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| Turkey set to return to single-party rule in boost for Erdogan | |  By Ercan Gurses and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey looked set to return to single-party rule after the Islamist-rooted AK Party swept to victory in a general election on Sunday, a major boost for embattled President Tayyip Erdogan but an outcome likely to sharpen deep social divisions. Prime Minister and AKP leader Ahmet Davutoglu tweeted simply: "Elhamdulillah" (Thanks be to god) Security forces fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters in the mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir as results filtered in, with support for the pro-Kurdish opposition falling perilously near the 10 percent threshold to enter parliament. Erdogan had presented Sunday's polls as a chance to restore stability at a time of tension over Kurdish insurrection and after two bombings, attributed to Islamic State, while critics fear a drift to authoritarianism under the president.
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| Pakistani PM's party wins majority in local government polls | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's ruling party has won a majority of seats in local elections, according to unofficial results released on Sunday, dashing opposition hopes of making gains in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Punjab power base. Millions of Pakistanis voted on Saturday in local government polls seen as a referendum on Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) party midway through its term heading a national coalition government in Islamabad. The opposition, led by international cricket star turned politician Imran Khan, was hoping to build up nation-wide support to challenge Sharif at the next general election. |
| Turkey's AKP headed towards majority with two thirds of votes counted - TRT | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party looks on track to win back its parliamentary majority and form a government alone, according to partial results from Sunday's election broadcast by state-run TRT television. With almost two thirds of the votes counted, the AKP had taken 51.9 percent of the vote, TRT said. The main opposition CHP was on 22.5 percent, while the nationalist MHP was on 11.4 and pro-Kurdish HDP on 10.5 percent, just above the 10 percent threshold needed to enter parliament, TRT said. ...
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| Trial of Gaddafi son adjourned to December | | | The son of deposed Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi appeared in a Tripoli court on Sunday to face charges of murdering a football player and other crimes before the 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule. The judge adjoined proceedings against Saadi Gaddafi, who was extradited from Niger last year, until Dec. 6 after his attorney asked for more time to examine the case against him and to have access to military prosecutor documents. In July a Tripoli court sentenced another of Gaddafi's sons Saif al-Islam and eight other former officials to death for crimes committed during the 2011 uprising against his father, who was later killed by rebels. |
| Thousands of Myanmar's Suu Kyi supporters stage huge pre-election rally | |  By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of red-clad supporters gave Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a rock-star reception, cheering and dancing as she addressed crowds in the country's largest city before an historic election next Sunday. Buses, taxis and trucks decked with flags and banners of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party lined the streets leading to a stadium where the charismatic politician rounded off her energetic campaign that lasted nearly two months. "People who say the change has already happened and it's not necessary to change more, say that because they don't really want to change," said Suu Kyi.
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| Romanian club fire death toll rises to 29, thousands march | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two young Romanian women died of severe burns in hospital on Sunday after having been rescued from the fire at a Bucharest nightclub on Friday, doctors said, raising the death toll to 29. Thousands of people marched silently with flowers through Bucharest on Sunday to commemorate the victims and U.S. ambassador Hans Klemm visited the Colectiv nightclub site, meeting people who had lit candles to express solidarity with the grieving families. The state of those hospitalised and labelled critical remains critical," deputy Interior Minister Raed Arafat said.
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| Two soldiers, 11 suspected Boko Haram fighters killed in Chad attacks | | | N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - At least two soldiers and 11 militants were killed on Sunday in suspected Boko Haram attacks on two remote military posts in the Lake Chad area, Chad's government and military sources said. Chad is at the forefront of a regional effort to counter the Islamist militant group which controls small enclaves in remote parts of neighbouring Nigeria's northeast from where it launches cross-border raids. "Two communities were attacked at dawn," said a government statement sent to journalists, referring to isolated villages near the lake where Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon meet. |
| Egypt bars scores of Egyptians from traveling - Human Rights Watch | |  Egypt has increasingly used unlawful means to prevent citizens from traveling outside the country over the past year, a report from Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, another sign of the government's tightening grip on political opposition. Members of political parties, youth activists, and people associated with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and former President Mohamed Mursi are among those who have been turned back at the airport, their passports often confiscated and not returned, the report said. "The Egyptian authorities have jailed thousands of dissidents in the past two years and are now turning the country's own borders into de facto prison walls," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
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| Islamist al Shabaab attacks Somali hotel, kill at least 13 | | | By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Security forces in the Somali capital fought for several hours on Sunday before clearing a hotel of Islamist al Shabaab gunmen who had stormed the building after two bombs ripped into it, police and witnesses said. Al Shabaab, which has frequently launched attacks in Mogadishu in its bid to topple the Western-backed government, said it was behind the assault on the Sahafi hotel, where government officials and lawmakers stay. "Mujahideen (fighters) entered and took over Sahafi hotel where enemies lived," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operations spokesman, told Reuters. |
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