Court in Egypt Bans Muslim Brotherhood

An Egyptian court banned the Muslim Brotherhood from being involved in politics, on Monday.

It also ordered the seizure of any and all assets belonging to the group.

The court did not provide a reason as to why the decision had been made.

However, the Brotherhood has been accused of helping in terrorist activities against the state.

Many of the groups' leaders have already been arrested, over the past weeks.

Their remaining leadership decried the act as a "totalitarian decision".

Being banned is nothing new for the group.

Until former president Morsi made the group legal, they had been banned since being formed eighty-five years ago.

Funeral Bombing Kills 16 in Iraq

Sixteen people were killed when two bombs exploded at a funeral in Adhamiya, Iraq.

Another thirty people were injured by the blasts, on Monday.

Witnesses said that the second blast occurred as people rushed to the aid of victims of the first explosion.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

This was the third time in three days that bombings targeted funerals in the Baghdad area.

Usagi Kills 25 in China

Typhoon Usagi killed twenty-five people dead as it made it's way into China.

Ten of the deaths happened in Shanwei, with the rest spread around the rest of Guangdong province.

Nearly a quarter of a million people were evacuated and more than seven thousand homes destroyed by Usagi.

Rescue crews searched through rubble for survivors, in several parts of Guangdong.

The storm continues to make it's way further into China, slowly losing strength.

US Army: Specialist James T. Wickliff-Chacin

Specialist James T. Wickliff-Chacin, twenty-two of Edmond, Oklahoma, died on September 20 at Brooke Army Center in San Antonio, Texas.

He was wounded by an improvised explosive device, in Pul-E-Alam, Afghanistan, on August 12.

Wickliff-Chacin was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Stewart, Georgia.

Roads First Focus of Colorado Rebuilding

Colorado continues to clean up from the deadly floods, that struck a week and a half ago.

Many residential areas are still just working on finding out how bad the damage is.

Nearly two thousand homes and more than two hundred business were destroyed, while over sixteen thousand homes and almost eight hundred business were damaged.

All told damages in Colorado are estimated at more than two billion dollars.

For now, the government is focusing on repairing and rebuilding Colorado's mountain highways.

Hundreds of miles of roadway and some sixty bridges were damaged or destroyed, making
travel still very difficult.

Several towns remain cut off, with no road access anymore, while others only have access through mountain passes that will close in the winter.

Farmers further east are all facing transportation problems, as damaged or destroyed bridges were how they got their harvest off the farms.

Towards aiding both those issues state highway crews are already at work repairing and rebuilding roadways, as quickly as possible.

The Colorado National Guard has hundreds of troops helping the effort.

2 Colorado Firefighters Injured

Two firefighters from the Poudre Fire Authority were injured early Sunday morning.

Firefighters responded to a two alarm fire in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The injuries occurred when two firefighters fell through the loft area, of the building.

One of them was treated on the scene and released, while the other was taken to Medical Center of the Rockies with minor injuries.

Switzerland Votes to Keep Military Draft

Seventy-three percent of Swiss voters said no to removing the military draft, on Sunday.

All of the countries twenty-three canons voted to keep the draft.

Swiss law requires all men from eighteen to thirty-four to take part in the military.

After five months of basic training they are required to serve for nineteen days every year.

The draft keeps Switzerland's military at one hundred and fifty thousand strong.

Many Swiss believe that the draft is what holds their nation together, despite it's four official languages.

German Elections See Merkel and The CDU Victorious

Germans went to the polls on Sunday and mostly voted to keep the current leaders in control.

Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union came out very strong, taking forty-two percent of the votes, and giving Merkel her third term as Chancellor.

Expectations are that they will form a coalition with the Social Democrats, the next biggest pro Euro party, who took twenty-six perecent.

However the Alternative for Germany party, which has an anti Euro stance, also gained some ground.

They knocked Merkel's current allies, the Free Democratic Party, out of the Bundestag, but failed to gain a place in Parliament for themselves, with only four percent of the votes.

This marks the first time since the end of World War II that the FDP will not be present in the national government.

68 Dead in Westgate Mall Shooting in Nairobi

A hostage situation is still ongoing at the Westgate mall, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sixty-eight people have died as a result of the terrorist attack, carried out by Al Shabaab militants, on Saturday.

Kenyan military forces continued to converge on the mall, on Sunday.

They say they now have the remaining militants surrounded in a grocery store, and that they will be ending the situation as soon as possible.

It is unclear how many hostages they have, but officials say that they have been able to rescue most of them.

The attack has been felt internationally, as the dead come from many nations.

Citizens from Australia, Canada, China, France, Ghana, India, the Netherlands, and the UK are among the victims.

An American was among the wounded, but none were killed.

2 US Navy Members Missing After Helicopter Crashes in The Red Sea

A US Navy MH-60S Knighthawk crashed into the Red Sea, on Sunday.

Three of the five crew members were rescued from the sea and are in stable condition.

Neither of the other two have been found and are listed as missing.

Airplanes, helicopters, and six ships searched through the rest of Sunday and into Monday, looking for the missing two crew members.

The helicopter was part of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 6.