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Investigators aren't sure of the motives of the gunman who allegedly killed five people and wounded six others at the baggage claim at Fort Lauderdale Airport near Miami, Florida.  26-year old Esteban Santiago spent hours talking with investigators since his arrest after Friday's murders, leading them to believe he may have deliberately targeted that airport.  Investigators say he carried out the murders with a weapon that had been legally checked into his luggage before the flight.  "He said he heard certain voices," said older brother Bryan Santiago Ruiz, "He said that the CIA controlled him through secret messages over the internet and told him the things he had to do."  The elder Santiago notes that his brother told the FBI about the gunman's mental health issues months ago, and the FBI should have kept a closer eye on him.

The UK's National Health Service is engulfed in a "humanitarian crisis", according to the Red Cross which says it is having to provide ambulance and transport services.  "This is a national scandal," said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who demanded that PM Theresa May come to Parliament on Monday morning and advance a plan to address the service gaps caused by years of conservative cost-cutting.  It's not uncommon for patients to linger for hours on gurneys in the hallways of NHS hospitals, rather than get the home care that was part of the plan before the Tories chipped at the budget.

Local hospitals couldn't cope after a truck bomb killed close to 50 people in the northern Syrian city of Azaz.  Victims were sent to surrounding towns for treatment.  The population of Azaz had swollen in recent months, mostly with people who fled the violence in Aleppo.  No group immediately claimed responsibility, but locals blamed the so-called Islamic State.

Rioting over increasing petrol prices claimed six lives in Mexico.  More than 1,500 people have been arrested around the country.  The government has recently privatized parts of the former state run petrol company, and the price of gasoline went up 20 percent from 1 January to 18 pesos - about AU$1.16 per liter - That's a lot of money in a poor country like Mexico.  Surprise!  Privatization doesn't work.

A military revolt is spreading in Ivory Coast, with soldiers taking to streets despite preliminary talks over back pay, raises, bonuses and shorter tenures of service.  "People are afraid because the soldiers all have weapons," said Estelle Koussi, a resident of the western city of Man.  The sight of rebellious troops firing weapons in the air and setting up road blocks seems to have taken many citizens and government officials by surprise.  Ivory Coast has prided itself on political and economic stability in recent years. 

Mario Soares, considered the father of Democracy in Portugal, is dead at age 92.  The great Socialist leader was jailed several times as a relentless foe of fascist dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.  He played a key role in bringing down decades of right-wing dictatorship and military rule in the Carnation Revolution of 1974, which began as a military revolt but was taken over by civilians who placed carnations in the barrels of soldiers' guns.  Soares served as prime minister from 1976 and 1978, again in the early 1980s, and then was president between 1986 and 1996.  Mr. Soares also is noted for freeing Portugal's African territories from colonial rule.

Two indigenous groups from Namibia are suing Germany over a 1904 genocide.  German colonial troops killed 100,000 of the Herero and Nama peoples in putting down a revolt.  Germany has recently admitted the genocide happened, but the Herero and Nama have been excluded from talks between Berlin and the Namibian government.

German police had to tamp down a fake news story from a slimy US right-wing outlet that claimed a mob of 1,000 Muslims chanting "Allahu Akbar" had set fire to a church in the city of Dortmund on New Year's Eve.  It never friggin' happened.  The local news paper said an online item about fireworks was willfully twisted by the American hate mongers (rhymes with "light fart") to produce "fake news, hate and propaganda".  The Hesse state justice minister Eva Kuhne-Hormann decried "the danger" when fake news items "spread with incredible speed and take on lives of their own". 

Bollywood star Om Puri is dead of a heart attack at age 66.  He was a fixture in Indian and Pakistani films - but frequently found time for British films such as "East is East", and Hollywood movies like "Wolf" with Jack Nicholson and "Charlie Wilson's War" alongside Tim Hanks and Julia Roberts.  Western audiences first got to know him in 1982's epic "Gandhi", playing Nahari - the Hindu man who feared he would go to hell because he killed a Muslim child out of anger, and to whom Gandhi offers a way out of hell.