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CAMBODIA

Ruling party wins senate election

The ruling Cambodian People's Party, or CPP, won a sweeping victory in the fifth election for the senate, or the upper house, on Sunday, a party's spokesman said. CPP's spokesman Sok Eysan, citing preliminary results, said the CPP won the most votes in the election, with at least 50 of the 58 seats up for grabs, or more than 80 percent of the total votes. He confirmed that former prime minister Hun Sen, the 71-year-old president of the CPP, will take over as the president of the senate, giving him the role of acting head of state when the king is overseas.

JAPAN

Man dies after stabbing in convenience store

A man has died and two other people were injured on Sunday in a stabbing incident in a convenience store in Sapporo in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, the broadcaster NHK reported. A Seicomart convenience store employee in the regional capital Sapporo said a man was behaving aggressively with something looking like a kitchen knife before 7 am, according to NHK. Three employees were stabbed and injured, with a man in his 40s taken to the hospital, where he later died. An unemployed 43-year-old local was arrested on the spot on suspicion of attempted murder.

UNITED KINGDOM

Tories suspend MP over 'Islamophobia'

Britain's ruling Conservative Party suspended its former deputy chairman from the parliamentary party on Saturday after he refused to apologize for saying London's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan "was controlled by Islamists". Pressure had been growing on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Tories to act following lawmaker Lee Anderson's contentious remarks on Friday, which have been condemned as racist and Islamophobic. It comes as incidents of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have risen across the UK. On the right-wing GB News channel, Anderson claimed "Islamists" had "got control" of Khan, who was the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital when first elected in 2016.

Agencies - Xinhua