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United States

2nd teen dies after shooting

A US teen who had been fighting for her life after a fellow high school student shot her in the head in a Friday rampage has died, the hospital caring for her said. Gia Soriano, 14, is the second teen to die in the country's latest shooting tragedy, in which a male student opened fire in a high school cafeteria in Marysville, Washington state, gunning down one girl before shooting himself dead.

Tunisia

Secular party upbeat after poll

Tunisia's main secular party was upbeat with the general election count underway on Monday. The first parliamentary election since Tunisia's 2011 revolution pitted Islamist party Ennahda against its main secular rival Nidaa Tounes, with an array of leftist and Islamist groups also taking part. Analysts predicted no single group would win the outright parliamentary majority needed to govern alone.

Cyprus

Ex-top banker jailed over taxes

Cyprus' ex-central bank chief Christodoulos Christodoulou was jailed for five months for tax evasion on Monday after failing to declare a 1 million euro ($1.27 million) cash transfer. It was among six tax-related charges Christodoulou had pleaded guilty to before the Nicosia district court this month.

Uruguay

Election heads to runoff

Leftist former president Tabare Vazquez and his center-right rival Luis Lacalle Pou will head into a Nov 30 runoff after a presidential vote failed to deliver an outright winner, results showed on Monday. President Jose Mujica will be succeeded either by his Broad Front ally Vazquez, who gained 45.5 percent of the vote, or the National Party's Lacalle Pou, who won 32 percent, election officials said on Monday.

Yemen

Officials: 250 die in clashes

Yemeni security officials said at least 250 people have been killed in three days of fighting between Shiite Houhti rebels and an influential tribe in the town of Radda in central Bayda province.

Fighters from the strong Qifa tribe, after three days of fierce fighting, forced the Houthis on Monday out of the Manasih area in Radda, the officials said.

Germany

44 police hurt in protest skirmish

Forty-four German riot police were injured in clashes with far-right hooligans rallying against "Islamist extremism" in the western city of Cologne overnight, police said on Monday. Police used batons, pepper spray and water cannon against the protesters, who hurled rocks, bottles and firecrackers at them, a spokesman said. About 20 demonstrators were detained, he added.

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(China Daily 10/28/2014 page11)