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Iraqi forces are not 1.5 kilometers from the outskirts of Mosul and preparing to take on fighters with the so-called Islamic State inside city limits.  Advance forces say they encountered some resistance in the form of car bombs as they moved through the last village before the city.  Iraqi military officials say the first step will be to retake the section of city to the east of the Tigris River.

Danish police are looking for a Syrian refugee after the murdered bodies of his estranged wife and their two daughters were found in a freezer in their apartment.  The family arrived in Denmark last year and later received refugee status, but the suspect did not live with the three others. 

15,000 people were left homeless by the latest earthquake in Italy, Sunday's magnitude 6.6 temblor that rocked the center of the country from the eastern hills down to Rome.  Although it was the strongest quake since 1980, no one was killed and only 20 people were hurt.  Numerous ancient and historic buildings were damaged, and Italian officials are working just how they will rebuild.

South Africa's Rand currency is up to a five week high after prosecutors dropped charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, just two days before he was to face trial for fraud.  Critics had maintained that the charges against Gordhan, a respected treasury chief and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, were politically motivated as factions battle for control of the ruling African National Congress.  Prominent ANC members have called on President Jacob Zuma to step down amid corruption scandals.

It's now three former US Attorneys-general who say the FBI director grievously erred and deviated from Justice Department protocols by announcing that agents were looking at newly discovered emails to see if they're related to Hillary Clinton's time as US Secretary of State, just eleven days before the US Presidential election.  Alberto Gonzalez, who served as chief law enforcement officer for the Bush administration, joined his successor Michael Mukasey and Eric Holder from the first six years of the Obama Administration in questioning the judgment of Director James Comey.  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sent a letter to Comey charging he have violated the "Hatch Act" that bars federal officials from using their authority to influence an election - which Reid said Comey was trying to do, to benefit fascist demagogue and orange enema Donald Trump.  Hillary Clinton was already cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the probe over her misuse of a piece of office equipment.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and leaders of the opposition have agreed on an agenda for talks aimed at ending the country's deep political crisis.  The initial meeting was arranged by the Vatican.  The opposition has been trying to remove the democratically-elected Maduro from office through a recall referendum, which was thrown out by the courts and election authorities over fraud.

The air quality in parts of the city of Delhi is 30 times worse than the limit set by the World Health Organization, because of the massive amount of fireworks set off for the Diwali festival, the most important Hindu holiday in northern India.  Officials had warned that the breeze was low and the air is humid, trapping particulates from the exploding fireworks.  The central pollution control board said that particulate matter known as PM 2.5 more than doubled within a few hours on Monday to 750 micrograms per cubic meter.  That means there is a "serious risk" of respiratory problems for people living in Delhi and advised against physical activities.

Sweden's tax agency has finally declared famed diplomat Raoul Wallenberg dead, seven decades after he disappeared.  This is after a request from his family, in order to "let Raoul rest in peace".  The heroic Wallenberg is credited with rescuing thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them Swedish travel permits just before they were to be shipped to Auschwitz.  But he was arrested by Soviet troops in 1945 as they swept across Eastern Europe, and was never heard from again.  It's believed he died in a Soviet prison in 1947 or as late as 1952.

Actress Tippi Hedren says that director Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted her in the back of a limousine in the 1960s, and followed through with threats to harm her career after she fought off his rather disgusting advances.  Hedren writes, ""It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly, and I couldn't have been more shocked and more repulsed."  She says she didn't publicize the crime prior to her autobiography coming out this month because "sexual harassment and stalking were terms that didn't exist" in the early 1960s - not to mention the power imbalance between one of Universal Studios' top directors and a working actress.  Hedren starred in Hitchcock's "The Birds" and "Marnie".