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America's allies are blasting the leading republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he said that the US should ban all Muslims from entering the country, even Muslim American citizens who are abroad.  British PM David Cameron said through a spokeswoman that he "completely disagrees" with Trump's comments, which he regards as "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong"; French PM Manuel Valls accused Trump of stoking "hatred and conflations" with his rhetoric, which Trump has brought into mainstream America from its roots far-right wing hate groups. The White House on Tuesday declared that Donald Trump idea to "completely shutdown" Muslims entering the United States is blatantly unconstitutional - and therefore "disqualifies him from serving as president", according to spokesman Josh Earnest, who called Trump's rhetoric "offensive" and "toxic". 

Trump's rhetoric and front-runner status in the US republican party  is causing concern in the Middle East - with the very people whom America needs to help it defeat Islamic State.  Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga Major Ayoub Mustafa says, "This man is encouraging the same kind of hatred as Daesh," using the Arabic name for IS.  "Islamists use religion and hate to gain votes in the Middle East. Yet we're seeing the same ideology being used (by Trump)," said Cairo banker Feras Ali Abou Ghaben, "And no one is fighting it.  It's just getting applauded."  And those who look to America as the beacon of freedom in the world see a chilling change:  "How can a country that always talks about human rights and freedom do this or even consider this?" asked Syrian refugee Bourhan Salem from a camp in Lebanon, "Do they know what we have suffered?”"

Enough of the orange clown.

Oscar Pistorius is free on bail while awaiting his re-sentencing on his murder conviction.  Last week, an appeals court upheld the prosecutor's appeal that changed the former Olympic and Paralympic athlete's manslaughter conviction to the more serious charge of murder.  Pistorius was released on house arrest after serving a year in prison in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, which he claimed was an accident.  He'll remain on house arrest until the sentencing hearing next year.

Kenya arrested a couple of Maasai tribesman in the poisoning of a pride of Lions, which killed two of the beasts and sickened another eight.  These animals were featured in a BBC wildlife program "Big Cat Diary".  The men poisoned a cow's carcass at the Maasai Mara Game reserve after three of their cattle were killed by Lions.

Greek police are revealing that they tried to capture a man in January who would later be named the ringleader in the Paris Terrorist attacks.  But the operation to nab Abdelhamid Abaaoud failed.  Abaaoud died in a battle with French police five days after the 13 November Paris attacks that killed 130 people.

Russia is rejecting Turkey's complaints about a sailor on a Russian warship brandishing a shoulder-fired rocket as it passed through Istanbul via the Bosphorus Strait.  Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said "the protection of a ship is the legal right of any crew".  Bilateral relations have grown increasingly sour after Turkish F-16 fighter jets downed a Russian SU-24 along the Syrian border for allegedly breaching Turkish airspace.

Iraqi troops are retaking parts of Ramadi, according to the government.  The loss of the city in May was an embarrassment to Iraqi government forces, which abandoned weapons and military hardware as they ran away.  This time around, Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service spokesman Sabah al-Numani says that after troops launched their assault on Tamim, IS militants "had no choice except to surrender or fight and they were completely destroyed".