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Brazil's president-elect vows a fundamental change

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 29 (AFP): Brazil entered a new era on Monday after electing its next president, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman who vowed a fundamental change in direction for the giant Latin American country.Bolsonaro, who openly admires Brazil's former military dictatorship and shocked many with his derogatory remarks...

Uganda shelters 400,000 refugees

KAMPALA, Oct 29: President Donald Trump is vowing to send the military to stop migrants trudging from Central America. Europe's leaders are paying African nations to block migrants from crossing the Mediterranean - and detaining the ones who make it in filthy, overcrowded camps.But Solomon Osakan has a very different...

Turkey for completing Khashoggi probe as 'soon as possible'

Mevlut Cavusoglu ISTANBUL, Oct 29 (Agencies): Turkey called on Monday for the investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi be completed "as soon as possible", after Saudi Arabia's chief prosecutor met with the head of the Turkish probe, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that...

Duterte puts customs under military control

MANILA, Oct 29 (AP): The Philippine president put the Bureau of Customs temporarily under military control amid a scandal after two huge shipments of illegal drugs slipped past the agency through the port of Manila.President Rodrigo Duterte made the announcement late on Sunday in an expletives-laden speech in southern Davao...

Protests greet world's biggest statue in India

SARDAR SAROVAR DAM, Oct 29 (AFP): Angry local communities have warned India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stay away from the inauguration on Wednesday of the world's biggest statue, a 182 metre (600 feet) high tribute to an independence hero.The Statue of Unity, which is twice the size of the...

Merkel 'to leave key party role'

BERLIN, Oct 29 (BBC): German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told her CDU party that she will not run for re-election as its chairwoman in December, sources say.Her decision comes after her party suffered heavy losses in regional elections that threatened the stability of the governing coalition.Mrs Merkel has been chair...

Libya strongman in Rome ahead of crisis talks

ROME, Oct 29 (AFP): Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, whose self-styled Libyan National Army dominates the country's east, was in Rome on Monday for talks ahead of next month's Sicily conference on the conflict-hit North African nation.Italy is trying to convince Haftar to support a crisis resolution plan drawn up by...

News in Brief- (30-10-2018)

Princess gives up royal status to marry commonerTOKYO, Oct 29: Princess Ayako married commoner Kei Moriya on Monday at a traditional ceremony at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, to become the latest female royal to leave Japan's imperial family. The 28-year-old princess, the third daughter of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado,...