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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has finally come out with her views on Same Sex Marriage, saying she has "absolutely no concerns" about them.  However, the highly influential Ms. Bishop told Channel Ten's "The Project" that she backs a "plebiscite, where the Australian people get to have a vote on it, on an issue as fundamental as this, that goes to the very composition of our community, the way we feel about each other, how we treat each other".  She added, "I think the Australian people should have their say."

The airline that owns MetroJet Flight 7K9268 says "external" factors caused it to crash into Egypt's Sinai desert on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board - mostly Russian Tourists flying back north after holiday in the Sharm El-Sheikh resort.  Kogalymavia deputy general director Alexander Smirnov claimed it was "the only explanation".  But that drew a rebuke from Russian aviation head Aleksandr Neradko, who said the airline's explanation was "not based on any proper facts."  Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi also said it's way too early to come to any such conclusion.  And US intelligence chief James Clapper says there's no "direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet", although he "wouldn't rule it out".

Two European bodies are blasting Turkey's weekend elections which returned the AKP party of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as unfair and marred by violence.  The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) criticized the Erdogan government's repression of the media, and noted that violence in the Kurdish southeast "restricted some contestants' ability to campaign freely".  The government also closed Kurdish polling places at four o'clock in the afternoon on election day.  And Andreas Gross, head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), believes that the "campaign for these elections was characterized by unfairness and, to a serious degree, fear".  The AKP got about half of the vote, the Social Democrats came out with about a quarter, and the pro-Kurdish HDP just barely cleared the ten percent threshold to be represented in Parliament - despite blazingly obvious efforts to suppress the vote.

The Vatican has arrested two members of a special Papal Commission - a priest and a civilian - for allegedly leaking classified documents to the media.  Pope Francis set up the commission to help reform Church finances.  The two are believed to have passed documents to journalists investigating Vatican finances.  One of the supposed recipients is Gianluigi Nuzzi, the Italian journalist involved in the scandal of then-Pope Benedict XVI's butler who was found guilty of stealing and copying documents from the Pope's desk.

The United Nations says more refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe last month than in all of 2014.  "Last month was a record month for arrivals," said UN refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards - 218,394 people braved the dangerous crossing in October 2015.  That's around 2,200 more than 2014's twelve-month total.  Despite worsening weather and dangerous sea conditions, the multitudes are inspired by the thought that Europe is getting ready to shut its doors, and they want to make it in under the wire.

France police in Lyon have arrested two pilots who fled to France to avoid drug smuggling charges in the Dominican Republic.  Both men are French citizens, and claim their convictions were based on bias against their nationality.  DR Police deny that, pointing to the 680 Kilos of cocaine packed in 26 suitcases loaded on their plane in 2013.  Some feel it is unlikely that France will send Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos back to the Caribbean nation, as French criminal law has very high bars to clear before extraditing citizens.

Lebanon is charging a Saudi Arabian prince with drug smuggling.  Authorities haven't formally named him, but media accounts say it was Abdulmohsen bin Walid bin Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz Al Saud who was arrested at Beirut's airport last week with a planeload of "Captagon" amphetamine pills. 

The leaders of South Korea and Japan held a long-awaited summit.  President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe agreed to try to resolve the decades-old issue of Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II.  Not a breakthrough, but at least it's a step after a three and a half year freeze in relations.