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The fugitive leader of the so-called Islamic State reportedly detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and at least three of his children he used as human shields as US troops closed in on him in a tunnel beneath his hideout in Syria.  Donald Trump announced the operation on Sunday morning   after teasing it in a tweet on Saturday night.  Unfortunately, the televised announcement quickly devolved into Trump's self-serving hyperbole, out-and-out lies, and Obama derangement syndrome:  Trump claimed that the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was more important than the 2011 mission ordered by then-President Barack Obama that resulted in the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who unlike al-Baghdadi actually attacked in the 9/11 attacks that killed thousands.  Trump then repeated his false claim that he predicted bin Laden was a threat before anyone else.

Trump apparently didn't inform bipartisan leaders in the US Congress, claiming that Washington, DC was full of "leaks".  Democratic leaders were cautious in their response congratulating US troops and intelligence for a job well done, but noting that the terrorist organization IS still exists despite having its head cut off.  Trump profusely thanked Russia for its alleged involvement in the killing of Islamic State leader, but Russia didn’t seem to see it the same way.  "The Russian Defense Ministry does not believe in al-Baghdadi's liquidation," said Major General Igor Konashenkov, claiming Trump's story is self-contradictory and denying Trump's claim that Russia gave its permission to US forces to use its Syrian air space.  So, that's odd.

The Syrian Kurdish YPG said on Sunday that its forces on a joint raid with US troops located and killed a key deputy to al-Baghdadi, Islamic State spokesman Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir in northern Syria.  General Commander Mazloum Abdi said it was "a continuation of the previous operation" in which al-Baghdadi was killed and described the militant spokesman as Baghdadi's right-hand man.  According to Kurdish sources, the operations were in the works for several months before Trump spoke on Sunday morning, long before Trump betrayed the Kurds earlier this month by allowing Turkey to invade their territory in Syria.

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Doctors in Chile are accusing authorities of severely under-reporting the number of people injured by police in the massive anti-government demonstrations in Santiago and other cities.  The government claims 19 people have been killed, but hospitals say they're running out of emergency supplies and wards that usually serve people with the flu or involved in car wrecks are now filled with patients with head wounds inflicted by police.  Many hospital officials won't speak out for fear of being blacklisted by the nation's health ministry.  Cops are deliberately blinding protesters:  "The situation is atrocious," said a healthcare worker at Santiago's Posta Clinic, which serves mainly working-class patients, "Many patients have their eyes shattered.  We have never had so many ruptured eyes at once.  The rubber bullets and the buckshot don't kill, but they pierce the eye.  All the patients have a poor chance of regaining vision.  Many eyes have been lost."

Although only about one-fifth the size of yesterday's Catalan secession rally in Barcelona, thousands of people marched in a support for Spanish unity.  

More than 180,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders north of San Francisco, possibly the largest such evacuation in California's history, because of the erratic movement of a large wildfire being pushed by extremely power winds.  The Kincaide Fire has already destroyed several homes, businesses, wineries, and resorts in the region.  The same wind prompted the area's electric power company PG&E to shut down electricity for two million people for fear live transmission wires will break and spark new blazes.  Critics say the company should have spent the pat few decades maintaining and upgrading its power grid to withstand such winds.  At least one person is dead because of the blackout, an elderly Vietnam War vet whose oxygen device couldn't function without electricity.

The European Union on Monday or shortly thereafter is expected to approve another three-month delay to the Brexit, pushing the UK's possible/probably/eventual divorce from the EU to 31 January.

Germany's far-right AfD party rocketed to second place in the eastern state of Thuringia over the weekend, surpassing Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.  The most openly racist and xenophobic AfD group failed to beat Die Linke (The Left), the successor to the East German Communist Party which came in first place.  But Die Linke's coalition with The Greens and the Social Democrats no longer have a working majority in the state parliament.  AfD has no hope of entering power as all of the other parties will not enter into a coalition with it.  But the surge is disturbing, as the far right took votes away from the traditional right with a viciously ugly campaign featuring anti-Jewish rhetoric, nazi slogans, and death threats.