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Police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have arrested a local woman for the gruesome stabbing murder of an American teacher in a shopping mall restroom in Abu Dhabi.  Westerners working in the city are on guard against potential copycat attacks.

A massive super typhoon is headed for the Philippines, on course for landfall in the areas that were ravaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan last year.  Forecasters say the new storm – Super Typhoon Hagupit, called Rosa in the Philippine naming system – will hit the island of Samar on Sunday.

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Ukrainian officials say an accident at a nuclear power plant in the southeast poses no danger to public health or the environment.  The words “Ukraine”, Nuclear”, and “Accident” appearing in the same sentence instantly dredges up memories of the massive release of radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear plan three decades ago.

You know how you go to Macca’s or Hungry Jack’s and get an order of Fries with a burger?  If you were to do that in America, you’d ask for “French Fries”.  And that has really, really ticked off the Belgians, who believe greasy potato sticks to be their national dish.

Mediators say Colombia and the Marxist FARC rebels have agreed to will resume peace talks, which were put on hold last month over the abduction of an army general, who has since been released and has resigned.  But a funny thing happened on the way back to the peace table.

America’s top law enforcement officer Attorney General Eric Holder says “the Justice Department will proceed with a federal civil rights investigation” into the death of Eric Garner, after a grand jury failed to return an indictment against the white cop who killed him.  Holder promised an “independent, thorough, fair and expeditious investigation.”

Exactly what does a cop have to do to get indicted in the United States?  A grand jury in Staten Island, New York declined to indict a white police officer for causing the death of a black suspect via an unauthorized choke hold while the dying man repeatedly pleaded, “I can’t breath.”  And it’s not like any facts were in question – the whole, revolting killing was caught clearly on video.

The founders of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement are turning themselves in to police over their role in pro-democracy demonstrations.  And they are urging the few hundred remaining student demonstrators to withdraw from the streets, after clashes with police on Sunday and Monday.

Iranian warplanes have conducted airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq during recent days.  The Pentagon says these attacks were not coordinated with the US military, which is leading the international effort to “degrade and destroy” IS through air attacks.

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Security forces in Lebanon are confirming that a woman and child detained ten days ago are a wife and son of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist group Islamic State.  It could provide information about the reclusive terrorist, about which little is known.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed two moderate members of his government, saying he planned to dissolve parliament and force early elections, two years ahead of schedule.  Conflict had been brewing, but Netanyahu unleashed the chaos in his own government with the introduction of a nationality bill that would declare Israel the homeland of Jews.

Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta replaced his security chiefs after a massacre committed by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.  Gunmen singled out and murdered non-Muslims at a mining camp in the northeastern Mandera region near the Somali border.

One of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy student leaders is urging protesters to regroup as he commences a hunger strike.  This comes after Hong Kong’s chief executive C.Y. Leung warned protesters not to return to the streets after this week’s clashes with police outside government headquarters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given up on his dream of a southern gas pipeline that bypassed Ukraine and pumped Russian natural gas into southern Europe.  Putin is citing European Union and US economic pressure as the main reason for scrapping it.

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Police in India arrested three men caught on video harassing two women on a bus – a video that’s gone viral because the two women fight back, repeatedly smacking the men with their fists and belts.  It’s another episode highlighting India’s problem with rampant sexual abuse and violence.

One of the world’s most-sought-after nazi war criminals from World War II is more than likely dead.  Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem says he is “99 percent sure” that Alois Brunner died at least four years ago in Syria.

Suspected Boko Haram militants carried out bloody attacks in two state capitals in the northeast, with a deadly double bombing at a crowded market and an attack on a police base.  It’s the part of Nigeria where the terrorists have been trying to carve out their own state.