World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Turkey's long-dominant Justice and Development Party AKP has scored a stunning electoral comeback, regaining its parliamentary majority.

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JAKARTA - Australia is reportedly considering co-operating with Indian authorities on a terror case that could end with the suspect getting the death sentence.

PORT MORESBY - Labor has cautiously welcomed Papua New Guinea's plans to resettle refugees from Manus Island but warns the Australian government must "actively engage" to make it happen.

WADI AL-ZOLOMAT - A Russian plane that crashed in Egypt broke up "in the air" strewing fragments across a wide area, an expert says, as investigators probed the disaster that killed all 224 people on board.

BUCHAREST - Thousands of people have marched in central Bucharest to honour the victims of a weekend disco fire as the death toll from the tragedy climbed to 30.

BEIRUT - Major Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam is using dozens of captives in metal cages as "human shields" in the largest opposition stronghold on the outskirts of Damascus, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

WASHINGTON DC - A US army base went on alert after a soldier dressed for Halloween as a suicide bomber with a simulated explosives vest tried to get onto the compound in a prank.

BERLIN - The East German official who inadvertently announced the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has died aged 86, media reports say.


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