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Several rockets hit the Baghdad "Green Zone", hours after security forces clashed with thousands of Shia Muslim protesters who stormed the seat of Iraqi power demanding electoral reform.  At least five people are dead in the clashes.  The rockets are believed to have originated from the Sadr City area of Baghdad where Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is based.  The Shia say the current Iraqi electoral commission is biased because all of its members are affiliated with political parties.

Australia stripped the citizenship of Khaled Sharrouf for his terrorist activities with the so-called Islamic State, making him the first such dual national stripped of Australian citizenship under anti-terrorism laws.  There is an active arrest warrant for Sharrouf, even though he is believed to have been killed in a 2015 drone strike in Syria.  Sharrouf gained infamy for posing in photographs with the severed heads of Syrian soldiers in 2014.

Six people died and more than 100 are injured in an earthquake in the Philippines.  The magnitude 6.7 quake was centered around Surigao City in the south.  The local governor says infrastructure in the city and eleven other towns is damaged, and there are widespread power outages.

Some of the striking police officers in Espirito Santo state in Brazil have gone back to work, but the crime wave marked by hundreds of murders continues.  And friends and relatives of the police officers are continuing their week-long blockade of the barracks, preventing most vehicles from exiting and thus paralyzing the force.  Using friends and families to maintain the lines gets around a law forbidding cops from going on strike.

The mental patient who decapitated and partially ate a man on a bus in Canada in 2008 is free.  The criminal review board of Manitoba province gave Will Baker - formerly known as Vince Li - a full discharge after finding he was no longer a threat to society.  The mother of the victim blasted the decision, nothing that it is impossible for authorities to ensure Baker will take his medication.

Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden says reports that Russia wants to send him back to the US as a gift to their best buddy Donald Trump is proof that he's not a spy for Russia (or maybe it just means you've overstayed your welcome and you've nothing left to trade for asylum?).  "Finally: irrefutable evidence that I never cooperated with Russian intel," Snowden wrote  on Twitter.  "No country trades away spies, as the rest would fear they're next."  Snowden suggested that the Kremlin might want to return him because of his criticism of the Putin regime's human rights record. 

Australia stripped the citizenship of Khaled Sharrouf for his terrorist activities with the so-called Islamic State, making him the first such dual national stripped of Australian citizenship under anti-terrorism laws.  There is an active arrest warrant for Sharrouf, even though he is believed to have been killed in a 2015 drone strike in Syria.  Sharrouf gained infamy for posing in photographs with the severed heads of Syrian soldiers in 2014.

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