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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has banned Russian athletes from the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro because of the doping scandal, taking the strong action that the International Olympic Committee would not.  The World Anti-Doping Agency's McClaren Report described wide-spread state-sponsored among Russian Olympic and Paralympic athletes.  "The anti-doping system in Russia is broken, corrupted and entirely compromised," said IPC president Sir Philip Craven, who said Russia was putting the health of its most vulnerable athletes at risk.  "Tragically, this isn't about athletes cheating the system, it's about a state-run system cheating its athletes," Craven added.  Russia derisively called the decision "incredible" and promised to appeal.

Australia leads the Olympic Medal count with four Gold and one Bronze.  America and China have six medals each, but each has only one Gold.

Former Olympian Oscar Pistorius was treated in a South African prison hospital after alleged falling in his cell, and his family is denying reports it was a suicide attempt.  A prison spokesman said the injuries to Pistorius' wrists were "minor" and he had been returned to prison after Saturday's incident.  Pistorius is serving a six-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 - prosecutors are appealing to lengthen that sentence.

Torrential rain caused pwoerful flash floods that killed at least 21 people in and around Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.  Several drivers were caught off guard by the rushing water washed away roads and carried them off, depositing the victims in muddy fields.  People describe lightning strikes every minute as a month's worth of rain fell in a very short time.

The aftermath of Tropical Storm Earl caused landslides that buried several homes in Veracruz state in Mexico, killing at least six people.  Nine people died earlier when the storm crossed the Caribbean Sea.

More than 60 percent of voters approved a new constitution for Thailand, one that critics point out was written by the military and which critics say enshrines military power.  But the turnout for the balloting was only 55 percent, far less than the 80 percent expected by Thailand military dictatorship, and the junta banned any campaigning for a vote against the sad joke of a constitution.  Most of the major political parties opposed changing the constitution.  The generals seized power in 2014 from democratically-elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra; she was found guilty of the offense of mismanaging a rice scheme and banned from politics for five years.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands (maybe more than a million) of people in a massive rally in Istanbul; the gathering was supposed to be a celebration of democracy after last month's failed coup.  But Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked in by a horse) used it as an occasion to renew his push for the death penalty, which he seems intent on using against the coup plotters and troops.  The European Union has made clear that Turkey is not getting in if it reinstates capital punishment.  Most opposition parties supported the supposedly pro-democracy rally; the Kurds weren't invited.

Belgium says the man who hacked at police with a machete before being shot and killed was an Algerian with no apparent previous ties to international jihadism.  The 33-year-old - identified by the initials KB instead of his name, as is the local procedure - did have a prior criminal record, fitting a pattern seen with several of the terrorists, starting with the Charlie Hebdo attacks.  Oh, and Islamic State claimed responsibility for radicalizing the attacker.

Iran says it executed a top nuclear scientist for treason.  Shahram Amiri allegedly provided secrets about Tehran's nuclear program to the US.  Amiri went missing from the Hajj in Saudi Arabia in 2009, and later resurfaced in social media videos claiming he was kidnapped by the CIA.  He returned to Iran in 2010 to a hero's welcome, but disappeared into state custody shortly after that.  Last week, Iran returned his body to his home village, where his mother saw roped marks around his neck.

The body of Ferdinand Marcos will be moved into the Philippines' cemetery for national heroes, according to the order given by President Rodrigo Duterte.  The move is controversial because of Marcos' lengthy record of corruption and human rights abuses, and the fact he had to be forcibly dislodged from power in the "People Power Revolution" of 1986.  Marcos is blamed for thousands of abductions and killings - but then, hundreds have also been subjected to extrajudicial killings in Duterte's so-called "war on crime" - so, vultures of a feather, right?