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Some Hong Kong Protesters Defy Government Deadline as Many Go Home

Some Hong Kong Protesters Defy Government Deadline as Many Go Home

<p class="p1"><b>Top news: </b>Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong are <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;" href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roQA21fa>dwindling</a> following a week of continuous, and at times violent, demonstrations across the island city against restrictive Chinese rule. Civil servants returned to work in the Hong Kong government’s headquarters, an important site of the protests. Meanwhile, many students, the heart of the protest movement, have returned to classes.</p>
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<p class="p1">The dissipation comes after Hong Kong’s Leader, Leung Chun-ying, set a deadline for dawn on Monday to re-open government offices. Leung hopes to see the city return to normalcy -- and work -- after a weeklong paralysis. “The situation may evolve into a state beyond control, and will have serious consequences to public safety and order,” he warned. The protests <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;" href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roRAd9e1>grew</a> in the days before the deadline, including demonstrations of up to 200,000 people on Saturday. Some student activists have been invited to meet with city government leaders.</p>
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<p class="p1">Still, hundreds of activists <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;" href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roSA7a4b>remain</a> camped out in Hong Kong’s streets, determined to keep alive their fight for a free vote in the city’s 2017 municipal election.</p>
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<p class="p1"><b>Brazil: </b>Brazil’s presidential election will move to a <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;" href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roTA86d5>runoff</a> vote, following a first round that knocked out Socialist Party candidate and environmental leader Marina Silva. The incumbent Workers’ Party candidate Dilma Roussef will face the center-right Aecio Neves in the second round on Oct. 26. Roussef captured 41.6 percent of the vote compared to Neves’s 33.6 percent, following a last minute surge. Neves is the favorite of Brazil’s business community while Roussef’s party’s social welfare programs have been <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;" href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roUAd8db>popular</a> with many poor Brazilians.</p>

Africa

<p>• Sierra Leone <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roVAc544>recorded 121 deaths</a> from the Ebola on Sunday, the single deadliest day in the country since the virus’s outbreak began four months ago.</p>
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<p>• International aid agencies said in a report that <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roWAeea4>over a million people could be affected by famine</a> in South Sudan if the civil war there does not stop by next year.</p>
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<p>• <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roXAd911>Somali government troops and African Union forces</a> have taken the coastal town of Barawe from al-Shabab militants. The town has not been under the government’s control for 23 years.</p>
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Asia

<p>• A <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roYA1adf>powerful typhoon struck Japan</a>, washing three U.S. servicemen out to see, killing a least one of them. Nearly half a million people evacuated their homes.</p>
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<p>• Following their highest-level diplomatic exchange in five years, <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roZAa711>North and South Korea have agreed</a> to continue talks next month.</p>
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<p>• The Pakistani Taliban sent a message declaring its <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roaA9182>full support for the Islamic State</a> militant group in Syria and Iraq.</p>
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Americas

<p>• Authorities <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2robAf142>in southern Mexico</a> found the “badly burned” bodies of 28 people not far from where 43 student protesters went missing in September. The students are feared murdered by the police.</p>
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<p>• Haiti’s former dictator, <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2rocAbff9>Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier</a>, who ruled from 1971 until 1986, died of a heart attack at age 63.</p>
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<p>• An American in Dallas, Texas is <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roeA35fc>fighting for his life</a> after being diagnosed with Ebola. He is not receiving experimental medication.</p>
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Europe

<p>• A suicide bomber <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2rogA13f1>killed five people and wounded 12 more</a> in the city of Grozny, in the Chechnya region of Russia.</p>
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<p>• Pope Francis <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2rohAe0bb>brought together some 500 bishops</a> to discuss the role of family values in the Catholic Church.</p>
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<p>• <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKS_8PoQ7Qr2roiA427d>Latvia’s ruling center-right government</a> won a majority in general elections held over the weekend. The government in Riga has taken a hard line against Russia over Ukraine.</p>
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Middle East

<p>• The Islamic State group’s fighters are <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKOhcPoQ7Qr2rchA6ed7>advancing on the Kurdish town of Kobani</a>, Syria, near the Turkish border, despite U.S.-led airstrikes.</p>
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<p>• Al Qaeda-backed jihadist group <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKOhsPoQ7Qr2rcnA63da>Nusra Front fought with the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah</a> on the Lebanon-Syria border. At least 18 people have been killed in the clashes.</p>
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<p>• Vice President Biden <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vntq.1et0/VDKLrcPoNHxjubj3A2838>apologized to the United Arab Emirates</a> for saying previously that the country had funded and backed terrorist groups in Syria.</p>
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- By Max Strasser

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