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00:00 A suicide bomber detonates an explosive device outside Turkey's interior ministry just hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen.
00:10 Populist former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his leftist smear party win Slovakia's parliamentary elections after campaigning on a pro-Russia message.
00:20 In Poland, hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters marched through Warsaw just two weeks before a crucial parliamentary election.
00:30 Federal employees and military personnel across the United States breathe a sigh of relief as the federal government narrowly avoids a shutdown.
00:42 A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside Turkey's interior ministry in Ankara on Sunday morning, just hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen after a summer recess.
00:54 A second assailant was killed in a shootout with police. Two officers were reportedly slightly injured during the attack. There was no immediate information on the assailants.
01:06 Kurdish and far-left militant groups as well as the so-called Islamic State have carried out deadly attacks throughout the country in the past.
01:16 The death toll from a fire at a nightclub in southeastern Spain has risen to 13, local emergency services say, as rescue workers continue to search the debris for more victims.
01:28 Firefighters were alerted early on Sunday morning to a blaze at a venue in the Atalaya district in the city of Murcia.
01:36 They managed to put out the fire by 8 a.m., but ongoing search and rescue operations remain delicate, with the severely damaged building at risk of collapse.
01:45 The mayor of Murcia has declared three days of mourning in memory of the victims.
01:52 Populist former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his leftist SMER party have won Slovakia's parliamentary elections in what's widely seen as a victory for Vladimir Putin.
02:02 After a campaign based on a pro-Russia, anti-American message, SMER led with 22.9 percent, the Slovak statistics office said on Sunday, after counting more than 99.9 percent of the vote.
02:16 Fico's main rival, Mikhail Simica, whose progressive Slovakia party was a distant second at 18 percent, said Fico's win is bad news for the country, and would be even worse if SMER manages to form a government.
02:31 The country of 5.5 million people has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine since Russia's invasion last year, donating weapons and opening its borders to refugees fleeing the war.
02:45 Fico opposes EU sanctions on Russia and wants to block Ukraine from joining NATO.
02:52 Hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters marched through Warsaw on Sunday, just two weeks before a crucial parliamentary election.
03:00 Opposition leader Donald Tusk, who was once the European Council president, is trying to get rid of the controversial nationalist government that's been eroding the rule of law.
03:09 After it was found to be limiting the independence of its judges, the EU has been fining Poland half a million euros every day.
03:17 The ruling Law and Justice party has also interfered with state media to ensure it mostly promotes the government's views.
03:24 And it's promoted populist policies, such as demanding Germany pay reparations for atrocities committed in World War II.
03:32 Recent surveys suggest the opposition's electoral alliance is a few percentage points behind Law and Justice.
03:39 But Donald Tusk says he thinks the wider opposition could defeat the ruling party and former government,
03:44 and at the start of the march he greeted leaders of the centrist Third Way party.
03:50 A sigh of relief for millions of federal employees and military personnel in the US as the federal government narrowly avoided a shutdown.
04:00 There will be no government shutdown.
04:03 With a vote of 88 to 9, Senate gave the green light to a 45-day funding package which will keep federal agencies open until mid-November.
04:12 Good afternoon, everyone.
04:13 The American people have won. The extreme MAGA Republicans have lost.
04:20 In 45 days, we should get our work all done.
04:25 The package was pitched by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who abruptly abandoned demands for steep spending cuts which had held up negotiations.
04:34 The package drops aid to Ukraine, a White House priority opposed by a growing number of Republicans, but increases federal disaster assistance by 16 billion euros.
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