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- Elders of a village in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula where militants killed 305 people in a mosque had been warned by Islamic State operatives to stop collaborating with security forces and to suspend rituals associated with Islam’s mystical Sufi movement security officials and residents said.
- At least 80 people have been killed in just over 24 hours in suspected Russian and Syrian government shelling in the eastern and southern parts of Syria.
- A political dispute in Greece over a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia is deepening, with opposition politicians and critics decrying plans to sell 66m euros ($78.7m) worth of surplus missiles and bombs to the Arab Gulf country.
- Police in Trump-supporting-towns aid immigration officials in immigration crackdown. Dozens of police departments in the United States have been granted new powers, or are seeking them, to check the immigration status of people they arrest. 29 departments have joined a special program under which they are deputized to perform some tasks of immigration agents, doubling its size in 10 months.
- Pope Francis has met Myanmar's military chief, as he begins the first papal visit to a country widely accused of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims. He has been urged by governments and rights groups to pressure them over their treatment of the Rohingyas.
- A senior U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official filed suit late trying to prevent President Donald Trump from naming an acting head of the watchdog agency, but its top lawyer concluded Trump had the power to do so.
- Security camera footage obtained by Reuters tells a different story of what happened just after midday on October 11 in Barangay, Philippines. Anti-drug officers shot and injured 3 men in this poor district of the Philippine capital, then “rushed” them to hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
- U.S. President Donald Trump will not campaign for Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican Senate candidate who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct with children.
- Hondurans remain on edge hours after polls closed in the presidential election as official results were suspended and 2 candidates declared themselves the next president of the Central American country.
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