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Mexico has released a woman from prison after she spent three years there on a blatantly wrongful murder conviction following a miscarriage.  An appeals court said the evidence used to convict now 29-year old Daphne McPherson of drowning her baby in a retail store toilet was flimsy.  She had bitter words for the prosecutors: "They didn't investigate - they didn't do a thing," Ms. McPherson said, "That's why there are people inside who shouldn't be in prison."  McPherson has always insisted that she never even knew she was pregnant when she miscarried.  

At least seven people are dead and another 200 people are missing or trapped by mudslides and sludge following a dam collapse at an iron ore mine in eastern Brazil.  This happened at Vale SA's Mina Feijao mining operation in the town of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais.  Authorities fear the death toll will continue to rise and a rescue operation is underway.

Brazil's first openly gay congressman has resigned and fled the country after mounting death threats in the age of far-right, homophobic president Jair Bolsonaro.  "We have done much for the common good. And we will do much more when the new era arrives, and it doesn't matter that we do it by other means!" Jean Wyllys wrote on social media at the outset of his self-imposed exile.  "Thank you to all of you with all my heart."  Mr Wyllys is set to be replaced by David Miranda - another openly gay politician from the Socialism and Liberty Party who vows to keep fighting Bolsonaro and the far-right.

US Congressional Democrats reached a deal with Donald Trump to temporarily end the US government shutdown on its 35th day.  Pressure had been building on Trump as major East Coast airports slowed down because federal employees who were being forced to work without pay began calling in sick en masse.  The deal only lasts for three weeks, but represents the second time Trump has caved in to Democrats in recent days.  There is no money allocated for his proposed wall on the southern border - but he insists that he will have to get some in whatever permanent deal is reached three weeks from now, or the shutdown begins again. 

FBI agents acting on a warrant from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller raided the Florida home of Roger Stone, a long-time Republican party dirty trickster and close confidante of Donald Trump.  Charged with with obstruction, lying to Congress, and witness tampering, the judge released Stone on US$250,000 bail.  Stone says he did nothing wrong and will not testify against Donald Trump in the probe into Russia's corruption of the 2016 US presidential election.

Greece's Parliament approved a measure to recognize Macedonia's name change to the Republican of North Macedonia, despite polls showing a majority of Greeks opposing it.  Nationalists believe the name Macedonia should only refer to Greece's northern province around the city of Thessaloniki.  But the measure ends a 27 year diplomatic row that had Athens blocking its smaller neighbor from joining the European Union and NATO because of its name. 

At least five people died when a helicopter collided with a small air plane over the Alps where Italy meets France.  Rescuers pulled at least two people from the wreckage and sent them to hospital near La Thuile, a popular ski resort in the border region.

One of South Africa's top institution's The University of Pretoria is dropping Afrikaans as its official language, and will teach most classes in English instead.  Afrikaans is the increasingly obscure dialect spoken by the descendants of White Dutch colonizers, and rarely spoken by indigenous blacks.  Critics say the use of Afrikaans at University was a form of racism meant to humiliate and exclude the black majority from getting an education in their own country.