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Prime Minister Tony Abbott is reportedly refusing to allow a vote on a cross-bench deal that would legalize same-sex marriage in Australia.  “It’s very unfortunate that Tony Abbott keeps putting up different obstacles to marriage equality coming to a vote,” Labor frontbencher Penny Wong told ABC radio.  A private member’s bill has backing from Liberal, Labor, Greens, and Independent MPs.  The US Supreme Court last week legalized marriage equality across America, and Ireland approved it by popular referendum in May.  Tony’s position, apparently, is closer to Uganda or Russia.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras remains defiant and urges his people to vote “No” in Sunday’s referendum on whether to accept or reject IMF proposals on dealing with Greece’s debt – rejecting the European partners’ demands as “blackmail”.  It is not a referendum on whether to stay in the European Union.  Tsipras thanked Greeks for their “calm” while the banks are closed and people are limited to withdrawing 60 Euros per day for living expenses.  He also said their salaries and pensions would “not be lost”.

Egypt is boiling over.  Militants affiliated with Islamic State unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks in northern Sinai, killing as many as 70 soldiers and civilians.  This comes as Egyptian forces killed nine Muslim Brotherhood members during a raid in Cairo.  The Brotherhood later condemned Egypt of killings its leaders and called for a “rebellion” against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – who just two days ago vowed revenge for the car bomb attack that killed the country’s top prosecutor.

The man known as “Britain’s Schindler” is dead at age 106.  Nicolas Winton was a stockbroker who cut short a ski vacation to go to nazi-occupied Prague in 1939, where he arranged to help 669 Jewish children escape before the nazis could send them to concentration camps.  He got the children onto trains that traveled across four countries, and then secured foster homes in Britain.  For decades, Winton’s exploits were largely unknown, because he just didn’t talk about it.  But in the 1980s, his wife found a scrapbook in the attic detailing his achievements.  She gave it to a holocaust historian and the world began to know.

A former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp has admitted that he helped steal and sort cash and valuables stolen from Jewish inmates.  But the “Accountant of Auschwitz” Oskar Groening denies the main charges against him, that his role at the death camp makes him partly responsible for the murders of 300,000 people.  At 94-years old, he faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted by the German court.

The lower house of Brazil’s congress rejected a far-right attempt to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 years old.  It would have had children aged 16 and 17 tried as adults and sent to adult prisons if convicted.  Justice Minister Eduardo Cardozo called the scheme an “atomic bomb” for the prison system, which only now is beginning to ease chronic overcrowding problems.  Brazil has the world’s fourth largest prison population, following the US, China, and Russia.