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The British boyfriend of a Byron Bay, NSW woman has reportedly confessed to killing a Bali police officer - which his lawyer says was during a struggle to retrieve Ms. Connor's missing handbag from a bad cop.  David Taylor and Officer Wayan Sudarsa struggled on Kuta Beach on 17 August, with Mr. Taylor eventually using the victim's binoculars and a beer bottle as weapons.  "According to our client this is when the victim stopped struggling," said Taylor's lawyer Haposan Sihombing , as quoted by Fairfax Media.  "Our client regrets what he did on the incident of the 17th," he added.  Sara Connor's legal team insists she was not involved in the assault, and tried to separate the two men, which was when Sudarsa bit her on the arm and leg.  The two are still being held in jail on Bali.

Nearly 1,800 people have been killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's supposed "war on drugs" in which he encourages the public to kill anyone who is perceived to be a drug dealer - no evidence, no trial, just bodies piling up.  The national police chief told a senate inquiry that cops killed 712 people, while vigilantes murdered another 1069 people.  The senator leading an inquiry into the carnage of the last seven weeks says it "seems to be an excuse for some law enforcers and other elements like vigilantes to commit murder with impunity".  No fooling.

The Olympics are over, but the repercussions for US swimmer Ryan Lochte are still coming after he was caught lying about being robbed in Rio to cover up a wild night of drinking and vandalism.  Speedo budgie smugglers is ending its ten-year relationship with Lochte, and will donate US$50,000 to a Save The Children charity fund earmarked for Brazilian children.  Now using "brazilian" as an adjective, the Syneron-Candela gentle hair removal company is parting ways.  And Ralph Lauren is ending its contract with Lochte.  US Swimming, the US Olympic Committee, and the IOC could still penalize Lochte.

A Mexican news outlet is accusing President Enrique Pena Nieto of heavily plagiarizing the thesis for his law degree.  Aristegui Noticias says academic analysis shows that almost a third of the 1991 thesis submitted to Panamerican University was material lifted from other works, including 20 paragraphs copied word-for-word from a book written by a former president , without proper citations. 

The opposition calls it fear-mongering, but Germany's government will encourage people to stock up on ten days' food and water in case of a national emergency - something the German government hasn't done since the Cold War.  It comes with public unease over the million or so refugees who've come to stay in Germany over the last year, and increasing attacks.  The last update to the national civil defense advice came in 1995, and this one goes before lawmakers on Wednesday. 

The suicide bomber who killed more than 50 people at a wedding in Gazantiep, a predominantly Kurdish city in the southeast of Turkey may not have been a 12-year old boy, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had claimed on Sunday.  Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters today that not only have they not determined the bomber's age, but "a clue has not yet been found concerning the perpetrator".  Turkish artillery pounded away across the border at Islamic State positions in northern Syria, and also at the US-backed Kurdish YPG which is fighting IS.

Iran says that Russia's use of its Shahid Nojeh airbase for air strikes against Syrian rebels is "over, for now".  Iran's Defense Minister Hossein Deghan complained the Russians displayed a "show-off" attitude.  The Tupolev-22M3 long-range bombers and Sukhoi-34 strike fighters have returned to bases in the Russian Federation.  Both Iran and Russia support the Syrian government.

A former Islamist militant went before the International Criminal Court in The Hague to plead guilty to destroying UNESCO World Heritage cultural sites in Timbuktu, Mali in 2012.  Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi faces up to 30 years in prison; he profusely apologized and urged Muslims around the world not to get involved in jihadist causes.  Al-Mahdi was a member of a militant group that considered the historic sites from the early days of Islam to be "idolatrous", and destroyed the ancient temples with pickaxes. 

Another neo-liberal economic scheme has proven to be an unwanted, total failure.  Hundreds of thousands of Chileans marched through cities up and down the lengthy South American nation to demand President Michelle Bachelet scrap the the "AFP" pension system that left so many elderly people destitute.  Instituted in 1981 during the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, this farce designed by the "Chicago Boys" - right-wing University of Chicago economists who've screwed up the world to benefit the rich - is paying people far less than the 70-percent of the working salaries as promised, and in many cases is paying out less than the minimum wage.  Left-Wing President Bachelet has already promised to look for ways to boost retirees' incomes.