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More than 60 people are still missing after the powerful earthquake in Taiwan, with seven confirmed dead and hundreds injured.  The temblor knocked over several high rise buildings in the island's popular tourist city of Hualien, including the now-famous Marshal Hotel which pancaked on the first two storeys.  Rain and aftershocks is making the search for survivors more difficult, especially in a 12-storey building that is leaning over to one side where most of the missing are believed to be trapped.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) has reached a coalition deal with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), potentially ending more than four months of political wrangling that followed the election.  But the deal has to be approved SPD members, and many of them fear a coalition will harm them in the long-term.  The SPD was bitterly divided over the talks with the CDU, which were approved by only a slim majority. 

Top White House aide Rob Porter will resign, denying allegations of spousal abuse that became public.  Porter is not well-known outside the White House, but is said to control the flow of information to the orange clown Donald Trump.  Two ex-wives say Porter beat them, one releasing a photo of a black eye she says Porter gave her on a vacation to Italy.  To give an idea of how this vile infestation in the White House views women: the FBI learned of the about the abuse allegations during Porter's White House background check, and he got the job anyway; White House Chief of Staff John Kelly praised his former pier as "a man of true integrity and honor and I can’t say enough good things about him" - AFTER the abuse allegations became public.

South African President Jacob Zuma could resign within days, after years of corruption allegations and economic incompetence.  Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is holding direct talks with Zuma over a transfer of power.  The Nelson Mandela Foundation is urging Zuma to stand aside "sooner rather than later", lambasting "systematic looting" during his nine years in power.

Medical and law enforcement authorities in India are investigating a quack doctor who allegedly infected dozens of patients with HIV because he kept reusing the same syringe.  The government organized an HIV screening of 566 people, and found 33 had been infected - the common link being that they were all patients of the doctor in Uttar Pradesh.  It happened as the country actually has made great progress in fighting the virus that causes AIDS - The United Nations says India has seen a 50 percent decline in the number of new HIV infections over the last decade.

Police in Brazil are searching for the leader of an evangelical religious group suspected of enslavement, human trafficking, and money laundering.  The story is familiar:  Recruiting weak or lost people in Sao Paulo, the sect known as "The Evangelical Community of Jesus, the Truth that Marks" would transport them to a rural commune, convince them to turn over their worldly possessions, and put them to work without pay.  Meanwhile, church leaders would sell off the stuff for profit and purchase cars, real estate, and bling for themselves.  Police arrested 13 people in the scam.

The European Parliament dismissed one of its vice presidents, Ryszard Czarnecki of Poland's ruling PiS party, for comparing a fellow Polish MEP from a  rival party to a Nazi collaborator.  Roza Thun told German broadcasters that Poland was moving itself towards dictatorship under PiS, and Czarnecki responded by losing his temper.  He and will continue serving as a member of European Parliament.  If you're keeping score:  YES, it was Poland's ruling party that passed a law making it illegal to refer to Polish collaboration in the nazi Holocaust, so only members of the ruling party get to call other people nazis, which sounds like dictatorship to me.

Scientists in England ran the DNA of the oldest set of human bones on the island, a 10,000 year old specimen named "Cheddar Man" - and discovered that the man had dark skin, high cheekbones, blue eyes, and coarse black hair.  It suggests that so-called "white skin" is a very recent evolutionary development.  Cheddar was a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer whose ancestors migrated into Europe at the end of the last Ice Age.  His bones were found in the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset County in 1903.