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PM Tony Abbott says Australia will take in more refugees from war and starvation in Syria to ease Europe's burden.  "When the world is in trouble, Australia responds," Abbott told Parliament.  "I can inform the House that it is the Government's firm intention to take a significant number of people from Syria this year.  We will give people refuge."  Abbott did not commit to an exact number, while Labor pressed the government to allow an extra 10,000 refugees.

Japan's profoundly troubled conglomerate Toshiba admitted to vastly overstating its earnings and posted a US$318 Million (A$460 Million) loss for the fiscal year that ended way back in March.  Toshiba's president and vice-president resigned in July after an independent panel discovered the company had basically been lying about its finances, exaggerating by about US$1.22 Billion in its initial attempt to report its earnings.  The correction has been twice delayed.  Toshiba shares were actually up on the news that the company is flushing out its cesspool of accounting irregularities.

Kurdish PKK rebels are blamed for landmines that took out two armored  military vehicles in southeast Turkey killing 15 soldiers according to local media reports.  Renewed fighting between the government and the PKK has killed some 200 people since July including 17 Turkish troops.  Meanwhile, Turkish police arrested a Dutch journalist trying to cover the story in southeast Turkey.  It's the second time this year they arrested Frederike Geerdink for supposedly entering a "forbidden zone", although she says there is no posting to warn people.  The earlier arrested ended with an acquittal in court.

The Palestinian mother of a baby killed in the 31 July arson attack blamed on Israeli extremists has herself died of her injuries.  27-year old Rebeh Dewabsha is the third member of the family to die as a result of the attack on her West Bank home, following her husband and their 18-month old son Ali.  The only survivor is four-year old Ahmed, who is said to be improving in hospital.  The attack was so vile that if prompted Israeli authorities to change its policies and subject suspected Jewish extremists and Israeli rightwingers to "administrative detention", which amounts to jail without trial in the name of public security.  So far, no one has been charged.

At least 15 people died in a tourist bus crash near the Brazilian resort town of Paraty.  This happened on a winding mountain road informally known as "God help me hill" that is feared its treacherous turns. 

Malaysian officials say the death toll from last week's migrant boat capsizing has grown to 61 lives lost.  The boat was taking migrant workers back home to Tanjung Balai in Indonesia's Sumatra province when it sank in rough conditions in the Malacca Strait last Thursday.

The Bangladesh Supreme Court lifted a ban on the film "Rana Plaza", which dramatizes the 2013 building collapse that killed 1,135 people from the point of view of a survivor.  A lower barred the film from being shown after being presented with a petition claiming it would be traumatizing to people who worked in the garment industry. 

Guatemala's presidential election appears to be going to a runoff between a TV comedian and a right-wing businessman.  46-year old Jimmy Morales' campaign slogan was "neither corrupt nor a thief", a reference to endemic corruption in Guatemala's government that was most recently demonstrated by the resignations and arrests of the president and vice president.  Trailing in second place is businessman Manuel Baldizon, whose political party backed the most recent president until he was arrested and ordered held in a military prison.