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Australia's same-sex marriage plebiscite is expected to slam into a roadblock today:  The opposition will meet in Canberra and formalize its position to reject the idea, which would place the question of same sex marriage rights up for a popular vote.  The Greens and the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT, which sounds like an energy drink so wth) have already said they would block the plebiscite, a key campaign promise from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.  The position against the plebiscite is summed up by Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus:  "The community has now reached a position where I think there's an overwhelming majority of people who say to the Parliament of Australia, just get on with it," he told the ABC.

The meltdown in the US Republican party is getting even more entertaining:  House Speaker Paul Ryan says he will no longer defend nor campaign with presidential candidate and fascist demagogue Donald Trump, after the release of a video tape showing Trump bragging about getting away with sexually assaulting women because he's a "star".  Ryan's comments are the signal to every Republican running for office in the US that they are now free to reject and condemn the sinking candidate at the top of the ticket to save their own races:  "You all need to do what's best for you in your district," Ryan was quoted as telling colleagues.  Trump responded with a tweet saying Ryan shouldn't "waste his time" fighting the republican nominee.

US Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rocketed to an eleven-point lead over Trump in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll.  Taken after the release of the vulgar video and before Trump's bitter and menacing appearance at Sunday night's debate, it shows 46 percent of US Voters preferring Hillary Clinton for President; Trump trails with 35 percent; minor party candidates Gary "What's Aleppo?" Johnson and Jill Stein with nine and one percent, respectively.  With the third party candidates taken out, Hillary's lead over Trump grows to 14 points, 52 percent to Trump's 38 percent.  A month remains until the US presidential election.

The UN is making an urgent appeal for US$120 Million in aid for hurricane-ravaged Haiti.  Because of category four Hurricane Matthew last week, "Hundreds have died; at least 1.4 million people need assistance at this time," said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.  "Some towns and villages have been almost wiped off the map; crops and food reserves have been destroyed; at least 300 schools have been damaged," Mr. Ban added.  Since the storm, dozens of new cases of cholera have been reported, adding to the already-impoverished nation's woes.  More than 900 Haitians died in the hurricane; prior to that, 9,200 died in the cholera epidemic that was brought to the nation by UN peacekeepers following the 2010 earthquake; 160,000 to 360,000 died in the earthquake itself.

French President Francois Hollande is suggesting that Russia could face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its bombardment of Syria's second city Aleppo.  Neither Russia nor Syria is a member of the ICC.  President Hollande also hinted he might refuse to meet Vladimir Putin when the Russian leader visits France next week.  Russia denies attacking civilians in Aleppo, and last week vetoed a Franco-Spanish UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to the bombing.

The presidents of Russia and Turkey are pledging to deepen military cooperation after the two countries signed a gas deal.  The agreement calls for pipelines to be built under the Black Sea to send gas from Russia to Turkey.  Relations between Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan were strained last year when Turkey shot down a Russia fighter jet that strayed along its southern border.  But the two appeared at a news conference in Istanbul saying they hope that relations would be normalized fairly quickly.

UK police arrested former "Page 3" girl Kimberly Miners for alleged social media ties to Islamic State.  Cops picked up the 27-year-old woman from Bradford, Yorkshire for questioning under section 58 of the Terrorism Act, and freed on bail.  Ms. Miners reportedly denies converting to radical Islam, changing her name of Aisha al-Britani, and attempting to marry a jihadist; she does admit twice traveling to Turkey.