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The Federal Government will legalize the cultivation of Marijuana for medicinal purposes.  "I have heard stories of patients who have resorted to illegal methods of obtaining cannabis and I have felt for them, because with a terminal condition, the most important thing is quality of life and relief of pain," Health Minister Sussan Ley told the ABC's "AM" program.  But she made clear that this was only for medicine, not for recreation:  "This is not about drugs.  This is not a product you smoke.  This has nothing to do with that," Ms. Ley said.

Turkey is denying that it reached any deal with the European Union on shutting off the flow of migrants and refugees into Europe.  EU leaders want to offer Ankara a generous deal of US$3.5 Billion for refugee centers; visa-free travel for Turkish citizens to the European Schengen Zone; and fast-tracked talks about Turkey's possible entrance into the EU.  But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says talk of EU membership is insincere, and the 600,000+ refugees and migrants that entered Europe via Turkey pale in comparison to the more than two million refugees from the Syrian war that Turkey is currently hosting.

EU leaders at that meeting in Brussels rejected a proposal from Hungary to send military assistance to Greece to prevent migrants from crossing from Turkey.  When that failed, Hungary closed its border with Croatia again, leaving thousands of migrants and refugees stranded on the Croatian side.  Both are EU members, but Croatia has yet to enter the Schengen Zone, where people can travel from country to country without border checks. 

Meanwhile, in the country everyone wants to leave (except neo-cons).. Syrian troops advanced in rebel positions in Aleppo, backed with Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon and troops from Iran, and all operating under the cover of Russian air strikes.  An unnamed US official said there could be as many as 2,000 Iranians on the battlefield.  "This is the promised battle," a Syrian military source told Western reporters. 

Israel has extra police deployed around Jerusalem after weeks of steadily building violence.  Several Israelis have been stabbed by Palestinians, some fatally; most of the attackers were immediately shot dead by cops.  But the crackdown is only resulting in creating more anger, as police are limiting Palestinian worshipers at the Al Aqsa Mosque - only women and and men older than 40 are being allowed in.  That effectively disenfranchises the angry young men who are the ones going out on the suicide stabbing missions.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is confirming two new cases of Ebola in Guinea.  It breaks a two-week spell in which no new infections were reported and a brief period of hope that the epidemic might finally be ending.  It also comes as doctors come to a new understanding of the persistence of the Ebola virus - a Scottish nurse thought cured nine months ago is back in isolation in London.  And a report earlier this week detailed how the violence hangs on for as long as nine months in the semen of men who survive Ebola disease.  The West African Ebola Epidemic has killed more than 11,300 people since December 2013, 2,534 of them in Guinea.