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A 52-year old Evans Head man is in a stable condition with serious injuries after being mauled by a shark.  Craig Ison and a friend were paddling out to surf when the fish - probably a Great White - came at them.  He warned his friend, and tried to punch the shark, but it bit him on the arms and legs.  Ison and the friend made it to safety and Ison was taken to the Lismore Base Hospital.  Officials have closed the main beach at Evans Head.

Police and the US Coast Guard in the US Pacific Northwest city of Portland, Oregon removed Greenpeace campaigners who rather daringly dangled from ropes strung on a bridge over the Willamette River.  For a time, they succeeded in blocking a a Shell Oil Ice Breaker from travelling to the Arctic Circle for oil exploration.  But the ship finally got on its way once the ropes were removed.  Greenpeace and many others are calling on US President Barack Obama to cancel Shell's arctic circle oil drilling permit.

Rights groups and medical professionals are condemning the Israeli Knesset's passage of legislation that allows for the force feeding of prison inmates in "extreme cases".  The move seems to be aimed at Palestinian hunger strikers, after Israel agreed to release prisoner Khader Adnan to end his 55-day hunger strike.  The Israeli Medical Association called force feeding "torture" and vowed to appeal the legislation.

Anti-Semitic incidents and hate crimes have risen by more than 50 percent in the UK, according to new figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST) which compared the first half of this year compared to the same period of last year.  These include assaults, property damage, and threats on social media.  The findings come at a time of heightened alert among Jewish communities after terrorist attacks in Europe. 

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has announced a ban on all foreign advisers working for his government, partially out of the fear that they could be spying.  O'Neill says he is also concerned that the locals are losing their decision-making abilities in consultations with the advisers. Australia has hundreds of advisers trying to help PNG as part of a $500 Million aid program.  The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade seems to have been taken by surprise by O'Neill's announcement.

At least 30 people are dead in landslides in Nepal.  Days of rain soaked the hillsides around the village of Kaski, a popular tourist area in the west of the country.  Officials fear the earthquakes earlier this year loosened rocks and debris, which could lead to more slides before the end of monsoon season in a few weeks.

There's confusion over whether a temple in southern Nepal has cancelled an infamous festival in which Hindu pilgrims kill tens of thousands of animals to appease a goddess.  The chairman of the Gadhimai Temple was quoted by rights campaigners as saying it was time for a change, but now Ram Chandra Shah says no such agreement has been reached, and many Hindus wouldn't stop the practice every five years even if the temple did.  The Humane Society of India's spokeswoman Navamita Mukherjee said she was "surprised and confused" by Ram Chandra Shah's comments.

Chile has arrested and charged another five former army soldiers with setting two teenagers on fire during a 1986 protest against the bloody dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.  That makes twelve people now charged with setting US resident Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Quintana alight with gasoline.  Rojas died, Quintana survived and lives in Canada now.  Pinchet and his thugs tried to blame the victims, claiming they were making a molotov cocktail that exploded.  But one of the solders involved in the atrocity finally came clean almost 30 years later.