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Samsung has permanently stopped production of its flagship smart phone the Galaxy Note 7, after a second round of phones burst into flames despite a recall that was supposed fix to the problem of overheating batteries.  Customers are urged to power down the units and return them.  Samsung earlier declared that it would halt global sales of the big, giant, flaming smartphones; as a result, its stock is down eight percent.  It leaves Apple alone at the top of the premium smartphone market.

Is it still a smartphone if it's used by a total dumbarse?  US Republican party presidential candidate demonstrated his inability to let go of grudges with a twitter tirade against US House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest ranking Republican in government who freed his party's candidates to distance themselves from Trump's caustic campaign.  The orange anus tweeted that Ryan is a "weak and ineffective leader" and that "It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me".  A new Atlantic PRRI poll shows Trump trailing Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton by eleven points, and by nine points in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken after the debate.

Trump has also been caught reciting Kremlin propaganda at a rally in Colorado.  Trump told his deplorables that he was quoting an email from a Clinton aide named Sydney Blumenthal - now the subject of as many conservative conspiracy theories as George Soros.  However, what Trump recited was actually a misquote from a Newsweek article, and the only place the misquote appeared was on a Russian propaganda website called Sputnik.  US and Western intelligence officials believe that Trump's connections to Russia are a threat to the US and its allies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled his scheduled visit to France, without disclosing a reason.  But this comes after French President Francois Hollande said he would not greet the Russian leader because Russia's bombing of Aleppo in Syria - and he would meet Putin only if they discussed ways to slow the Syrian Civil War.  Apparently, Putin isn't interested in that.  France earlier brought a resolution to the UN Security Council to demanded an immediate end to airstrikes in the besieged Syrian city, which was immediately vetoed by Russia. 

Last year's cyber attack on Australia's Bureau of Meteorology was carried out by a foreign power, breached computers throughout the federal government, and was carried out with the intention of stealing secret files.  The 2016 Australian Cyber Security Centre Threat report on the hack is due to be released today, and will detail how malware popular with state-sponsored actors was used, and how Australia's cyber-security was not up to the task of stopping the attack.  It will not name a state actor, but the ABC previously reported that it had been told China was responsible.

Rome officially abandoned its bid for the 2024 Olympics.  Costs too much, produces too little, and the money would be better spent on people, say officials.

A prominent Nigerian Islamic cleric is threatening to label Muslim lawmakers as "unbelievers" if they support a proposed Gender-Equality bill.  This is a watered-down version of a bill rejected by the senate last month.  Sheikh Isyaka Rabiu of the Tijjaniya Brotherhood claims a rather innocuous saying that men and women and should be equal in the matter of inheritances is un-Islamic.  The leading Christian group does not object, and Nigerian Human Rights workers say they are embarrassed that their country has yet to pass a gender equity bill.

Haiti's interim president Jocelerme Privert said famine could take hold within three to four months, if aid doesn't come soon. The country was already poor when Hurricane Matthew slammed it last week, killing hundreds of people mainly on the southern peninsula.  But it also damage crops and infrastructure throughout the western part of Hispaniola Island in the Caribbean.  President Privert says food, water and medicine are immediately needed.