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There is a new problem falling on northern California, where a devastating wildfire killed 81 people and destroyed more than 13,500 homes.  Storms have moved into the Sierra Nevada mountains and is expected to dump ten to 15 centimeters of rain through Friday, local time.  And while that will superficially aid firefighters battling the Camp Fire, it could cause big problems on the ground when it mixes with untold tons of ash and dirt now that the ground cover has been burned away.  Searchers fear that human remains could be washed away with 870 people still unaccounted for by authorities.  It's also drenching evacuee camps in the Central Valley.

An American missionary is dead, his arrow-ridden body left on the beach of Sentinel Island in the Andaman Sea which is off-limits to outsiders because of the extremely hostile uncontacted indigenous group that lives there and would like to stay uncontacted.  Fishers tried to dissuade 27-year old John Chau, a physical education graduate of the fundamentalist Oral Roberts University in the US; but they brought him close anyway.  Chau continued in a canoe, and the tribes killed him as soon as he reached land.  Chau left a note with the fishers claiming that "Jesus had bestowed him with the strength to go to the most forbidden places on Earth".  The indigenous advocacy group Survival International blamed India for failing to enforce its own cultural and biological quarantine on its island, which serves as a protected preserve for the Sentinelese.

Delegates at Interpol's conference at Dubai rejected the Russian candidate for head of the international police agency and instead chose South Korean Kim Yong-jang, who was preferred by the US and its allies.  The surprising strength of Russian police official Alexander Prokopchuk set off red alerts in Western capitals, with a great deal of that concern coming from Russia's history of trying to use Interpol's arrest warrant system to target critics of the Kremlin.  One Belgian official warned "democratic and free countries may need to develop a parallel organization" if Prokopchuk had been elected.  Mr. Kim, a veteran of South Korea's national police, will serve a two year term.  Interpol mostly coordinates international arrest warrants.

Poland's ruling party is backing off plans to force judges to retire, and will reinstate those who have already stepped down.  The far-right PiS government came up with the scheme to lower the judicial retirement age to clear the court of opponents and remove judges appointed during the Communist era.  The European Union strongly opposed this attempt to exert total control over the independent judiciary, and last month the European Court of Justice ruled against PiS's plans. 

A US Federal judge ruled that America's 1996 ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) is unconstitutional, dropping nearly the charges against a Michigan doctor accused of performing the despicable practice on at least nine underage girls.  Judge Bernard Friedman - appointed by then-president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s - wrote that "Congress overstepped its bounds" in banning FGM, calling it a "local criminal activity" that was up to the states to regulate.  In short, the same old-same old paleo-conservative "states rights" reasoning that has plagued the US over the years.  FGM is illegal in 44 countries and the West has been waging campaigns throughout the Islamic world to expand the bans.  Old man Friedman's ruling throws a spanner in that effort.

PM Scott Morrison plans to go ahead with a meeting with Muslim leaders in Melbourne, even though many of those invited said they'd boycott.  A group of nine including Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohamed said that Mr. Morrison should not have demanded that the Muslim community do more to combat terrorism, after the 11 November attack on Bourke Street.  The group said the scolding infers "that the community is collectively culpable for the criminal actions of individuals and should be doing more to prevent such acts of violence".  Instead of helping, the group said that Morrison has "alienated large segments of the Muslim community".  

"Bali 9" drug smuggler Renae Lawrence has been released by Indonesia and is back in Australia.

Tokyo authorities are extending Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's detention for another ten days.  He was arrested earlier this week for allegedly under-reporting his income and illegally using company assets for personal activities.