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The Royal Australasian College of Physicians is calling on the government to immediately fly a pregnant woman from the Nauru detention facility to Australia so she can give birth.  The woman is a 34-year-old Kurdish-Iraqi asylum seeker; she suffers from diabetes and is in severe discomfort in her 40th week of pregnancy.  Nauru medical authorities have actually gone to the business networking site LinkedIn to find a doctor to fly there and perform an emergency Cesarean, but at least one Aussie doctor has refused because Nauru lacks the proper facilities.

UN officials are for the first time confirming that Mustard Gas has been used in the Syrian Civil War.  This happened during a clash between Islamic State and one of the moderate Syrian Rebel groups in town of Marea in the northern province of Aleppo on August 21.  A source from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said, "We have determined the facts, but we have not determined who was responsible."  The information has been sent in a report to all 196 member states, which includes Australia.

A mine dam co-owned by Australia's BHP Billiton burst near the Brazilian town of Mariana in Minas Gerais state, burying the small town of Bento Rodrigues in thick red clay mud.  Local officials believe at least 17 people were killed in the disaster.  Dozens of people are missing, and rescue efforts continued well past sunset.

Chile's government is reopening the death of poet Pablo Neruda, acknowledging for the first time that he might have been murdered by the fascist regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet.  An Interior Ministry document says that "it's clearly possible and highly probable that a third party" was responsible for the poet and Left-Wing politician's death.  An exhumation in 2013 did not find evidence of poison in Neruda's remains, but the family has never accepted that conclusion.  Neruda was 69-years old and suffering prostate cancer in 1973 when Pinochet seized power in a coup that saw the murders of thousands of political opponents.  Neruda was planning to flee the country, but was rushed to hospital, where officials said he died of "natural causes" a few days later. 

 

There's something quite terrible happening in American youth sports:  Eleven boys have died playing or practicing with their High School football teams since July - the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research says seven of them were directly related to football trauma.  The latest is 17-year old Luke Schemm of Kansas, who had just scored a touchdown when he collapsed on the sidelines.  He was taken to hospital in Denver, Colorado, where he was taken off life-support on Wednesday of this week.