Pakistan decries the US drone attack that killed the Taliban chief – A member of Pussy Riot hasn’t been seen nor heard from for more than a week in Putin’s prisons – A landmark court ruling could change things for thousands of victims of fascism – And could a series of gigantic babies usher in the Reign of the Titans?

Pakistan’s interior minister says the US drone that killed the leader of the Taliban also destroyed the peace process with the Islamist terrorist group.  A government delegation was scheduled to fly from Islamabad to Waziristan to talk with Hakimullah Mehsud, but the drone got there first.  The government officials expressing outrage are framing this as a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, and that could be to satisfy an outraged public – The Pakistani government (or elements within) has cooperated with the US on drone strikes in the past.  The Taliban is vowing a series of revenge bombings.

At least 28 people have been trampled to death in a stampede at a church in central Nigeria.  Local media reports say the death toll will probably go higher.  The Holy Ghost Adoration Ground can handle 5,000 people, but it is reported that as many as 100,000 people were there for an all-nigh prayer vigil.

A member of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot has gone missing in Putin’s prison system.  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has not been heard from since 24 October when she was moved to a new prison; she was one of the group members jailed for the harmless guerilla performance in Moscow’s main cathedral.  Prior to last week, she managed to get a letter smuggled out in which she complained about prisoners being forced to work 16 hours days in a sewing sweat shop.

Los Angeles International Airport gunman Paul Anthony Ciancia is charged with murder and could face the death penalty.  That’s if he survives, prosecutors and federal officials say he’s unresponsive in hospital after cops stopped his shooting rampage by shooting him four times in the chest.  Ciancia killed an unarmed airport security screener identified as 39-year old Gerardo Hernandez and wounded several more people.  Authorities say Ciancia was in possession of anti-government literature.

Two French radio journalists were kidnapped and killed, allegedly shortly after interviewing a local ethnic Tuareg separatist leader in northern Mali.  The government of Mali calls the murders of Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont a “barbaric and cowardly act”, while French President Francois Hollande called the killings “despicable.”  It happened in the same area where French troops helped the government defeat the Tuareg separatists a few months ago.

A Chilean exile has won compensation for being tortured and exiled by the fascist regime of dictator General Augusto Pinochet.  80-year old Leopoldo Garcia Lucero was arrested for his Socialist beliefs in 1973 and sent out of his country in 1975.  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling could affect claims by hundreds of thousands of Chilean exiles who fled the barbarity of Pinochet and his cronies.

China is vowing to crush the voice of the Dalai Lama in his occupied homeland.  The government is planning to confiscate illegal satellite dishes and other gear Tibetans use to skirt prohibitions and access programming and information from the Dalai Lama and Tibet’s exiled government.  China invaded Tibet in 1950 and the Dalai Lama fled in 1959.

A Utah woman in the western US was shocked at the size of her newborn baby boy – Joel “J.J.” Brandon, Jr. weighed in at 14 pounds, and measures 22 inches long.  That’s four ounces more than gigantic little Addyson Gale Cessna of Pennsylvania, who weighed 13 pound 12 ounce earlier this year.  Two doctors were needed to help Sara Brandon deliver J.J. by C-section five months ago.  Now, this tiny titan is already wearing the same size diapers as his 2-year-old twin sisters.  J.J. could be the largest born in the US this year, but the biggest newborn in the world is likely George King from England, who was born in February weighing 15 pounds 7 ounces.