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A suicide bomber driving a car has targeted a military base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Reports say at least eight soldiers died when the car laden with explosives was driven into the gates of the base near Mogadishu Stadium and exploded. Fifteen soldiers were injured in the blast. The Islamist militant group, Al-shabab, claimed it carried out the attack. It frequently targets civilian and military targets in central and southern Somalia.


Public anger over Tuesday's massive explosion in Beirut shows no sign of abating, with large anti-government protests planned in the city later today. The march, which will also commemorate the victims, will go from the port area to Martyr Square.


The United Nations and President Emmanuel Macron of France will co-host a Lebanon donors conference on Sunday. The organizers hope to secure pledges of humanitarian aid from President Trump and other leaders and European institutions.


Hong Kong's government has called U.S. sanctions on eleven senior officials in the territory shameless and despicable. The sanctions will freeze the U.S. assets of those targeted that include the territory's leader, Carrie Lam, and Beijing's senior official there, Luo Huining. Mr. Luo quipped he didn't have any assets abroad to freeze, and offered to send President Trump 100 dollars to impound.


On the eve of a crucial presidential election, the prosecutor-general's office in Belarus has asked the Telecommunications Ministry to find a way of blocking the website of an independent vote-counting service. Protests across Belarus ahead of Sunday's vote have rattled the veteran president, x.


And anti-government demonstrators in Bulgaria have re-erected blockades in the city...in the capital, Sophia, less in a day after police dismantled them.


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