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| Polls close in divided Turkey's parliamentary election | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan's longtime grip on power was put to a critical test on Sunday in elections likely to determine the trajectory of a polarised country hit by mounting internal bloodshed and economic worries. The poll the second in five months, after the AK Party founded by Erdogan lost in June the single-party governing majority it had enjoyed since first taking power in 2002. Since June, a ceasefire with Kurdish militants has collapsed, the war in neighbouring Syria has worsened and Turkey - a NATO member state - has been buffeted by two Islamic State-linked suicide bomb attacks that killed more than 130 people.
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| 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. |
| Britain to present new watered down surveillance bill | |  Britain's government will present a new bill to give security agencies the powers to track online communications, but in a bid to win over critics interior minister Theresa May said they would not get automatic access to people's browsing history. May told the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday that the new bill, to be presented in parliament on Wednesday, was "quite different" from earlier plans to give police greater powers to monitor communications and web activities that opponents dubbed a "snoopers' charter".
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| Black boxes from crashed Russian plane will be examined within hours | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian and Russian investigators will begin examining within hours the contents of the two black boxes recovered from the Russian airliner that crashed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, judicial and ministerial sources said. The sources said the examination would take place at the civil aviation ministry in Cairo. (Reporting by Lin Noueihed; editing by John Stonestreet) |
| FBI says no 'conclusive evidence' Maldives boat blast caused by bomb | |  (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it has found no conclusive evidence that an explosion on a boat transporting Maldives President Abdulla Yameen was caused by a bomb. The Maldives government, however, said the FBI statement was contrary to the outcome of other investigators.
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