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Actor Gene Wilder, who starred in some of the funniest film comedies of all time, is dead of complications from Alzheimer's Disease at age 83.  His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement that "this illness-pirate, unlike in so many cases, never stole his ability to recognize those that were closest to him, nor took command of his central-gentle-life affirming core personality".  A prolific actor on and off Broadway in the 1960s, Wilder then teamed with Mel Brooks in the movies "The Producers", "Blazing Saddles", and "Young Frankenstein";  his turn as the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is a children's classic; and his unlikely pairing with Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" updated and set he standard for the buddy comedy format for decades to come.  Wilder raised money and awareness for cancer research after the death of his third wife comic actress Gilda Radner and won an Emmy for a guest spot on the groundbreaking sit-com "Will and Grace" a decade ago.

Suspended Brazil President Dilma Rousseff urged the Senate to reject impeachment, reminding lawmakers of her past as a tortured political prisoner of the junta, and said that her ouster would amount to a coup d'etat and the loss of democracy.  Right-wing lawmakers are unlikely to be moved by this.  They charged her with illegally covering up a budget with a commonly-used accounting tactic.  Ms. Rousseff maintained she did nothing illegal and always upheld the constitution.

Police in County Cavan, Ireland are appealing to the public for information about a family of five found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.  In a country where these sorts of acts of violence are rare, the sight of five hearses lined up outside the home in Barconey outside Ballyjamesduff shocked and upset neighbors.  The family have been named locally as Alan and Clodagh Hawe and their sons Liam, Ryan, and Niall, aged six- through 13-years.  Clodagh was a well-liked school teacher.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says an Australian aid worker who was kidnapped in Afghanistan earlier this year is now "safe and well".  Uniformed gunmen kidnapped Kerry Jane "Katherine" Wilson from the offices of the NGO Zardozi in Jalalabad, near the Pakistan border.  The group helps women start businesses.

The so-called Islamic State is claiming credit for a car bombing in Yemen that killed at least 60 people.  The attacker targeted a training center used by the pro-government Popular Resistance militia.  During the last year and half of fighting between Houthi insurgents, the government and its Saudi allies, and Islamic State 6,600 people have been killed and 2.5 million are displaced.

The US is warning its NATO ally Turkey against any more military strikes targeting US-backed rebels in Syria.  Ankara considers the Kurdish militants to be terrorists because of links to Kurdish separatists in Turkey.  But the Kurdish YPG militia - the most-effective fighting force against Islamic State - says Turkey's growing involvement in Syria is merely a cover to occupy Syrian territory.

Ukraine has moved the Roma residents out of a town in the southwest, after a weekend of violence in which furious villagers raided and burned several Roma homes.  This followed the rape and murder of a nine-year old girl, which locals blamed on the Roma (without trial or evidence).  More than 70 percent of Europe's twelve million Roma are poor, marginalized, and targets of this kind of idiocy all too often.

The fight against racism and ignorance is never going to end, is it?  A South African minister is supporting striking female students at a prestigious Pretoria school that is apparently pressuring black girls to straighten their hair.  "Schools should not be used as a platform to discourage students from embracing their African identity," Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa tweeted.  The school hasn't responded.  Pretoria Girls High has no such hair requirement in its guidelines, but students say that hasn't stopped school officials from harassing black girls.

A freak lightning strike in Norway killed a herd of 323 reindeer, their carcasses littering the Hardangervidda plateau.  The national park hosts Europe's largest herd of some 10,000 wild reindeer.  The animals tend to huddle together during storms, but mass deaths of his magnitude are extremely rare.