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| Bomb explodes at hotel in Somali capital, two dead - police | | | A suspected car bomb exploded at the entrance to a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital early on Sunday morning, damaging parts of the hotel and killing at least two people, a police officer and a witness said. The Islamist militant group al Shabaab has frequently launched attacks in Mogadishu, often detonating a bomb to break through security and then sending fighters into buildings. The hotel, which lies in a place in the capital known as K-4, is often used by lawmakers and government officials. |
| President Aliyev's party seen easily winning election in Azerbaijan | |  By Nailia Bagirova BAKU (Reuters) - President Ilham Aliyev's ruling party is poised to sweep the board in a parliamentary election in Azerbaijan on Sunday, a vote the mainstream opposition and international monitors are shunning. Aliyev has consolidated his power since succeeding his father and long-serving leader Heydar in 2003, presiding over a period when officials say revenues from rising oil and gas exports have delivered better living standards. The government denies wrongdoing, and Western governments, who are courting Azerbaijan as an alternative source of oil and gas to Russia, balance their criticism over human rights with strategic considerations.
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| Seven arrested after Maldives boat blast probe leads to weapons find | |  By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested seven people after an investigation into a boat explosion that targeted President Abdulla Yameen led to the discovery of weapons hidden on the sea bed, officials said on Saturday. Ali Ihusaan, a Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) official said the investigation into the Sept. 28 boat blast had led to the discovery of the weapons, some of which could be used to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs). A police official said seven suspects were arrested after the find, which came a day after Malaysia deported a man to the Maldives who was suspected of involvement in the attempted assassination of Yameen last month.
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| Guinea's constitutional court validates Conde's re-election | |  Guinea's constitutional court on Saturday validated President Alpha Conde's victory in an Oct. 11 election that handed him a second five-year term with a clear majority. The election's results were announced on Oct. 17, but the nine-member court had to weigh complaints from opposition candidates before certifying them. "The Constitutional Court declares Mr Alpha Conde ... with 57.84 percent, elected President of the Republic," the body's president Kelefa Sall said.
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| Shooter kills three in Colorado Springs, dies in confrontation with police | | | (Reuters) - A suspect killed three people in a series of shootings in downtown Colorado Springs on Saturday before dying in an exchange of gunfire with police, authorities said. Colorado Springs police responding to an emergency call tracked down the suspect and returned fire after being shot at, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. "It's going to take quite a few hours for us to work that," said Colorado Springs police spokeswoman Lt. Catherine Buckley. |
| Insight: Myanmar's radical monks shaping historic election | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - A powerful Buddhist ultranationalist group is helping Myanmar's ruling party win votes in next Sunday's election after the government pushed through laws seen as anti-Muslim, the co-founder of the group told Reuters. Known by its Burmese initials Ma Ba Tha, the Buddhist nationalist group is not running a single candidate in the Nov. 8 election - monks are barred by law from running for office. For the first time, a Ma Ba Tha co-founder, a monk named Parmaukkha, disclosed some of the details about closed-door discussions between the group and the government on securing the passage of the bills.
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| Divided Turkey holds snap election as security, economic fears weigh | |  By Jonny Hogg ANKARA (Reuters) - Turks go to the polls on Sunday amid worsening security and economic worries, in a snap parliamentary election that could profoundly impact the divided country's trajectory and that of President Tayyip Erdogan. This is the second parliamentary poll in five months, after the ruling AK Party founded by Erdogan failed to retain its single-party majority in June. Since then, a ceasefire with Kurdish militants has collapsed into bloodshed, the Syria crisis has worsened, and NATO-member Turkey has been hit by two Islamic State-linked suicide bomb attacks, killing more than 130.
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| A lone Muslim campaigns in Myanmar's stronghold of radical Buddhism | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Andrew R.C. Marshall MANDALAY, Myanmar (Reuters) - The city of Mandalay in northern Myanmar is a Buddhist religious centre so crowded with temples, monasteries and monks that they can sometimes seem innumerable. Much easier to count is the number of Mandalay Muslims standing in Myanmar's historic general election on Nov. 8. Khin Maung Thein hails from an obscure little party and runs his campaign from a cluttered, two-story home that doubles as the family printing business.
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