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A bomb on a subway train in Saint Petersburg, Russia killed eleven people and injured dozens more including several children.  But despite the intense damage, the conductor is being hailed as a hero because he didn't stop the train in the tunnel when the blast occurred; rather, he took the train to the next station where people could get off and seek help.  "I could see people lying on the platform and smoke," a witness named Oleg told local journalists.  "When the train stopped, people got out, but then the doors quickly closed and the train carried on to the next station."  Police later found a second device in another station and defused it before it could explode.  The attack may have been timed to coincide with Russian president Vladimir Putin's visit to his home town for a meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. 

Bombed Out Train Station

Authorities are hunting for two suspects for planning and carrying out this attack.  Some Russian media released a CCTV photo purportedly showing one of them, a man in a black overcoat and hat with a scruffy beard.  Authorities say it was a terror attack, although they are leaving the door open to other causes.

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Late in the day, some subway trains began moving again in Russia's western metropolis.  Vladimir Putin put flowers at a memorial near the blast site.

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A United Nations official says Australia must take steps to drive down Indigenous imprisonment rates, taking particular exception to the disproportionate number of Aboriginal children behind bars.  UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz said she was shocked and disturbed after a two week investigation during which she met with dozens of young people inside Townsville's Cleveland Youth Detention Center.  "Many of the crimes they have committed are really petty crimes.  Many of them have come from child protection systems, which means that the child protection systems are not working effectively," said Ms. Tauli-Corpuz as quoted by the ABC.  "Those children don't deserve to be in detention centers; more resources should be provided for early intervention and prevention."  These issues "need to be addressed" before Australia joined the United Nations Human Rights Council, according to the Special Rapporteur.

US Senate Democrats say they've got enough votes to filibuster the confirmation of Donald Trump's ultra-conservative Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.  But majority Republicans are threatening to change the rules so that for the first time in decades, they can install the judge with less than the 60 votes needed for past justices - a move known as "the nuclear option".  It would be a marked change from the Senate's traditional role as a slower-moving and more deliberative body that seeks national consensus - but Republicans these days are that craven.

Leftist candidate Lenin Moreno is the winner of Ecuador's presidential election, earning 51 percent of the vote while conservative banker Guillermo Lasso stood at just under 49 percent.  Naturally, Lasso is crying foul and demanding a recount.  Outgoing President Rafael Correa accused Lasso supporters of trying to deny the results and provoke violence, just as conservatives are doing in Venezuela.  "By force they want to achieve what they can't at the ballot box," said President Correa.  Meanwhile, unrest in Venezuela has been dialed back a bit after the supreme court took back a ruling to decertify the conservative-led legislature over its failure to kick out three lawmakers who used vote buying to get their jobs.

S&P Global has cut South Africa's bond rating to junk status after scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma sacked his finance minister.  S&P said the political loss of finance minister Pravin Gordhan is a danger to South Africa's economy.  The agency is also concerned with corruption and SA's debt.

A group of African diplomatic envoys is condemning recent racial violence against Nigerian students in India and the government's apparent indifference.  Last month, mobs attacked five Nigerian students in Greater Noida, close to Delhi, blaming them for an Indian student's drug overdose.  Another Nigerian was beaten by a mob inside a shopping mall.  Police arrested five men and India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has promised an "impartial" inquiry - but the diplomats say that's not good enough and called for an investigation by the UN Human Rights Council.

A Jewish community center in northern Sweden closed its doors because of harassment from a group of nazi scum.  Vandals targeted the center with swastikas and scrawled threats such as, "We know where you live".  Community spokeswoman Carinne Sjoberg saidpeople stopped coming to the center:  "My mother and father are (Holocaust) survivors, so this is not OK.  Enough is enough.  It was like stepping into their shoes in the 1930s."  The village of Umea was in the news two years ago when it held a march to commemorate Kristallnacht, the outbreak of mass violence against Jews in Nazi Germany in 1938 - but failed to invite the town's Jewish community.