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November 2, 2014
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2014-11-02
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
:
Over 300 members of the
Sunni
Albu Nimr
tribe are executed by
ISIS
militants in
Anbar Province
, western
Iraq
.
(Reuters via Al Arabiya)
Libyan Civil War
:
The death toll surpasses 200 from fighting between loyalist troops and
Islamist
militias in
Benghazi
since an offensive launched by
Khalifa Hifter
began two weeks ago.
(AP via ABC News)
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At least 60 people were killed and 110 injured by
a suicide bombing
in the
Pakistani
city of
Lahore
.
(CNN)
Abu Sayyaf
guerillas
kill six
Philippine Army
soldiers outside the town of
Basilan
.
(AP via
Washington Post
)
An assault on a
police barracks
by suspected members of the
Mombasa Republican Council
separatist group leaves one officer and six attackers dead in
Mombasa
,
Kenya
.
(Reuters)
Gaza-Israel conflict
:
Hamas
arrested five people on Sunday suspected of firing a rocket into
Israel
in violation of the truce.
(Times of Israel)
Law and crime
Multiple people are arrested for their alleged involvement with a
hit-and-run
that killed three 13-year-old
trick-or-treaters
in
Santa Ana
,
California
, U.S.
(Yahoo News)
Politics and elections
Romanian presidential election, 2014
:
More than 18 million Romanians are expected to go to the polls to choose their
president
in one of the most important
elections
since the
1989 revolution
.
(HotNews.ro)
(EurActiv)
Romanian
Prime Minister
Victor Ponta
, from the ruling
PSD
, and the ethnic German mayor of
Sibiu
Klaus Iohannis
, from the opposition
ACL
electoral alliance, will face a November 16
runoff
, with the incumbent
Social democrat
premier favored to win.
(BBC)
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
:
Voters in break away "people's republics" (
Donetsk People's Republic
and
Lugansk People's Republic
respectively) in
Donetsk
and
Luhansk
go to the polls for
parliamentary and presidential elections
. Rebel leaders
Alexander Zakharchenko
(Donetsk) and Igor Plotnisky (Luhansk) appear set for victory in early counting in elections which will be recognised in
Russia
but not elsewhere. International observers noted a very high turnout.
(BBC)
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