Israel’s PM fears his internal problem takes the focus off his foreign policy goals with Iran – Moscow demands restitution after Polish nationalists attack the Russian embassy – We finally know what happened to the leader of Pussy Riot after she disappeared in Putin’s prisons – Tens of thousands of kids are at risk of Polio because of an African rebellion.

Israel’s Prime Minister abruptly halted a plan to explore the potential construction of thousands of new homes in West Bank settlements in Palestinian territories.  Benjamin Netanyahu says the plans have created an “unnecessary confrontation” with the international community that is threatening his campaign against Iran's suspect nuclear program.  Netanyahu also says the coalition partner party that drew up the settlement plan did so without approval.

A court is ordering Egypt to end its state of emergency two days early.  It had been set to expire, along with the nationwide curfew, on Thursday.  The state of the emergency allowed the authorities to make arrests without warrants and gave security officials the right to search people's homes.

Moscow is demanding an apology from Warsaw after right-wing nationalists rioted on Poland’s Independence Day in Warsaw, attacking the Russian Embassy.  Russian media said that in addition to firecrackers, rioters threw bottles, stones and trash at the embassy and set fire to a police booth nearby, and Moscow wants Poland to pay for the repairs to the building.

The leader of the Russian Punk Rock band Pussy Riot has apparently been transferred to a prison in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova disappeared in Putin’s prisons after charging human rights violations at the prison colony where she was held in Mordovia, a region in central Russia – Now, she is thousands of kilometers even further away from her husband and family in Moscow.  Her crime:  Doing a naughty song and dance in a church.

The British Home Office is trying to explain why it threatened to deport a 7-year old boy because he was born in Canada, even though his mum has dual Canadian – British nationality.  Liberal Democrat John Pugh says that asking 7-year old Jamie Leung to leave his family shows a “lack of humanity and common sense.”  The Home Office claims it did not receive the right evidence to support his application to stay.

Colombia is tightening security after learning of an alleged plot to by Marxist FARC rebels to kill ex-president Alvaro Uribe, who presided over a fierce period of the nation’s Civil War in which the FARC was reduced to half its size.  He was also a critic of peace talks, which are close to ending the 50-year-old conflict.  Uribe is expected to run for President again next year.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is now expected to resume her duties on 18 November.  Doctors gave her the all-clear after brain surgery on 8 October to relieve a subdural hematoma, the result of a knock on her head two months earlier – A matter of some speculation, because Argentina never fully explained what happened.  She’s still going to have to avoid airplanes for another 30 days, and will be carefully monitored by her doctors.

The Prime Minister of the island nation of Mauritius is now the third leader to say he will not go to this week's Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka because of the host's dismal human rights record of murder and abuse of the Tamil minority.  Prime Minister Navin Chandra Ramgoolam joins the leaders of India and Canada in the boycott.  Tony?  Tony?

The United Nations would love to vaccinate 165,000 kids in Sudan against Polio.  But the government and rebels are ignoring a Security Council resolution to give health workers access to South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.  Health officials say the conflict in the two states could lead to a polio outbreak.

Kidnappers have released two US Sailors abducted off the coast of Nigeria last month.  The men were the captain and chief engineer of an oil tanker that was stormed by gunmen near Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state.  No group took responsibility and there’s no word of how much, if any, ransom was paid.

South Africa is facing its horrible road safety record after 29 people were killed when a bus and a truck collided near the town of Kwaggafontein, which is 60 miles from Pretoria.  “This carnage must stop.  It is completely unacceptable,” said South African president Jacob Zuma.  Just two months ago, 24 people died when a truck crashed into a line of minibuses in eastern Pinetown.  The video of that disaster went viral.