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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is considering a leadership challenge to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull according to Fairfax media, which spoke with Dutton's supporters.  This comes after a Fairfax-Ipsos poll over the weekend showed that support for the Coalition has dropped from 39 to 33 percent over the past month because of its lack of unity on energy policy and speculation over the leadership, and could lose more than 20 seats at a general election.  Dutton reportedly spent the weekend consulting with Liberal MPs about a spill.  "There are some people who don't support the current leader and that is quite obvious," said cabinet minister Christopher Pyne, who insisted to Fairfax that Mr. Turnbull still has majority support despite the rifts.

Daylight will reveal the extent of damage caused by last night's earthquake in Lombok; a magnitude 6.3 temblor killed one person and wrecked homes near the town of Belanting on Sunday, but that was followed by a far more powerful 7.0 quake and strong aftershocks.  it knocked out power to large portions of the island that had just gotten it reconnected after the killer quakes a fortnight ago.  Almost 500 people have been confirmed dead after powerful quakes in Lombok in July and August.

Monsoon rains have eased in India's Kerala state, greatly easing the work of rescue crews searching the flood areas by boat, helicopter, or my wading.  More than 350 people are dead, and thousands remain marooned on roofs, in trees, or on high ground.

White House counsel Don McGahn, a close confidante to Donald Trump, has reportedly been cooperating with the Russian Corruption probe led by special prosecutor Robert Mueller.  The New York Times revealed that McGahn has spoken to Mueller's team for more than 30 hours over the past nine months.  Although Trump later claimed that McGahn was no "rat", Politico reported that tensions between the two have been high for months, and other reports indicate McGahn was fearful that Trump was about to serve him up as a scapegoat.  And then a new report in the paper said Trump's lawyers were scrambling to find out what McGahn said to Mueller.  McGahn is the White House counsel, meaning that his job is to protect the US Presidency, not necessarily that man who sits in the Oval Office.

A White House aide who went to a conference also attended by white nationalists and other racists has left the administration.  The H. L. Mencken Club Conference - named for the US writer and journalist whose posthumously-published diaries revealed racist views - was two years ago, and it's not clear why policy aide Darren Beattie left at this late date.  CNN went after the story last week, but the White House asked the news network to hold off on it for several days.  Eventually, a third-string spokesman acknowledged that Beattie was out, without giving a reason.

Cyprus has returned an Egyptian man who hijacked a passenger plane two years ago.  EgyptAir flight MS181 was supposed to carry 63 passengers and crew from Alexandria to Cairo, but Seif al-Din Mustafa alleged bluffed the flight crew with a fake suicide belt and ordered them to fly to Cyprus in March 2016.  No one was hurt.  Mr. Mustafa fought extradition for two years saying he wouldn't get a fair trial; now he gets to find out.