Seven things Pakistan's election results reveal
Did the army control the process from the start, were votes rigged, and can Imran Khan deliver stability to the country?by Asad Hashim
With election results from at least 267 of Pakistan's 272 National Assembly constituencies now in, we can begin to make some sense of what has been a historic vote in the South Asian country, seeing Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerging as the single largest party in parliament for the first time ever.
The PTI has broken the duopoly held by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for decades.
Pakistan has also been directly ruled by the military for roughly half of its 70-year history.
Colombian journalists say death threats reflect 'ugly' climate under new leader
Journalists say ‘dangerous new atmosphere’ has emerged since Iván Duque, a fierce opponent of the peace process, took power
Prominent Colombian journalists have warned that a string of death threats over their coverage of the country’s peace process reflects an “ugly and dangerous new atmosphere” in the country since the election of its new president.
María Jimena Duzán of the weekly magazine Semana was threatend on Twitter with a message urging she be “raped, spat upon, chopped up with a chainsaw and hung in the Plaza de Bolívar” – the main square in the capital, Bogotá.
Minutes after the threat was sent, the account which posted it and the IP address were closed.
Lawmakers trying to stop the production of 3-D-printed guns. But it might be too late
Lack of serial numbers on printed firearms makes them near-impossible to trace, say gun-control campaigners
US gun safety campaigners have expressed their anger over Congress' failure to regulate the manufacture of 3-D printed guns.
Following a multi-year legal battle, the federal government last month entered into a settlement with Defense Distributed founder, Cody Wilson.
Mr Wilson rose to fame after manufacturing the the first fully 3-D printed pistol in 2013, when he was just 25. Within days of publication, Mr Wilson's design files had been downloaded more than 100,000 times.Julian Assange looks for deal to end 'diplomatic isolation'
Updated 0843 GMT (1643 HKT) July 28, 2018
Julian Assange walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 19, 2012 to claim political asylum. He has been there ever since -- a total of 2,230 days -- rarely seeing daylight. But multiple sources say his situation is now untenable and he may soon leave, whether he wants to or not.
The question is: what will happen to Assange as and when he does walk out of his bolt-hole around the corner from Harrods?
The recent indictments issued by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller imply that Assange and WikiLeaks were a conduit for Russian intelligence in distributing hacked Democratic Party emails in 2016.
Carr fire: California blaze leaves two dead
A raging wildfire in northern California has killed two firefighters and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
The fires in Shasta county are being sucked up by strong winds to form "fire tornados" that are uprooting trees and overturning cars, fire officials say.
The fires have destroyed at least 500 structures and are threatening thousands of homes.
Firefighters are battling the blaze, which is only 5% contained so far.
The wildfire, which has been named the Carr fire, began on Monday and has scorched over 48,000 acres (194 sq km) of land - an area larger than the city of San Francisco.
Disaster-hit Japan braces for powerful typhoon
Today 03:13 pm JST
A powerful typhoon hurtled towards Japan Saturday, with western areas recently devastated by floods and landslides in the storm's cross-hairs.
Typhoon Jongdari, packing winds of up to 180 kilometres (110 miles) an hour, is forecast to make landfall on the country's main island on Saturday night or early Sunday, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency.
The storm, currently some 400 kilometres southeast of Tokyo, is expected to barrel towards the western Chugoku region Sunday, where record rainfall earlier this month unleashed flooding and landslides, killing around 220 people.
Authorities are warning of heavy rain, landslides, strong winds and high waves, and urging people to consider early evacuation.
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