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The Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was seriously hurt evading capture in the country's northwest. Officials are not releasing many details, other to say we was injured in the face and legs. Police and troops are hunting El Chapo after his escape from Mexico's most-secure prison earlier this year, through a 1.5 kilometer tunnel that was loudly dug from the outside to the shower stall in his cell. The episode is an embarrassment for the government pf President Enrique Pena Nieto, who campaigned on protecting the country from the drug cartels that actually run the areas outside of the capital.
An anti-immigration extremist stabbed the leading candidate for mayor of Cologne, Germany. Police say 58-year old Henriette Reker is in a "stable" condition, but "not out of the woods". Police arrested a 44-year old man identified as "Frank S." who police "said he had a racist motivation for committing this act," according to Cologne police spokesman Norbert Wagner. Officially, Germany is expected to take in at least 800,000 refugees and migrants this year. But a leaked report cited by the newspaper Bild says that number could be more like 1.5 million.
Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians who allegedly stabbed or tried to stab Israelis. What has the Israeli police flummoxed is that the stabbings are largely copycat attacks with no organization. The Israeli response is as disproportionate as most of the conflicts in recent years: Seven Israelis died in the ghastly and shocking attacks, but police have shot and killed 40 Palestinians. And once again, US and other international diplomats are pressuring officials on both sides of a tiny and parched strip of land to knock it the hell off.
A Saudi airstrike hit the wrong troops in Yemen. Instead of targeting the Houthi rebels, the Saudis hit their own allied Yemeni government troops, killing at least 20 of them and injuring 20 more. The Saudi intervention on behalf of its allies in Yemen's government has been nothing short of catastrophic - 1.4 Yemenis have been forced from their homes, and more than 2,000 civilians have died in the fighting.
New Delhi is aghast after two young girls, aged two an five years old, were raped in the Indian Capital. And it follows another sexual assault on a four-year old girl last week. New Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is putting at least part of the blame on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, because Delhi police are the responsibility of the national government: "Repeated rape of minors is shameful and worrying," Arjiwal tweeted, "Delhi police has completely failed to provide safety."
Both major opposition candidates are vowing to contest the results of Guinea's elections after President Alpha Conde won a second term without a runoff. The main opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo is calling for peaceful street protests. Vilence marked teh run-up to the election, which was only Guinea's second since gaining independence from France in 1958.
The US government kicked the issue of Arctic Oil Drilling down the road past the next presidential election. The Interior Department is basing its decision on Royal Dutch Shell's "disappointing" results from test drills. "In light of Shell's announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half," Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a statement. That's just past the inauguration ofUS President Barack Obama's successor. Still, advocates for Arctic wildlife are taking it as a win: It's "great for the Arctic and its polar bears," said Miyoko Sakashita of the Center for Biological Diversity. "We need to keep all the Arctic oil in the ground," she added.