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Russia has suspended all flights to and from Sharm El-Sheikh, a possible indication that the Kremlin is closer to believing that it was a bomb that brought down the MetroJet Flight in the Sinai desert a week ago.  All 224 people on the Boeing A321M were killed.  President Vladimir Putin wants Russian on holiday in Egypt to be brought home - that could involve the sudden transport of as many as 50,000 people.  This follows the lead of the UK, which already suspended its Sharm El-Sheikh flights and is bringing home its holiday-makers.

French media is reporting that the sound of an explosion was captured on the MetroJet flight's black boxes shortly before the crash.  UK and US government sources have said they believe that a bomb was planted on the plane on the ground at Sharm El-Sheikh, but they sources have refused to go on the record and reveal what specifically gave them the notion.  France's BEA - the agency that investigates the country's plane crashes - would not confirm the report on France 2 TV.

US President Barack Obama is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, which oil companies hoped would carry heavy tar sands oil from Canada to port in the Gulf of Mexico.  Landowners and Environmentalists fought the plan for eight years, saying the risks spillage directly over America's largest underground aquifer were too great, and the jobs the project would have created were too few.  Mr. Obama agreed the pipeline would have been a lot of trouble without benefiting the US economy.

Greenpeace accuses the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of revoking its registration to operate.  Modi's government has accused the widely respected Environmental group of flouting tax laws and having an anti-development agenda.  Greenpeace has been operating in India for 14 years, and officials with the group hope to keep working.  "We are confident that we are on strong legal ground." said Greenpeace's Vinuta Gopal said in a statement announcing its appeal of the government's decision.  "We have faith in the legal process and are confident of overcoming this order."

Sierra Leone's leader says the UN World Health Organization stalled declaring a state of emergency and restricting movement during the Ebola outbreak.  The country had almost 4,000 fatalities from Ebola infections during the West African Ebola Epidemic.  The WHO has admitted making mistakes as the epidemic worsened, and President Ernest Bai Koroma said he had had "conflicts" with WHO advisers.  If no new cases are reported today, it will mark 42 days without a new Ebola infection in Sierra Leone - meaning that the country can finally be declared "Ebola Free".

Hopefully, there's no mistake here:  WHO says that malaria infections are deaths are down in Latin America.  Because of prevention and mosquito control efforts across the region, there has been a 70 percent drop in cases, from 1.2 million in 2000 down to 375,000 in 2014.  Key to this has been Brazil; when t he Leftist government that came into power in 2003 fanned out 14,000 health care workers since the Leftest government of in rural and urban areas toraise awareness among local communities about how to detect and prevent malaria and ensure mosquito nets are properly set up and used. 

One of the leading republican candidates for President of the United States has been caught in a rather big lie.  Ben Carson claimed to have been offered a full scholarship at West point, but officials say there's absolutely no record of that happening nor of Carson even submitting an application.  Carson's campaign acknowledged that he never applied. 

At the same time, Ben Carson is bizarrely insisting that CNN is trying to smear him by - get this - reporting that it could find no one to corroborate his claim that he tried to stab family members as an angry youth, or that he attacked his own mother with a hammer.  This means that Carson is admitting he lied about West Point, but insists he tried to stab family members to death.  Seriously, this is a major conservative presidential candidate.  Both the West Point and stabby-stabby stories were part of his 1990s autobiography when fed his legend among US evangelicals that Carson was an angry young man before finding religion and becoming a "brilliant surgeon". 

Earlier this week, Carson had people scratching his heads with his idiotic belief that every archaeologist in the world is wrong and that the Egyptian pyramids were built by Joseph, the mortal step-father of Jesus, for storing grain.  This, despite that fact the pyramids were built thousands of years before Jesus and were chock-full-o-dead pharaohs.  Carson has also claimed the earth is only 6,000 or so years old; the big bang theory was invented by the devil; Health care reform in the US is worse than nazi Germany and slavery.