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The Mayor of the Colombian city of Cartagena has changed his mind about a memorial plaque just unveiled by Prince Charles during a visit last week, and is now seeking to have it removed. 

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New Zealand Police arrested and charged AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd with attempting to arrange the murders of two people.  Cops raided his home in Tauranga this morning, and took him into custody.  Rudd is free on bail until his next scheduled court appearance on 27 November.

Brazil’s environment minister says she will demand details from developed nations about what they’re doing to reduce carbon emissions.  Brazil plans to play a proactive role at the Lima Climate Change Conference set to take place in Peru next month.

At a United Nations of Egypt’s Human Rights record, the US and Europe urged Abel Fattah Al-Sisi to reverse tough measures enacted following last year’s overthrow of his Islamist predecessor; free political prisoners; and investigate alleged abuses by security forces.

Israeli police shot and killed a suspected Hamas activist after he plowed his minivan into a crowd in Jerusalem, killing one cop and injuring thirteen more people.  It was one of two such attacks on Israelis that followed clashes between police and Palestinians at the Al Aqsa Mosque.

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Federal authorities in Mexico say they’ve caught the fugitive mayor of Iguala and his wife, from the town where 43 students from a teachers college were last seen being forced into the backs of police vehicles in late September. 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has finally listened to reason on one subject.  Under much pressure - especially from the United States and UK - the Abbott government is expected to announce that it will assist Australian volunteers to go to fight the West African Ebola Epidemic, according to a report from Fairfax Media.

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Islamic State (IS) militants are on a killing spree in Iraq’s Anbar province, murdering another 36 members of a tribe of fellow Sunnis in a village overrun last week.  Hundreds more people were already summarily executed last week after being systematically hunted down by IS.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is back in hospital, the latest in a series of health issues she’s dealt with in the past year.  A government spokesman says CFK is in stable condition and is being treated for a bacterial infection of the colon.

The African Union (AU) has given the military of Burkina Faso two weeks to relinquish power to civilian rule, or face economic sanctions.  After a popular uprising forced the president from office, the AU says the Burkinian military illegally seized power.

People living with HIV are not only routinely denied treatment in government and private hospitals in Yemen’s healthcare system, but Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleges they are often are subjecting to humiliating treatment from doctors.

The Bolivian official in charge of defending the fundamental rights and civil liberties of the citizens is concerned over a rise in sexual assaults against girls and women.  He’s warning Bolivian society against “complacency” which leads to taking no preventative action.

Argentina has ordered the world's number one household products maker, US-based Procter and Gamble, to suspend is operations in the South American country because of an alleged scheme to defraud Buenos Aires out of corporate taxes owed.

Elections have been held in the rebel held areas of eastern Ukraine, and were declared by the European Union to be “illegal” and “a new obstacle on the road to peace”.  It happened against the background of ominous new military movements inside the rebellious areas.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is warning UK Prime Minister David Cameron that she will not compromise over the principle of free movement of workers, and London’s attempt to limit limiting immigration from other European Union nations would be a “point of no return”.

US crash investigators began combing through the debris sites from last week’s fatal failure of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo for what could be a year long probe.  But they’ll likely also look into questions about whether Virgin ignored warnings about the unconventional fuel propulsion system used to blast the craft up to space.

Burkina Faso’s military says it will install a transitional government in the West African nation.  But it comes as troops evicted thousands of pro-democracy protesters from the central Place de la Nation and placed barricades around government buildings in the capital city of Ouagadougou.