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The government is denying allegations in a new report from Amnesty International, which says it has evidence showing Australian officials paid human traffickers to turn back boats, and threatened asylum seekers.  "When it comes to its treatment of those seeking asylum, Australia is becoming a lawless state," said Amnesty International refugee researcher Anna Shea, as the group called for a Royal Commission investigation into Operation Sovereign Borders.  Fairfax Media reported it uncovered an illegal payment in June, and Amnesty says another incident happened in July.

A dramatic flip-flop from Austria, which is now planning to construct a fence at the main border crossing used by migrants entering the country from Slovenia.  This follows weeks of Vienna's criticism for Hungary's and Slovenia's attempts to control or stop the flow of refugees and migrants with border controls.  Critics are slamming Austria for threatening the Schengen Zone, which allows people and goods to travel about Europe without border checkpoints.  Hundreds of thousands of people from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia have followed the route from Turkey and up the Balkans to the generous countries of northern Europe, putting strains on their host every step of the way.

Iran will be represented at multilateral talks on finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria this week.  Tehran confirmed that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will be there in Vienna, with the US, Europe, Russia, and Syria's Arab neighbors.  It will be the first time that Iran and the US sat at the same table for talks about Syria.  Iran and Syria are allies, and the US-backed rebels in Syria opposed the invitation extended to Iran.

Authorities charged the father and son former fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco with multiple offenses including murder.  This is after the body of a 68-year old man was found on the property in Elong Elong near Dunedoo where the pair was captured yesterday, where they had hidden for the past few days.  They'd been on the run for eight years, but the manhunt picked up steam a few weeks ago after they took shots at cops near Wagga Wagga.

The American high school cop who was caught on video violently abusing a teenage girl in a classroom has been fired.  Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff Leon Lott said that Senior Deputy Ben Fields (nicknamed "Officer Slam" by the kids) "did not follow proper procedure" when he picked up the girl less than half his size and threw her back and then across the room.  Lott also heaped blame on the teenage victim for somehow causing all of this - failing to point out that she recently became a ward of the state after the deaths of her mother and grandmother.  Lott also failed to explain why this became a law enforcement matter, since the girl's only "crime" appears to have been using her cell phone in class.

Embattled world football chief Sepp Blatter is suggesting that the decision to award Russia the 2018 World Cup had been preordained.  In an interview with Russia's TASS news agency, Blatter admitted that there had been "discussions" as early as 2010.  Blatter is serving a 90-day ban for alleged financial improprieties.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is offering a bilateral truce to the Marxist FARC rebels from 1 January 2016.  The FARC has repeatedly called for such an arrangement, and has been (mostly) following a unilateral cease-fire of its own; the government didn't reciprocate, accusing the rebels of using the lull to rearm.  Colombia's civil war started in 1964 and has cost more than 220,000 lives.

Africa's Lions are in trouble:  Their numbers could be cut in half in just a couple of decades because of hunting and habitat loss, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  The authors say Lion should now be upgraded from "vulnerable" to an "endangered" species in Central and West Africa.  "Many lion populations are either now gone or expected to disappear within the next few decades" from across most of Africa - with the exception of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, which carefully manage the populations in fenced preserves.

Sometimes that careful control doesn't work out - an illegal hunt at a private preserve in South Africa went wrong when the intended victim turned the tables on the unlicensed gunmen.  "Three men managed to climb into a tree and another managed to escape, but the deceased and two dogs were mauled to death," said police spokesman Colonel Ronel Otto.