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Her government in shambles, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is vowing to fight on for her job and her Brexit deal, which does not appear to be very popular at this moment.  At least seven Tories resigned the government in protest, including some high profile names:  Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, his junior secretary Suella Braverman, Northern Ireland Minister Shailesh Vara among them.  Transport Minister Jo Johnson already quit last weekend, and another six Tories bailed back in July.  Conservative Party critics mainly say that the 585-page deal caves in to too many European Union demands.  One feature of the plan keeps Northern Ireland in the EU for the time being to avoid customs problems at the border with the Irish Republic; the Democratic Unionist Party says that's a non-starter.

The death toll in the California wildfires is 59 lives lost with dozens still unaccounted for. 

An Indonesian school teacher who recorded her boss sexually harassing her has been sentenced to six months in jail for "spreading indecent material" under the country’s electronic information and transactions law.  "She is a victim and she just wants justice," said the lawyer for 37-year old Baiq Nuril Maknun, who worked at a school on the island of Lombok.  "It is a travesty that while the victim of the alleged abuse has been convicted," said Amnesty Indonesia's executive director Usman Hamid, "Little if any action appears to have been taken by the authorities to investigate what appear to be credible claims."

Brazil's incoming Foreign Minister believes that global warming is a "Marxist plot" and that red meat, petrol, and hetereosexual sex are being "criminalized". Far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro picked far-right ideologue Ernesto Araujo to be the country's chief diplomat; until recently, Mr. Araujo was a mid-level bureaucrat with a blog of wacky conspiracy theories, and had never served in a foreign diplomatic posting.  The incendiary rhetoric is likely to horrify the global environmental movement which was already dreading Bolsonaro's plans to raze the rainforest for timber, agriculture, and mining.

Japan Airlines says twelve of its flights were delayed over the past 15 months because pilots failed to pass preflight alcohol tests.  On a further seven flights the pilots failed the drunk tests, but JAL managed to switch out the flight crews before the flights were delayed.  The revelation comes amind a government crackdown sparked by a spate of incidents in which personnel from JAL, All Nippon Airways, and Skymark Airlines Inc. breached rules on alcohol.