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Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators are sleeping on the streets of Hong Kong ahead of a Monday deadline for withdrawal set by the government. John Sudworth is in Hong Kong.
A few hundred protestors remained camped out in defiance of the government demand that they clear their blockades by Monday morning. Many suspect there maybe some kind of attempt by the police to move them on within the next few hours. So far though, there is no sign of it and rows of students slumber on peacefully on mats laid out across the eight-lane highway that runs through Hong Kong's financial district. Meanwhile, discussions between the government and student protestors about opening a formal dialogue have faltered after a failure to agree on the basic principles on which the talks should be held.
As voting continues in Brazil's elections, the incumbent president Dilma Rousseff has acknowledged that she expected to have taken part in a runoff vote against one of her two rival candidates, the center-right candidate Aecio Neves and the popular environmentalist Marina Silva. From Rio de Janeiro, here is Julia Caneiro.
The big question today is who would make it with her to a second round? If it's Marina Silva, the surprise of this race, she surged in opinion polls after the death of former candidate Eduardo Campos and seemed to have very big chances, and Aecio Neves was pushed back when she entered the race, but now has recovered positions and according to polls we saw last week, was threatening closing in on Marlina. It really seems like this will be decided vote by vote.
A fierce gun battle has been taken place around the besieged Syrian town of Kobani near the border with Turkey. Kurdish fighters backed by US-led airstrikes had tried to hold back Islamic State militants. Paul Adams reports.
The battle for Kobani has intensified once more. From our position across the border, we watched a furious gun battle seem to engulf the eastern edge of the city. In the distance, we could see tanks moving and the muzzle flash of a heavy machine gun. And a war came briefly to the Turkish side as well. We found angry defiant Kurds clustered around the house that'd just been hit by a rocket fired from across the border. Several people have been injured. The Turkish authorities quickly evacuated nearby villages, firing volleys of teargas in an effort to hurt people away from the border. Once again, violence on the Turkish side had distracted it from a much more desperate struggle going on across the border.
There have been fierce clashes in eastern Lebanon between Islamist militants and the Lebanese Shiah group Hezbollah. Reports say the Islamist gunmen believed to be from the Islamic State and the Nusra Front crossed from Syria and attacked Hezbollah positions. Several people have died. Tension has risen in Lebanon since the army attacked Islamist forces who seized a border town last month.
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Somali government forces have taken the last coastal stronghold of the Al-Shabab Islamist militant group. A BBC reporter in Somalia says government soldiers are inside the town of Barawe while African Union troops supporting them with tanks and heavy artillery are outside.
Five police officers have been killed by a suicide bomber in Grozny, the capital of the Southern Russian Republic of Chechnya. Twelve other officers were wounded. The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov told reporters that the bomber disguised as a policeman had blown himself up after he was stopped at the entrance to a concert hall. Separatist rebels who want independence from Russia have been blamed for previous attacks.
Exit polls from Bulgaria snap election have pointed to a comeback for the former bodyguard Boiko Borisov and his right-wing Gerb Party. But the Party was not expected to secure a majority of votes, making another coalition government likely. From Sofia, here is Nick Hope.
If the exit poll results are born out by the real count, Gerb, which stands for citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria, which led the country into February last year, looks set to head the next coalition government. But the task of the Gerb leader Boiko Borisov would be made more complicated by the plethoric parties expected to cross the 4% threshold and to enter the new parliament. The next government will be the fifth in under two years in Bulgaria. It would have to decide rapidly on the fate of the major commercial bank which closed its stores in June and to negotiate with Russian companies over energy supplies this winter.
The French Formula One Racing driver Jules Bianchi is in intensive care after suffering a severe head injury in a crash of the Japanese Grand Prix. Surgeons have been operating on Bianchi who was unconscious when he was taken to hospital. The race was haltered early and the British driver Lewis Hamilton was declared the winner.