A judge wants evidence reexamined in a notorious murder case – Anti-immigration extremists are allowed into Norway’s coalition government (that didn’t work out too well in Greece, BTW) – Tens of thousands of people become stateless non-citizens as a judge redoes one country’s laws going back to 1929.

In Italy, a judge has ordered a new DNA test on the knife that alleged killed British student Meredith Kercher back in 2007.  It comes in the retrial of American Amanda Knox and and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the crime.  The two suspects spent four years in jail for the murder, but their convictions were overturned on appeal and new trials were ordered.  Knox went back to America and is not attending this trial.

Four fascist Golden Dawn MPs will appear in court in Greece on Tuesday to answer formal charges of murder, assault, money-laundering, and belonging to a criminal group.  22 people have been held in the murder of anti-racist musician Pavlos Fyssas.  A Golden Dawn enforcer has admitted to leading a mob of 15 armed neo-nazis to kill Fyssas.  Greece's prime minister said Monday his government will do “whatever it takes” to completely eradicate the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, which has been connected to attacks on immigrants, Leftists, and LGBT people.

Norway's Conservative leader Erna Solberg said she would form a minority cabinet with the right-wing, anti-immigration (and ironically named) Progress Party.  It’s the first time the party, ordinarily considered too extreme, has been a part of government.  Solberg will adopt anti-immigration policies to please her new coalition partners.  Cowardly mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed dozens of children at a Labor Party youth camp, was a member of the Progress Party.

Pakistan is condemning the latest US drone strike in the lawless northern Waziristan region, home to Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists.  Various sources put the death toll at three to six people killed.  Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said “these unilateral strikes are a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and integral territory,” and called them “counterproductive”.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is expelling the top American diplomat Kelly Keiderling and two other US staffers.  He’s accusing them of meeting with right-wing opposition leaders and encouraging “acts of sabotage” against his country’s economy and electrical grid.  As usual in these cases, Maduro didn’t offer any evidence other than waving a piece of paper at a crowd.  The US isn’t commenting.

The Dominican Republic's top Constitutional Court is stripping citizenship from anyone born to migrants who came to the Dominican Republic illegally.  The ruling overwhelmingly affects Haitians from the west side of the Caribbean island Hispaniola.  The ruling is back-dated to anyone born after 1929, leaving tens of thousands of people stateless and subject to deportation to impoverished Haiti, where they have no ties or citizenship.

An armed gang stormed Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos Airport and made off with more than A$850,000 worth of Tablets and Notebook Computers.  It took ten armed men about 30 minutes to take over the airport’s main cargo terminal and get out with the goods.  Security is a major concern for next year’s world cup, and this illustrates why.

Shares in Chinese solar companies are up after Beijing announced tax breaks to prop up the struggling sector. Manufacturers will be refunded 50 percent of the value added tax from 1 October 2013 to 31 December 2015.  The market for solar cells had gone soft, in part because China allegedly “dumped” units onto markets at artificially low prices, undercutting their own business.

Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared Roman Catholic Saints next April.  Both were hugely transformative leaders; Known as “The Good Pope”, John XXIII was pontiff from 1958-1963, calling the Second Vatican Council, which after his death brought in much-needed Liberal reforms and inclusiveness.  Polish-born John Paul II was a staunch anti-Communist and widely admired by the church’s conservative wing.  Both made major reforms to end what many considered to be Catholicism’s official anti-Semitism.