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The death toll in the Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami is increasing rapidly, with 832 lives lost and still a lot of work to do before a final tally is determined; Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said the final death toll could be thousands.  With power and construction gear in short supply in Palu city on Sulawesi island, rescuers are digging by hand to free people from the debris.  "What we now desperately need is heavy machinery to clear the rubble," said Muhammad Syaugi, head of the national search-and-rescue agency, "I have my staff on the ground, but it's impossible just to rely on their strength alone to clear this."  Supplies are running out and people are getting desperate:  ""Every minute an ambulance brings in bodies. Clean water is scarce," said survivor Risa Kusuma, "The minimarkets are looted everywhere."

Macedonia reports low turnout in the referendum on changing the country's name, but an overwhelming vote for the "Yes" side.  That means Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will ask parliament to rename the country "North Macedonia", which would lead to European Union and NATO memberships.  The "No" side appears to have sat out the referendum in protest.  Not changing the name would have left unresolved a long-running dispute with Greece which also claims "Macedonia" for its northern territories.  Nationalists on both sides of the border opposed the name change, as does Russia which would like to throw as many spanners as possible into NATO and EU expansion plans. 

The new governor of the southwestern Japanese islands of Okinawa is Denny Tamaki, a critic of the massive US military presence and opponent of base expansion.  This throws into question the US military and Japanese government's plans to expand bases which already account for 64 percent of Okinawa's usable land.  Mr. Tamaki has a Western name because the father he never met was a US Marine who skipped out in 1959 when he was born, leaving his Japanese single mother to raise a mixed-race child in an era when that really wasn't very popular.  "I can clearly state we no longer want in Okinawa the US bases that destroy our peace and destroy our nature," said Tamaki in the run-up to his election victory.

The US FBI will investigate the claims of only two accusers of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh:  Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified before the Senate last week, and Deborah Ramirez have separately accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during his high-priced private prep school and college years in the early 1980s.  Only Ramirez will be interviewed.  But there are concerns that the Trump White House is limiting the scope of the investigation by barring agents from talking to a third accuser, Julie Swetnick, who claims she was gang-raped by Kavanaugh and his friends.  Swetnick's attorney, Michael Avenatti, wrote on Twitter, "How do you conduct a legitimate, fair (and) thorough investigation into allegations unless you interview the person actually making the allegations about her experiences, what she witnessed, and what facts and other witnesses she is aware of?  Answer – YOU CAN'T.  And that's by design."

Brazil's far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro says he would only accept the result of the 7 October presidential election if he wins, which pretty much sums up his commitment to democracy.  Over the weekend, tens of thousands of Brazilian women and their male supporters rallied in cities from the Amazon to Sao Paulo in the south to oppose Bolsonaro.  Despite a litany of racist, sexist, homophobic, and generally intolerant, inflammatory, and borderline violent statements, he leads in polling of the first round of elections - maybe not so much in the second.

Cameroon President Paul Biya says says Boko Haram has been defeated in the country, his first such pronouncement since he declared war on the extremist group four years ago.  Biya has been in power since 1982 and is likely to be "reelected" in the 7 October election, since the opposition is in disarray.  But the French-speaking 85-year old faces new challenges because even if Boko Haram no longer vexes his country, there is a growing English-language separatist movement in the south and northwest.