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The NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres says it is "disgusted" with the Afghan government's response to the US bombing of an MSF hospital in the northern city Kunduz.  The Afghan defense ministry over the weekend said that "armed terrorists" used the hospital as a base to attack Afghan forces and civilians.  MSF retorted:  "These statements imply that Afghan and US forces working together decided to raze to the ground a fully functioning hospital - with more than 180 staff and patients inside - because they claim that members of the Taliban were present," adding, "This amounts to an admission of a war crime. This utterly contradicts the initial attempts of the US government to minimize the attack as 'collateral damage'."

Islamic State "pulverized" the Arch of Triumph, a 2,000 year old ruin in Palmyra adjacent to the two ancient temples and other treasures already destroyed by the militant occupiers.  Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim says that if IS remains in control of Palmyra, "the city is doomed".

Declaring that "detention has ended", Nauru is to process all of the remaining 600 asylum seekers in the immigration detention center "within the next week".  Refugees will be among those reviewing applications for refugee status.  Nauru has also said the facility will be open 24 hours a day, meaning that people will be free to move about the island without curfews.

The Australian Army will replace its aging Land Rover fleet with new Hawkei light armored personnel carriers to be manufactured by Thales in Bendigo, VIC.  This will cost A$1.3Billion, an investment the government says will create 170 jobs.  The Hawkeis will have V-shaped hulls, which designers believe will deflect the shock wave from explosions. 

The death toll in the Guatemalan mudslide has reached 131 lives lost, and the government says there is little hope for some 300 people still missing.  Heavy rain last Thursday caused tons of dirt and rocks to pour down on the village of El Cambray Dos in the Santa Catalina Pinula district outside the capital. 

Voters in Portugal returned the center-right coalition to power, despite four years of crippling EU-induced austerity.  But Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho appears to have lost his absolute majority in Parliament, and wants to talk to other parties in the next parliament to pursue the "necessary reforms" he wants to implement.  Under austerity, the country suffers 12 percent unemployment and 20 percent of the people live below the poverty line.

The World Bank says that less than ten percent of the world's population will be living in "extreme poverty" by the end of this year -  that is, people living on less than US$1.90 per day.  It's roughly a three point decrease from 2012.  The downward trend is credited to strong growth rates in developing countries and investments in education, health, and social safety nets.  But the bank says it is concerned that most of the people in this category live in sub-Saharan Africa.