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The results of the Queensland election are pretty murky.  Although Labor held a 44- to 38-seat lead over the Lib-Nats as of Saturday night, it's not enough to form a government.  One Nation locked the media out of its little pity party after losing its sole Queensland MP Steve Dickson and failed to get Malcolm Roberts elected to the state parliament.  The Greens remained in contention for the inner Brisbane LNP seat of Maiwar.  Annastacia Palaszczuk seemed to back down from earlier pronouncements that she wouldn't wouldn't seek deals with the minor parties - as of last night, she said she would not cut a deal with One Nation, but conspicuously left The Greens and Bob Katter's Australia party off that (although Bob might be busy making QLD crocodile-proof).

Pakistan called out the military to deal with hundreds of rock-throwing Islamists protesting in the capital Islamabad.  The protesters are demanding the sacking of the law minister because he omitted a reference to the Prophet Muhammad in a new version of the country's electoral oath.  Some protesters got as far as the law minister's home, before 8,500 troops rolled out.  There was all sorts of damage with rocks and rubber bullets and tear gas flying all over the place, sixpeople were killed and at least 200 people were injured. 

Egypt called out air raids against suspected militant targets a day after the deadly mosque attack in northern Sinai.  The death toll from the attack was raised to 305 lives lost, making it Egypt's deadliest terrorist attack - even worse than the 2015 bombing of a plane carrying Russian tourists in Sinai in 2015, which killed all 224 people on board.  More details about the mosque operation came out.  Officials relay witness accounts of around 30 attackers in various levels of combat clothing and masks setting in on the Al Rawda Mosque, and trucks flying flags of the so-called Islamic State.  "If you raised your head," said one survivor, "you got shot."

Scotland Yard has questioned two men, aged 21- and 40-years-old, in an altercation that apparently set off the big giant false alarm in Oxford Circus yesterday.  Police now say 15 people were injured fleeing what they thought was shots fired on the state's central platform, setting off a mass panic that brought anti-terror forces into the popular London shopping district.

China's has cancelled the rest of its U20 football team's tour of Germany, because some spectator displayed Tibetan flags during a game in Mainz last week.  The German Football Association (DFB) and will try to work out some accommodation with China, but "cannot ban the protests, there is the right to freedom of expression here and certain rules apply," according to the DFB's Ronny Zimmerman.  China took over Tibet in 1950; the Dalai Lama fled in 1959 with his government in exile. 

Russia has joined the search for a missing Argentine Navy submarine, deploying a remote-controlled device to trawl the sea floor.  The ARA San Juan was last heard from on 15 November, is long overdue for returning to port, and hopes have dimmed from the 44 crewmembers.

Mexico has created a huge marine reserve around the Revillagigedo Archipelago, a group of volcanic islands off the country's southwest coast.  The Navy will now patrol the region to prevent fishing in the over-harvested waters, which are home to recovering populations of hundreds of species including rays, whales and sea turtles.