt, only to wash away again and again; Inland flooding of salt water, poisoning wells and killing lawns.  "Once impacts become noticeable, they're going to be upon you quickly," said William V. Sweet of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  "It's not a hundred years off - it's now."  Not that it's a secret to Australia, just look at the Great Barrier Reef.

Oil company goons were caught on camera attacking Native American and environmental activists with dogs and pepper spray at the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in the north-central US.  There's a court order halting the project, but bulldozers plowed over a Sioux burial ground removing topsoil across an area about 150 feet wide stretching for 2 miles.  "These grounds are the resting places of our ancestors," said Standing Rock Sioux chairman David Archambault II, "The ancient cairns and stone prayer rings there cannot be replaced. In one day, our sacred land has been turned into hollow ground."  The coalition of Indigenous people is blocking the US$3.8 Billion project because the pipeline twice crosses the Missouri River, which provides water to millions - and because the planned route crosses the place where the Standing Rock Sioux reservation draws its clean water. 

An oil truck collided with a passenger bus, killing at least 36 people on the road between Kabul and Kandahar, Afghanistan.  Many of the dead were women and children, and there are dozens more injuries.  Afghanistan's roads are notoriously unsafe.

The daughter of a former US congressman who survived the Holocaust has returned her father's distinguished award to Hungary.  This is after Hungary's government decided to honor a racist xenophobic writer with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit.  Katrina Lantos Swett said newspaper columnist Zsolt Bayer had "sullied" the award because of "loathsome writings" that heaped scorn on Jews, compared Hungary's Roma population to animals, and said all Muslims older than 14 were "potential murderers".  Her father, the Hungarian born late Congressman Tom Lantos of California was a good guy - he headed the US House Human Rights Commission and took on China's rights abuses, demanded Japan apologize for wartime sex slavery, and condemned Turkey's genocide of Armenians in World War I.