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Government wins landslide in Venezuela state elections

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — President Nicolas Maduro’s government won a landslide victory in closely watched regional elections in Venezuela on Sunday, according to official results that the opposition said were “suspicious.” Maduro’s socialist party won governorships of 17 of the 23 states with the opposition Democratic Union Roundtable (MUD) coalition taking only five, according to the results announced by the National Elections Council. The official turnout was 61.14 percent. Maduro said his government had scored an […]

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Hapilon, Omar Maute reported dead in latest clashes in Marawi

  (Eagle News) — Reports are coming in that Abu Sayyaf leader and reported Islamist State emir in Southeast Asia, Isnilon Hapilon, had been killed this morning, October 16, but the military said that it has yet to confirm these. CNN Philippines cited military sources to say that Hapilon is now dead, and even showed a supposed bloodied face of the dead Islamist militant leader. Eagle News also received a photo of the supposed dead […]

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Abe on course for landslide win in Japan vote: poll

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is on track for a landslide win in Japan’s upcoming election, the latest survey suggested Monday, as a new party founded by Tokyo’s popular governor loses momentum. Abe’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is projected to win as many as 303 of the 465 seats up for grabs in the October 22 election, according to a poll by the Mainichi Shimbun. Its junior coalition partner Komeito is […]

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NBA: Superteams rise to challenge Warriors for crown

by Jim Slater Agence Fracne Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Kevin Durant barely had a chance to grip his first NBA championship trophy in Golden State’s victory celebration last June before rival clubs were moving to challenge the Warriors “superteam” for supremacy. Now the NBA’s 72nd season opens Tuesday with a fistful of clubs having assembled three or more stars, uniting to stop Durant, 3-point sharpshooters Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson and forward Draymond […]

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Army says battle for Marawi to end soon; death toll now over 1,000, mostly IS militants

  MARAWI, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine troops Sunday bombed militants loyal to the Islamic State group who have held out for over four months in a southern city and the military said the conflict would be over “very soon”. The army previously set a target of Sunday to end the fighting in Marawi, which it said has killed more than 1,000 people. Troops have missed previous deadlines to flush out the militants whom authorities said […]

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Senior foreign officials of ASEAN meet in Manila to prepare for 31st ASEAN Summit in November

  (Eagle News) – Senior foreign affairs officials of the Philippines and of the other members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently gathered in Manila to discuss preparations for the 31st ASEAN Summit and Related Meetings set this November. Philippine Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Enrique Manalo chaired the meetings, which will also consider the logistic preparations for the Summit. The ASEAN senior foreign officials gathered at the Philippine International Convention Center from […]

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Two dead in Spain wildfires

MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Wildfires whipped by strong wind gusts spawned by Hurricane Ophelia burned across northwestern Spain on Sunday, leaving two people dead, officials said. Fifteen separate wildfires which posed a risk to built up areas were raging across the region of Galicia, the head of the regional government, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, said. The flames were being fanned by wind gusts of up to 90 kilometers (55 miles) per hour whipped as Hurricane Ophelia […]

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Rep. Barbers reminds drug war critics that only Duterte “had guts” to address country’s drug problem

(Eagle News) — Only President Rodrigo Duterte “had the guts” to address the drug problem. This was the message of Rep. Ace Barbers to people who continue to criticize the administration’s drug war without “giv(ing) the President the benefit of the doubt and looking at the whole picture objectively.” “In the first place, way before the President took office, the drug menace was already spiralling out of control. He alone had the guts to ‘grab […]

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Mogadishu reels as truck bomb toll hits 137

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) — The death toll from a massive weekend truck bomb in a busy shopping district of Mogadishu surged to at least 137, police said Sunday, warning it could rise further in the deadliest attack to hit war-torn Somalia. The figure was a huge jump from an initial police estimate of 20 dead in the hours after the deadly explosion ripped through the Somali capital on Saturday, causing scenes of carnage and widespread […]

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Oil producers may not need to extend cuts: Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Oil producers may not need to roll over a deal to cut production beyond March if all members fully comply with their pledges, the Kuwaiti oil minister said Sunday. “The current reduction deal is sufficient to achieve the desired purpose,” of rebalancing the oil market, Essam al-Marzouk told reporters after opening an oil conference. Although “the compliance level to the cuts has reached an unprecedented 116 percent”, this was mainly […]

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Ireland closes schools as rare hurricane approaches

DUBLIN, Ireland (AFP) — Ireland has ordered all schools to close Monday as the country braces for an “unprecedented storm” with the arrival of Ophelia, the largest hurricane ever recorded so far east in the Atlantic Ocean. “In response to the imminent Storm Ophelia, the Department of Education and Skills is now publicly informing all schools, colleges and other education institutions that they are to remain closed tomorrow, Monday 16 October,” the department said in […]

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Baghdad accuses Kurds of ‘declaration of war’

by Sarah Benhaida with Ahmad al-Rubaye in Taza Khurmatu Agence France Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Baghdad said Sunday that foreign Kurdish forces were present in the province of Kirkuk in what amounted to a “declaration of war”, dramatically raising the stakes in its dispute with Iraq’s Kurds. Kurdish officials denied Baghdad’s claim that forces from Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were among its peshmerga fighters in an armed standoff with Iraqi troops in […]

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