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At least two people are dead and 13 are in hospital because of a terrible bushfire in South Australia's Mid North near Mallala.  Five of those folks are in a critical condition.  There's also a lot of property damage, and there are reports livestock didn't fare too well. 

The surviving pilot of the downed Russian Sukhoi Su-24 is denying Turkey's claims that it gave ten warnings before shooting the fighter jet out of the sky for allegedly violating its airspace.  Captain Konstantin Murakhtin told Russian television there was "no way" the jet could have violated Turkish airspace.  Turkey released audio of what it said was warnings to the Russian plane.  US officials said the incursion lasted only a few seconds.  It's not clear what happened to the body of Murakhtin's copilot, who was shot to death by Syrian rebels - but the so-called "moderate" rebels released video in which they did not appear to be treating it with respect.  

Russia now says it is deploying surface-to-air missiles to Syria after the downing of its Su-24.  A US Air Force general acknowledges that the move "it does complicate things a little bit" for the coalition's operations against Islamic State.  Russian S-400 batteries will be installed at Syria's Khmeimim airbase in Latakia, which accommodates a variety of Russian fighter jets that attacks Islamic State - and Western-backed rebel groups in support of its allies in the Syrian regime.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country will do more in the fight against Islamic State, adding that the terrorist group "can't be convinced with words, it must be fought with military means".  This is in reaction to France, which invoked a common protection clause of the European Union charter after the 13 November terrorist attacks in Paris which killed 130 people.  France says all EU nations have promised direct or indirect support of its operations against IS in Syria.

France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls says Europe can no longer accept so many refugees.  This is after the 13 November terrorist attacks in Paris - evidence shows that two of the attackers might have entered Europe, hiding in the hoards of migrants and refugees fleeing the war in Syria and other trouble elsewhere.  Mr. Valls said, "It was not France that said 'Come!' " - insinuating that Germany's generous policy towards accepting Syrian refugees was the star that brought the multitudes. 

Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister shed tears as the country announced it is drastically scaling back its generous policy towards asylum seekers to match the European Union minimums. "We are adapting Swedish legislation temporarily so that more people choose to seek asylum in other countries," said Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who blamed his EU neighbors for failing to spread the huge number of asylum seekers more evenly around member nations.  "It pains me that Sweden is no longer capable of receiving asylum seekers at the high level we do today.  We simply cannot do any more."  Asylum seekers will get only temporary residency permits, and ID checks will be instituted on all modes of transportation.  These things might have been unthinkable in Sweden a year ago, but things changed when refugees started arriving in the country at a clip of 10,000 or more per week.

French "comic" Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala has been sentenced by a Belgian court to two months in jail for anti-Semitic hate speech from a performance in 2012.  Earlier this month, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Dieudonne  in a 2009 case.  In March, a French court found him guilty of promoting terrorism for his post on social media, "Je Suis Charlie Coulibay", which combined the "Je Suis Charlie" hashtag that arose after the January terrorist attacks in Paris with the name of the cowardly scumbag who who killed four civilians at a Kosher supermarket during the January bloodshed.

Bollywood star Aamir Khan says he standsby his remarks about his "concern" about growing "intolerance" in India.  But he's denying reports that his family is leaving the country, although they did discuss it in the abstract.  "India is my country, I love it, I feel fortunate for being born here, and this is where I am staying," the actor wrote on his Facebook page.  Khan had earlier told an audience on Monday that a sense of "insecurity" and "fear" had been growing in India.

Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has banned the despicable procedure of female genital mutilation (FGM), saying it is not required in Islam.  As many as 75 percent of women in the predominantly Muslim West African country have been subjected to FGM, which is often wrongly attributed to Islam.

South Korea's hard-hitting new anti-smoking campaign is riling a smoker's group.  In the new ad, a customer is shown approaching a cigarette kiosk with the request, "Give me lung cancer."  An online group called "I Love Smoking" is demanding the campaign be pulled, probably while coughing up green phelgm and being unable to walk up two flights of stairs.  Earlier this year, South Korea doubled the price of a pack of ciggies to combat the high rate of smoking - 44 percent of males - which drive up the nation's health care costs.

Hundreds of Rugby fans are flocking to see a Buddhist statue in a temple in the country's midsection, but not necessarily because of the need for inner peace.  The 500-year old statue of Dainichi Nyorai - the central figure in two sects of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism - apparently strongly resembles scrum star Ayumu Goromaru, who is on his way to Queensland to play for the Reds.  Even though he holds his hands in a similar position to the statue in the Seki-Zenko-Ji Temple in Gifu prefecture, Ayumu says he draws his inspiration not from Buddhism but from UK's Jonny Wilkinson.