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Protesters burned Paraguay's congress, after the Senate went into a secret session and tried to overturn the law limiting presidents to single terms.  Many Latin American countries have such laws to prevent a return to the dictatorships of the 1960s-1980s.  At least one protester is dead, hundreds have been arrested, and the country is in a constitutional crisis thanks to the ambitions of conservative (naturally) President Horacio Cartes.  Police unexpectedly withdrew as protesters approach congress, allowing them to run wild inside.  After the fire broke out cops returned in force - but them stormed the opposition party headquarters under the guise of "pursuing" protesters.  Cops shot and killed a protester who turned out to be a regional opposition leader.

Venezuela's supreme court reversed its ruling nullifying the legislature, after President Nicolas Maduro asked for a review.  The court on Saturday released new rulings that appeared to reinstate congress’s authority.  Critics blasted the earlier ruling as an internal coup d'etat that would have given unchecked power to Mr. Maduro, and even the president's closest allies said it was a bad idea.

At least 150 people are dead in mudslides in Colombia.  More than five inches of rain fell in  the south-western border province of Putumayo, loosening the ground and sending torrents of mud and rock onto the provincial capital of Mocoa.  The mud didn't discriminate, police report removing the bodies of men, women, and children, young and old alike.  Mocoa's Mayor Jose Antonio Castro said, "Houses in 17 neighborhoods have basically been erased."  Another mudslide a world away in Eastern Java, Indonesia left at least a dozen people missing.

A South Korean ore carrying freighter is missing off the coast of Uruguay.  The Stellar Daisy is a Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) with a capacity of 260,000 tons.  The crew sent frantic messages to Polaris Shipping headquarters saying the massive ship was taking on water.  Uruguayan navy detected a strong odor of fuel in the Stellar Daisy's last known location.  At least 24 crew members were believed to be on board.

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenkois dead at age 84.  He's known for the epic "Babi Yar", which commemorates one of the worst Nazi atrocities of the Second World War, in which tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were killed in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Iraqi intelligence says a deputy to so-called Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an airstrike.  Ayad al-Jumaili was an intelligence operative for Saddam Hussein before 2003, and later led the terrorist group's security agency in Syria and Iraq. 

South Africa's new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba says the country has to "radically transform" its economy to lessen corporate and big business influence.  But Mr. Gigaba has a big wall to climb, as several members of the ruling African National Congress party objected to the sacking of his predecessor last week - former FM Pravin Gordhan was popular in international and local political circles for being a bulwark against government corruption which has flourished in other parts of President Jacob Zuma's government.

The French presidential campaign is tightening slightly with about three weeks left.  Centrist frontrunner Emmanuel Macron identified far-right extremist Marine Le Pen as his chief opponent; he rejected the National Front's xenophobic values before a crowd in Marseilles and said, "We are going to be ahead in the first round and we're going to beat them."  New polling says Macron leads with 25 percent, Le Pen follows with 24 percent, mainstream conservative Francois Fillon gained two points to 19 percent despite scandals over hiring family members to fake public jobs, and the far Left's Jean-Luc Melenchon climbed one point to 15 percent.  No one gives a crap about the Ruling Socialist party candidate Benoit Hamon, whose name sounds like a sandwich.