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At least 19 children and their bus driver died in a horror crash in South Africa.  Authorities say their minibus collided with a truck and burst into flame north of the capital Pretoria.  The trucker survived.  Despite having Africa's most modern road system, road fatalities are up an astounding 50 percent since this time last year.

After a week of violent protests led by Venezuela's conservative opposition, ten people were killed in a looting incident at a bakery in Caracas.  Video showed police opening fire on the mob.  Three others were killed earlier in the weekend in the opposition protests.  Democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro's term doesn't end until 2019 and the next election takes place in 2018, but it doesn't appear like the conservatives want to follow the rules. 

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) says there is little evidence of tax evasion by major multinational corporations.  This is despite several recent high profile cases, including just this week when the ATO itself won a AU$300 Million judgment against the US oil and gas giant Chevron.  "We have not seen significant evidence of large multinationals involved in tax evasion," the agency wrote to the ABC in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request on the subject.  "The ATO will pursue these matters through the courts if necessary to uphold the integrity of Australia's tax system," officials said.  The Australian Serious Financial Crime Task Force says it has recouped nearly $100 million for the Government's coffers since July 2015.

German police arrested a stock trader for detonating three bombs near the Borussia Dortmund football team bus almost two weeks ago.  Although police led the media to believe it was possibly committed by Islamists, it turns out the motive was capitalist terrorism:  Before the bombing, the suspect identified as "Sergej W" bought 15,000 so-called "put options" for shares in Borussia Dortmund and bet that the share price of the team would drop.  Prosecutors said, "A significant share price drop could have been expected if a player had been seriously injured or even killed as a result of the attack."  One player and one police officer were hurt, although the bombs were loaded with metal shrapnel:  "The man appears to have wanted to commit murder out of greed," said local Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger.

The first round of France's presidential election takes place this weekend, and it's anyone's guess what might happen.  The killing of a police officer and an apparent Islamist gunman on the Champs Elysees could tilt things towards Islamophobic far-right candidate Marine Le Pen of the formerly fringe National Front.  Before the shootings, many expected rookie politician and centrist Emmanuel Macron to finish slightly ahead of Le Pen.  The traditional Left and right parties are falling behind, and a fiery Socialist named Jean-Luc Melenchon has surged and could be a major disrupter or spoiler.  Security forces will protect voting booths this weekend.

The Champs Elysees gunman is identified as 39-year old Karim Cheurfi, a four time loser with convictions for attempted murder and car theft.  Authorities say he shot Officer Xavier Jugele twice in the head using an AK-47; other officers returned fired and killed him.  Police say he was on their radar, but Cheurfi had no links to Islamic extremism until this incident.  Xavier Jugele was not just a cop since 2010, but also a major supporter of LGBT rights who took part in demonstrations against Russia's homophobic laws.

A man who survived Chechnya's concentration camp for LGBT people says pro-Kremlin security forces beat him and subjected him to electro-shock torture.  The Russian republic's pogrom against gays was first reported by the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta and corroborated by Human Rights Watch.  The man identified himself as "Ruslan" to talk with the Western media:  "If beating you with their hands and feet is not enough, they use electric shock," Ruslan says.  "They have a special black box and they attach wires to your hands or ears.  The pain is awful.  It's terrible torture."  Homophobia has grown in Russia with Vladimir Putin, and is especially rampant in the Muslim southern areas such as Chechnya and the Caucuses.  

A South Korean man died from eating poisonous toads he had mistaken for edible Bullfrogs, the latter of which as a delicacy in his area near the city of Daejeon.  The dead guy and his friends caught five creatures, and cooked and ate them.  The friends got sick and recovered, no such luck for the main character of this story.  Tests on the uneaten parts revealed the presence of bufotenin, which is a chemical in toad poison.  In small amounts it is a hallucinogenic; in large amounts it is deadly.

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