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Imran Khan Leads Pakistan Polls Amid Accusations of ‘Rigging.’

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07/26/2018

07/26/2018

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Imran Khan Leads Pakistan Polls Amid Accusations of ‘Rigging.’

Top news: Pakistan was gripped by electoral chaos with the results from its pivotal general election delayed and major parties denouncing “blatant rigging,” as former cricket champion Imran Khan appeared on course for victory.

Results were still being tallied Thursday, hours after Khan’s supporters took to the streets to celebrate winning an election that opponents have said the powerful military rigged in his favor.

Cambodia: The torrent of water unleashed by a deadly  dam collapse in Laos has flowed into Cambodia, forcing thousands to evacuate. On Thursday, rescuers battled monsoon rains to find scores of Laotians still missing after entire villages were washed away.

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AFRICA

•  Violence in Nigeria between semi-nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers has killed around six times more people than deaths related to the Boko Haram insurgency in the first half of 2018, and poses a major threat to the country’s stability, the International Crisis Group said.

•  The project manager of a $4 billion Ethiopian dam being built on the Nile River has been found dead. Ethiopia’s negotiations with Egypt and Sudan, which depend on the Nile for water, over the dam’s impact have been deadlocked for months.

•  South Sudan’s government and the main rebel group signed a power-sharing deal in the Sudanese capital.

AMERICAS

•  A mass shooting in Toronto has revived a debate over the Islamic State’s call to arm the mentally ill. Security experts say that the militant group is actively recruiting people with mental illnesses.

•  Newly disclosed emails show that Republicans in the state of Michigan have been angling to give their party a dominant position through gerrymandered maps and celebrating the plight of their Democratic rivals.

•  Yosemite National Park was evacuated due to threats from a 38,000-acre wildfire.

ASIA

•  A 26-year-old Chinese man set off a small explosive outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing.

•  North Korea will soon return the remains of some of the U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War.

•  Japan executed the last members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, who were sentenced to death for their role in the fatal 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway.

EUROPE

•  Economists are confounded as wages rise in Europe. Data showed that hourly wages in the eurozone increased by 2 percent in the first three months of 2018.

•  European leaders have welcomed the trade truce announced by the EU and the United States, but doubts lingered over its feasibility and the changing moods of President Donald Trump.

•  Greece continues to reel from wildfires that have killed at least 81 people. Authorities suspect that arson may have caused some of the fires.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Yemen's Houthis have attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea.

•  The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, blamed Middle Eastern countries for not doing enough to help the Palestinians financially.

•  A new anti-terror law in Turkey strengthened the authorities' powers in detaining suspects and imposing public order.

- By Martin de Bourmont

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