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Matt Gates, a Republican congressman from Florida, said he would move to oust Kevin McCarthy, the beleaguered speaker of the House of Representatives, for working with Democrats to pass an 11th-hour stopgap funding bill.

President Joe Biden signed the bill, which prevented a government shutdown in America late on Saturday.

The bill provides money for disaster relief, but none of the aid for Ukraine that Democrats had sought.

The scrambling follows weeks during which hard-right Republican congressman, seeking swinging spending cuts, had blocked efforts to fund the government.

Turkey's government said its forces had carried out air strikes on Kurdish targets in northern Iraq after an apparent suicide bombing on Sunday in the Turkish capital, Ankara.

One bomber died in the attack near the Turkish Parliament, for which the banned Kurdistan workers party later claimed responsibility.

Police shot a second dead.

In Poland, hundreds of thousands of supporters of civic coalition, the leading opposition group, marched through Warsaw, the capital, ahead of a general election on October the 15th.

Many waved EU flags, earlier the ruling law and justice party, which is threatened to take Poland out of the EU, held a smaller rally in the southern city of Katowice.

Smer, a pro-Russian party led by Robert Fizzo, a former Prime Minister, won Slovakia's election.

With almost all ballots counted, Smer took 24% of the vote.

Earlier, exit polls suggested progressive Slovakia, a liberal party, had won the election.

But it took around 17% of the vote. Smer will now probably attempt to form a coalition with other smaller parties.

The first UN humanitarian mission in 30 years arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh at the invitation of Azerbaijan's government.

The organisation had no access to the enclave while it was controlled by Armenian separatists, who were ousted by Azerbaijan last week.

Armenia's government has said that the vast majority of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians have fled to the country from the enclave.

Muhammad Moizu, a pro-China opposition leader, defeated Ibrahim Muhammad Sohli, the incumbent in a president election in the Maldives.

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