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Doctors are ordering Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to take a month off because of a subdural hematoma on her brain, apparently undetected after she took a fall two months ago.  It comes at an inopportune time for Fernandez.

There’s a new trade in Jamaica in something illicit, something green, but it’s not what you might think.  Conservationists are worried because some serious misinformation has people eating Crocodile meat.

What was supposed to be a commemoration of the 40^th Anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war turned into clashes between Egyptian police and the Muslim Brotherhood supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi.  At least 44 people are dead and scores more are injured.

A terrorist’s decade and a half on the lam comes to an end – A politician is brutally stabbed by the people he was defending – Irish voters defy polls that indicate a major change was ordained on the Emerald Isle.

Hundreds are unaccounted for in the immigrant shipwreck off an Italian island – A military leader who outfought and outlasted two superpowers is dead – And the sun sets on Silvio.

An outspoken Muslim cleric is either warning or threatening fans planning to attend the upcoming concerts planned by openly gay entertainer Elton John, who spoke out in support of Russia’s embattled LGBT community.

After the international community failed to come through on a plan to pay Ecuador to preserve an unblemished stretch of Amazon rainforest, lawmakers have authorized plans to drill for oil in Yasuni National Park.

Chaos in the US Capitol – The Philippines begins recriminations for last month’s southern rebellion – Japan discovers the cause of the latest radiation leak at Fukushima.

As bad as the US government shutdown is, there’s an even more dire showdown in Washington, DC over the Debt Limit, and if it threatens an upheaval to the world economy as bad or worse than the crash of 2008.

International inspectors working to scrap Syria cache of chemical weapons are reporting “encouraging initial progress” in their mission.  The advance team is planning to begin onsite inspections and to begin disabling equipment within a week.

Friday will be a national day of mourning in Italy, after at least 130 people died when a boat carrying African asylum seekers caught fire, capsized and sank just a few hundred meters off the Italian island of Lampedusa.  It’s believed to be one of the worst such disasters in the Mediterranean.

The United Nations Security Council is urging the Syrian government to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and calling on all parties in the Syrian Civil War to agree to pauses in fighting to let the aid convoys through.

China is abuzz with news of the Killer Hornets.  More than 1,600 people have been attacked by the monstrously big Vespa Mandarinia in central Shanxi Province, and at least 41 people have died of multiple stings.

Gambia’s dictator Yahya Jamah is pulling his nation out of the Commonwealth of Nations, saying it will “never be a member of any neo-colonial institution.”  Gambia has been part of the Commonwealth since gaining independence in 1965, and is the first nation to leave since Zimbabwe ten years ago.

US President Barack Obama hosted congressional leaders at the White House to discuss a path to end the impasse on a temporary spending plan that has shut down the US government; they didn’t find one.  And it’s because conservatives are trying to tank the US Affordable Care Act, which brings low cost healthcare to millions of uninsured people.

The operator of Japan's crippled, radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear plant is admitting another tank holding highly contaminated water has sprung a leak.  This comes as Japan’s most-popular Prime Minister of recent decades has changed his mind about nuclear power.

Preparations for the World Cup grind to a halt because of serious worker safety issues – A best-selling author dies at one of America’s best cancer hospitals – And Silvio Berlusconi is humbled.

A Belgian man requested and was granted euthanasia after a botched gender reassignment operation left him feeling he was a “monster”.  The doctor who ended the man’s life says he was suffering physically and psychologically.

Greece seeks to deprive its troublesome neo-nazi party of its rhetorical weapons – Russia goes for the harshest charges against the Greenpeace 30 – And the Pope lurches the church to more openness and less Vatican.

A man who spent forty years in solitary confinement in a Louisiana prison for a murder he has steadily maintained he did not commit has been released after a judge ordered Herman Wallace’s conviction overturned.  Wallace is dying of liver cancer and might have just days to live.