Australia’s crackdown on bikies might enter a new punitive phase; A US Lawmaker is forced to apologize for an amazingly awful choice of words; Moscow issues a warning on the North Korean situation.

Police arrested a man in connection with what might be a one-man crime wave on the NSW Central Coast.  A 55 –year-old man and a 45-year-old woman were found dead in a home on Playford Road in Killarney Vale.  There are 9 other crime scenes involving carjackings, crashes and an assault.  The 25-year-old suspect is being questioned at Wyong Police Station.

South Australia Police are reportedly going to ask the Supreme Court to have the Finks bikie gang declared a criminal organization, followed by similar applications to cover the Hells Angels and Rebels.  SAPOL has been documenting numerous violent incidents to back-up the apps. 

A United States Congressman is apologizing for using a racial slur to describe Latino farm workers.  Republican Don Young used the term “wetback” when recalling his youth on his father’s farm.  That brought instant condemnation from practically everyone, and his own party’s leadership demanded an apology.  It comes as republicans are still wondering how to repair the damage from the last round of election losses, caused in part by the perception they’re a bunch of racist old white men.

South African President Jacob Zuma says nelson Mandela is making steady progress in hospital for a lung infection.  The 94-year old Mandela was South Africa’s first black president, elected after years as a political prisoner under the old apartheid system.

A Bosnian Court has sentenced a war criminal to 45 years in prison for dozens of murders, rapes, and other war crimes. Veselin Vlahovic killed 31 people and raped a number of Bosnian women while fighting for the Bosnian Serbs in the suburbs of Sarajevo during the war from 1992-1995.

Russia is warning the North Korean situation could quickly spin out of control.  Pyongyang is threatening to “settle accounts” with the United States, which had earlier flew its nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Bombers over the peninsula during joint military exercises with the South, which drew Russian criticism.  However, the majority of the world community has joined in economic sanctions against North Korea in response to its nuclear test last month.

A 12-story building under construction in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania collapsed, killing at least two construction workers.  17 people were pulled out of the debris with various injuries.  Building collapses are unfortunately becoming more frequent in East Africa as builders cut corners and local governments, for whatever reason, fail to enforce safety codes.