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Super Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into southern China near Jiangmen city and caused flooding in Hong Kong.  As many as 2.45 million people had been evacuated before the eye rolled across the shore.  Over the weekend, the storm killed at least 66 people in the Philippines, most by mudslides. 

In the US, the death toll from Storm Florence is at least 15 lives lost across two states and the worst is yet to come.  Because although the winds have died down, the rain just keeps coming - rolling down the Appalachian Mountains into rivers and valleys of the Carolinas until it can go no further and fills up low-lying neighborhoods.  More than 760,000 homes and business have had their power cut; authorities are investigating more than 500 complaints of price gouging for things like fuel, food, bottled water, and hotel rooms in evacuation areas.

The woman accusing US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape when they were in high school has come forward.  Christine Blasey Ford is a professor of psychology with the Stanford University-aligned Palo Alto University.  She tells the Washington Post that Kavanaugh was drunk when he pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothing.  "When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth," the newspaper reported, but she did get away.  Kavanaugh refuted the story last week:  "I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time."  Republicans still plan to rush through the conservative Roman Catholic jurist's confirmation, despite the new allegations that the FBI has not had time to investigate.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is demanding the UK hold a second referendum on leaving the European Union.  With six months to go until the two go separate ways, he accuses the Tory government of Theresa May of failing to secure any meaningful progress with the EU over trade deals, or even border security at Northern Ireland's frontier with the rest of Ireland which is committed to the EU.  "I don't believe May has the mandate to gamble so flagrantly with the economy and people's livelihoods," wrote Khan in the Observer, accusing the May government of being "unprepared and out of its depth" in negotiations with Brussels.  May's cabinet has been plagued with infighting on how to proceed.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition faces a large division over security chief Hans-Georg Maassen, after it was revealed he failed to act for several months on reports that youth groups of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were becoming increasingly radicalized and violent, while actually passing information to the AfD. This came as Maassen was already under intense criticism for downplaying the recent wave of anti-immigrant violence in Chemnitz, and even denying the video evidence that showed far-right mobs chasing and harassing people.  Merkel will hold meetings this week on Maassen's future, if he has any.   Meanwhile, Chemnitz police arrested another group of far right thugs who broke off of a larger anti-immigration rally and went out to hunt and harass those they perceived to be foreigners.  It's the latest in a string of anti-immigrant crimes by the far-right in eastern Germany.

A member of the Russian punk-protest group Pussy Riot is now in hospital in Germany, after being transferred by jet.  Kremlin critic Pyotr Verzilov - known to soccer fans as one of the people who ran onto the field during the World Cup final - fell ill late last week, losing his sight, speech, and ability to walk.  His wife, also a member of the group, says he was poisoned.  Other members of the group appeared at Chicago's annual punk festival Riot Fest vowed that the poisoners would be held accountable.

The Orthodox Church is splitting in half.  The Russian Orthodox Church is breaking off from the main group, led by Constantinople (Istanbul) Patriarch Bartholomew, over the leader's plans to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as a separate entity from the Moscow Church.  This is a very big deal to Russians, who trace their very early history beginning in Crimea, to Kiev, to Moscow in the 1600s.  But Ukrainians were insulted by what they perceived as Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill's support of the Russian annexation of Crimea and separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.  The Kremlin denies involvement.  The Orthodox Church has 250 - 300 million members; 150 million of them are in the Russian branch - making this the largest Christian schism since the Orthodox broke off from the Roman Catholic Church in 1054.