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There's another terrible wildfire situation in Australia:  This time, fire tore through the Western Australia town of Yarloop - about 125 kilometers south of Perth - destroying 95 homes and leaving at least three people unaccounted for.  So far, there are no reported deaths.  "To lose one third of a township, one third of those houses, people's homes, is obviously very challenging for those people and I want them to know that the government is 100 percent behind them and will support them in any way they can," said WA emergency services minister Joe Francis Francis.  Officials issued an emergency warning for Waroona and Harvey and surrounding areas, including Preston Beach.  Keep in touch with the latest warnings through the Department of Fire and Emergency Services.

The United Nations says the Syrian government will allow crucial aid deliveries into towns where the remaining people have been reduced to eating grass and leaf clippings.  It's not clear how much aid will be allowed into Madaya, near Damascus, or when it will happen - but video from the town showing emaciated children confirm the crisis situation.  The last food shipment was in October.  Both the government and rebel groups have employed siege tactics on civilian populations, causing widespread hardship.  "Madaya is not on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, it is already a humanitarian catastrophe," said a health worker in the town's field hospital.

A truck bomb killed 50 people at a police training center in Zliten, Libya.  Hundreds of new recruits were gathered at the facility when a truck crashed through the security gate, targeting a large crowd of officers and new recruits.  Al Jazeera reported that it was likely carried out by a local affiliate of the Islamic State group.

Saudi Arabia "will not allow" war with Iran, according to defense minister and deputy crown prince Mohammad bin Salman.  "Because a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region," he said while adding, "whoever is pushing towards that is somebody who is not in their right mind."  The two sides support rival groups in the wars in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.  Things got even worse when Saudi Arabia beheaded a group of prisoners that included Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a Shiite cleric who advocated non-violent resistance to the Saudi regime.  Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, leading to a complete breakdown of diplomatic relations.  Most recently, Iran accused the Saudis of conducting an air strike against the Iranian Embassy in Yemen.

US authorities arrested two men who came into the country as refugees on charges related to terrorism.  But are Palestinians born in Iraq.  One man in Texas was charged with providing material support to the Islamic State militant group and for making false statements about ties to the group when seeking naturalization; another in Sacramento, California faces a federal charge of making a false statement involving international terrorism.  Officials say they weren't necessarily plotting together, but might have been in contact in the past.

The new leader of Venezuela's congress is angering people by banning images of the late President Hugo Chavez and independence leader Simon Bolivar from the neoclassical legislative building.  State-run TV is practically looping video of Henry Ramos, cracking jokes while ordering workers to haul away a giant billboard of Chavez.  "Take it all to (the Presidential palace) Miraflores, or the trash," Ramos says in the mobile phone video.  Chavez is revered by millions of poor people for his successful Socialist programs that expanded healthcare, education, and housing to the people that capitalism enjoyed leaving behind.  But 19th Century independence leader Bolivar is admired across the political spectrum, especially within the military.  Ramos is playing with fire by demanding that Bolivar be portrayed only as a White European, rather than as the multicultural - based on a recent exhumation of his remains.

Treating Ebola patience with the blood plasma of people who survived the deadly disease doesn't work.  It was hoped that anti-bodies in the plasma would help patients fight the killer virus the same way it helped the donors.  But the once-promising therapy was disappointing in field tests involving 84 patients in Conakry, Guinea, one of the worst-hit places in the West African Ebola Epidemic.  A major failing of treatment was that it was impossible to determine if the donated plasma had significant amounts of antibodies.  The bright spots were in the treatment of young children and pregnant woman, who seemed to a better survival rate than other adults in the study.