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Far-right on edge of power as Austria votes for president

Vienna/ AFP Austrians voted on Sunday in a key presidential runoff which could usher in the European Union’s first extreme right-wing leader amid the continent’s worst post-war migrant crisis. A huge influx of asylum-seekers, growing unemployment and frozen reforms have left Austria deeply polarised and driven angry voters away from the centrist ruling coalition toward fringe groups. For the first ...

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7 dead after volcano erupts in western Indonesia

  GAMBER / AP The death toll in the eruption of a volcano in western Indonesia rose to seven on Sunday, with two other people in critical condition, as an official warned of more eruptions. Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province blasted volcanic ash as high as 3 kilometers into the sky on Saturday, said National Disaster Management Agency spokesman ...

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S Korean missionary beaten to death in Philippine home

  Manila/ AFP A South Korean missionary was beaten to death in his home in a shocking attack southeast of the Philippine capital, police said on Sunday. Sim Jae-jok had returned from an early morning jog when he discovered an intruder in his kitchen in the town of Taytay on Friday, said Superintendent Samuel Delorino. The intruder knocked the 57-year-old ...

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