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While nations are fretting about what to do about the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and how to deal with citizens who went to the Middle East to join, one mother has enacted her own solution.  She went to Syria and got her daughter back from the terrorist louse the girl had married.

On the day she was to travel to London to prepare for the Miss World Pageant, police announced they had recovered the bodies of Miss Honduras and her sister from a shallow grave on a riverbank.  Investigators had already arrested the sister’s boyfriend who led them to the graves.

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have broken into the territory’s Legislative Council building in the Admiralty District, setting off a confrontation with police who responded with batons and pepper spray.  Four people have been arrested.  The aggressive turn was not welcomed by all who have supported the demonstrations thus far.

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Every year, the town of Wunsiedel in the southern German state of Bavaria has to put up with a gathering of neo-nazi scum who march to their town to commemorate Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler’s top deputies.  This year, townspeople came up with a plan to make the nazis pay for their own opposition.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sure picked his moment well as he called for a snap election to be held in mod-December, two years ahead of schedule.  His popularity is waning and his “Abe-nomics” economic reform package doesn’t seem to be working, as the world’s third-largest economy has fallen into recession.  But politically, it‘s actually a good idea.

Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels on Tuesday morning confirmed the group is holding army General Ruben Dario Alzate and two others.  The abductions led President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend peace talks in Havana aimed at ending the costly five-decade insurgency.

The head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service says Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is not stoking the fires of terrorism, contradicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  And Yoram Cohen is warns that changing the status quo at the Temple Mount, which is considered holy by both Jews and Muslims, could deepen a religious war.

Two men armed with at least one gun, plus axes and knives attacked and murdered four Israelis in a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood.  At least 13 more people were injured before Israeli police say they shot and killed the two suspects inside the building.

Hong Kong authorities are clearing barricades from roads around part of the main pro-democracy protest site around the government center in the Admiralty District.  This, after the owners of the Citic Tower secured a court order to free up the entrance to the building, which is adjacent to the protest camp.

A funny thing happened in Europe, people in several countries felt the need to express their frustrations with the way governments are running things, some would say “into the ground”.  Demonstrations large and small, peaceful and not so peaceful went down in Greece, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Ireland.

Europe has a problem with Russia – diplomats recognize that Moscow is the problem in Ukraine, but can’t get away from the fact that Moscow is also more than likely part of the solution.  So, European Union (EU) foreign ministers agreed to crank up economic sanctions on the Moscow-backed rebels in Ukraine, but not to increase sanctions on Moscow itself.

Ugandan police are questioning several government officials about the disappearance of elephant ivory from a government vault.  State-run media reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had ordered an anti-corruption watchdog to start a formal investigation.

A surgeon who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to America for treatment has died in the biocontainment unit of a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.  The death of Doctor Martin Salia points to the importance of identifying and treating Ebola symptoms as early as possible.

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Australia’s Dairy and Beef producers are likely to be big winners in the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) reached with China.  And it turns out that Australia’s mining tycoons stand to make out quite well, as they just recently boosted their investments in the agricultural sector.

The world’s third largest economy is shrinking, marking a technical recession for Japan.  The Gross Domestic Product shrank 1.6 percent in the three month period ending with September, the second consecutive drop – and coming as a surprise to economists.

The European Commission will hold an emergency meeting on Monday after the detection of a highly contagious strain of Bird Flu on a poultry farm in the Netherlands.  It’s the first time the H5N8 strain has been detected in Europe, and authorities are already in the process of destroying 150,000 hens at the infected farm.

While workers collected more debris and scraps from the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, a new video has surfaced showing the immediate aftermath of the crowded passenger’s impact with the ground.

Hours after UK authorities confirmed they were looking into reports that the Islamic State (IS) terrorist known as “Jihadi John” might have been injured in an air strike, a new IS video shows a masked man with the severed head of an American hostage and apparently directing the executions of captured Syrian troops.