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Developing in California:  Police and Medics are responding to a mass shooting at a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, a desert city east of Los Angeles.  The "Inland Regional Center" is a large facility with an auditorium that it rents out to other groups for meetings; that auditorium appears to have been the target, but it's not clear which group rented the room for the day.  The reports are still unfolding:  There are one to three gunmen, initially described as white males, and they likely fled in a dark colored-SUV, possibly a GMC Yukon.  San Bernardino's police chief says 14 people were killed and 14 more people are wounded, but those numbers are subject to change.

Russia is upping the ante with its accusation of Turkish cooperation with Islamic States' oil smuggling operation:  The Kremlin Defense Ministry now says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are profiting from direct involvement in this black market.  This is after Turkey's downing of a Russian SU-24 warplane that briefly strayed into Turkish airspace near the Syrian border - Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses Turkey attacking the plane to protect oil supply lines.  Russia has begun equipping its aircraft assigned to fight Islamic State in Syria with air-to-air missiles.

Fewer than half of Germany's Tornado fighter jets are airworthy, according to a Defense Ministry report which blames the problem on the "lack of availability of various spare parts".  Germany is preparing to send troops and hardware into the wars in the Middle East.  But Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen insists that only six of the operational Tornado jets would be needed for the proposed mission.

Afghanistan Taliban sources say the group's new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been seriously wounded in shooting at a meeting of militants in Pakistan, while other reports claim he might have been killed.  The Taliban had a schism over the appointment of Mansour to replace the long-time leader Mullah Omar, who died in 2013 - but whose death was kept secret from Taliban fighters for two years. 

Argentina's federal court sentenced former President Carlos Menem to four and a half years in prison for embezzlement during his administration in the 1900s.  Menem and his former finance minister Domingo Cavallo made over-payments to members of the high-ranking members of the state security service, and then kept part of the money for themselves.  The dashing Menem with his white temples and million-dollar smile has already been convicted of of smuggling arms to fighters in the Balkans wars in the same time period, and is accused of obstructing the investigation into the huge bomb attack against a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 - the great unhealed wound of Argentine criminal law and politics.

Australia's electric system is going to need about A$1 Trillion of investment in upgrades and maintenance before 2050.  The Energy Networks Association (ENA) report says that's going to be true whether Australians are generating their own power at home or buying it from the grid.  The ENA is working with the CSIRO to develop plans to deal with the problems posed by future demands.  But the association's chief executive John Bradley told the ABC that consumers would probably not see that price of the investment on their bills.

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