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Indonesian President Joko Widodo is giving PM Tony Abbott the silent treatment after Abbott requested a final call to plead for the lives of convicted drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.  The Australians are already on Indonesia’s execution island and could go before a firing squad within days.  Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will complain to the Indonesian ambassador about an “incredibly insensitive” and “macabre” photo showing a smiling police official standing next to Chan and Sukumaran on their way to the execution site.

A Singapore court sentenced two German men to nine months in prison and three whacks of a cane for the crime of vandalism.  22-year old Andreas Von Knorre and 21-year old Elton Hinz broke into a depot and spray painted a commuter train car.  The two skipped the country, but were tracked down in Malaysia.  Singapore’s draconian punishments for minor infractions are legendary, and have drawn criticism from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Islamic State (IS) militants attacked the ancient archeological site of Nimrud in northern Iraq and reportedly damaged ancient artifacts with a buldozer.  The site is famous for colossal statues known as “Lamassu”, which are mythological creatures that depict either lions or winged bulls with bearded human heads.  It’s the latest in a series of attacks on ancient sites and treasures that IS has attacked in the name of its supposed “caliphate”.  Last week, IS militants smashed a bunch of statues in a museum in Mosul, although it turned out that some of the items were reproductions and not the actual artifacts.

Insurgents say that the top military commander of al Qaeda’s Syria affiliate al Nusra front was killed by a US air strike in the town of Salqin, near the border with Turkey.  General Military Commander Abu Humam al-Shami was apparently meeting with at least three other Nusra Front commanders who were also reportedly killed in the blast. 

Police in southern China shot and killed a man who injured nine people in a knife attack at the train station in Guangzhou city.  Video from the scene purports to show people running away as cops with whips move in.  No motive was given, but a series of similar attacks have been blamed on Muslim separatists from China’s Uighur minority group in the far northwest of the country.

South Korea plans to file attempted murder charges against the man who slashed the face of US Ambassador Mark Lippert, who is recovering from the attack in hospital.  55-year old Kim Ki-jong has a history of nationalist activity, and reportedly visited the North several times.

Bolivia’s former drug czar has been arrested for alleged links to the drug trade.  General Oscar Nina was the head of the national police force in 2010 and 2011.  His wife, daughter, and son were also arrested and charged with illegal enrichment.  Bolivia is the world's third largest producer of cocaine after Peru and Colombia.

Liberia released its last Ebola patient from a Chinese-run treatment center in Monrovia.  58-year old Bernice Yardolo says she is “one of the happiest persons on earth”.  For the first time since May 2014, Liberia has gone a week without a new infection – but Sierra Leone and Guinea are reporting more than a hundred new Ebola cases.  The West African Ebola Outbreak has killed almost 10,000 people since the beginning of 2014.

Bowing to public pressure and not wanting to pay lawyers to fight local anti-cruelty ordinances across the United States, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus says it is phasing out Elephant acts over the next three years.  The family that owns the self-proclaimed “Greatest Show on Earth” denies that Animal Rights activists won.  But they acknowledge that it’s been difficult to organize tours when city after city bans the use of “bullhooks” that training employ to control the beasts.