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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fast-tracking plans for an additional 1,060 new apartments for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.  It comes as tensions with Palestinians are on the rise and relations with Washington are at a low.  The settlements in an area that Palestinians see as their future capital are illegal under international law. 

Authorities in Mexico announced the arrests of four more drug gang members in last month’s kidnapping and feared massacre of some 43-university students in the southern town of Iguala.  It comes alongside reports that yet another mass grave has been found in the hills around the troubled town.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is calling on Washington to intervene in the deteriorating situation in Jerusalem, where increased clashes between Palestinians and Israelis are leading to fears of an impending uprising, or intifada.

Any pretense that the Nigerian government had reached a cease fire with the Islamist terror group Boko Haram came crashing down with confirmation that the militants killed at least 17 people and abducted dozens in a series of attacks in Borno State.

The White House is ever-so-slightly pushing back against the mandatory 21-day quarantines that three governors have imposed on healthcare workers returning from heroic volunteering with groups fighting the West African Ebola Epidemic.  It comes as a nurse unfairly detained by New Jersey’s conservative governor plans to sue her way out.

Brazil’s President Dilma Roussett has won reelection after a bitterly fought run-off campaign against a more market-friendly challenger.  Although it extends Leftist rule in South America after 14 years, this election had one of the tightest results in recent Brazilian history.

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Japan’s new trade minister is not even a week into the job, and he’s got a second scandal bubbling up around him.  Earlier this week, Yoichi Miyazawa admitted that his political support group spent funds at an S&M Bar in Hiroshima.  Now, he’s admitting he owns shares in the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), even though his ministry oversees the nuclear power industry in Japan.

A Swiss restaurant and supermarket chain is apologizing to customers and has severed ties with the company that supplies dairy creamer packets for coffee, after the creamers showed up featuring images Benito Mussolini and the absolute worst person in history, Adolf Hitler.

The governor of Guerrero state in southern Mexico has stood down following increasingly violent protests over 43 missing students.  They were last seen being bundled into the back of police vans a month ago, allegedly on the orders of a local mayor and police chief.

Suspected militants with the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram abducted at least 25 girls during raids on two villages in a remote area of eastern Adamawa State.  The kidnappings happened after the Nigerian claimed to have reached a deal with the extremists for the release of more than 200 girls kidnapped from their school in Chibok town earlier this year.

The health minister of Mali confirms that the West African country is now dealing with its first case of Ebola.  The patient is a two-year old girl who had come from neighboring Guinea, and brought to hospital in the Malian town of Kayes.  That’s where workers took a blood sample and confirmed that the girl is Ebola positive.

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A Palestinian man appears to have deliberately veered out of traffic and rammed his car into a light rail stop near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, killing a three-month-old baby girl and injuring several other people.  Police shot the driver to death as he tried to flee the scene on foot.

The Greens are accusing the Abbott government of attempting to cover-up an asylum seeker's claims she was raped in detention on Nauru.  According to reports, the victim is an Iranian woman who was allegedly abused multiple times and is now pregnant.

A US federal jury has convicted four former Blackwater mercenaries guilty of murdering 17 Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, a rather despicable low point in the American occupation of a country that didn’t attack it first.