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The truth comes out slowly in Saudi Arabia:  A report from the Associated Press says the death toll from last month's Hajj disaster is at least 2,121 lives lost.  That's more than triple the official government figures.  The Saudi government has not updated the death toll since late September, claiming that 769 people were killed and more than 900 were injured when large groups of Muslim pilgrims converged on a narrow street outside Mecca.  Iran, which lost hundreds of citizens in the disaster, blasted Saudi Arabia for covering up the truth.

An Israeli cop mistook an Eritrean agricultural worker for an attacker and shot him - a mob then descended on the wounded man, kicking him to death.  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack and investigators are attempting to identify members of the mob from security videos.  "No one should take the law into their own hands," said Mr. Netanyahu.  The PM is trying to contain Israeli panic over a series of stabbing attacks by Palestinians, warning against vigilantism while other politicians are urging Jews to arm themselves for self-protection.

The US is insisting that an F-16 warplane returned safely to base and the pilot was not injured after being hit by Taliban fire over Afghanistan. The audacious attack might signal increased capabilities of the hardline Islamist insurgents.  Military officials say the pilot jettisoned extra fuel tanks and "three munitions" - some of which appear to be shown in a photo, surrounded by masked fighters.  Last week, US President Barack Obama said that troops will be staying in Afghanistan past his term in office.

US officials signed a deal with Spain to clean up land contaminated with toxic weapons-grade plutonium from an old accident involving nuclear weapons.  A little known foul-up during the Cold War, this happened in 1966.  A US B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear bombs crashed into a refueling plane over southeastern Spain, killing several US airmen and dropping the nukes around Palmores.  Two cracked open, spilling their deadly contents.  Five decades later, the two countries have reached an agreement to take the contaminated soil to Nevada. 

Croatia has reopened its southeastern border with Serbia, easing a bottleneck of migrants and refugees trying to reach northern Europe.  But to the north, Slovenia is maintaining stricter border controls with Croatia, keeping thousands from crossing there.

Growing xenophobia has propelled Switzerland's right-wing, anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) to victory in the parliamentary election with a record 29.4 percent of the vote.  But it's not yet clear if the hateful right will be able to form a coalition, because many seats are going to a second round of voting.

Guatemala's genocidal former army chief General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes is dead at 85, never having faced justice for the killings of indigenous Mayans during the US-supported dictatorships of the 1980s.  He was arrested and charged with carrying out the executions of more than 300 during the rule of fascist dictator Efrain Rios Montt.  But in 2012 he was declared mentally and physically unfit to stand trial.

At least ten people are dead after Typhoon Koppu blasted through the Philippines.  Widespread flooding and damage are still a problem.

A gas explosion at a Pizzaria in Rio de Janeiro leveled several buildings, and injured eight people including a nine-year old girl.

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott will pay for a marble-top table that was apparently broken during a party he held after being replaced as PM.  "It was my event so I take responsibility for it," Tony said in a statement.  Liberals are being close-lipped about what happened, when, and why.  The ABC reports that Parliamentary officials believe the table "may have been damaged by a person standing or dancing upon it".