2 US researchers win Nobel economics prize

A press conference is being held to announce the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday. Americans William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of New York University won the prize for work in integrating climate change and technological innovation into economic analysis.SD-Agencies

Far-right Bolsonaro wins 1st round Brazil vote

Polarizing* far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro easily won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, but charged that “polling problems” cheated him of outright victory, forcing a run-off against a leftist rival in three weeks.

Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former paratrooper* vowing to crush crime in Latin America’s biggest nation, received 46 percent of ballots — below the 50-percent-plus-one-vote threshold required for a first-round win.

That means he will have to duke it out on October 28 with left-wing candidate Fernando Haddad, who came in second at 29 percent.

Kavanaugh sworn in after divisive fight

Conservative U.S. judge Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Saturday by a razor-thin margin in the Senate, ending months of partisan* rancor* over his nomination and offering Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency.

Kavanaugh was sworn in shortly after the Senate voted 50-48 in his favor — a move that cemented* the high court’s shift to the right under the Republican leader, who has chosen two of the nine sitting justices.

Protesters rallied in Washington and other U.S. cities against the ascent of the 53-year-old judge, who has faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

Saudi journalist ‘was killed in consulate’

Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, was killed inside the consulate, two Turkish sources said on Saturday.

“The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated*,” one of the two Turkish officials said.

Dozens killed in DR Congo oil tanker collision

Dozens of people were killed and as many as 100 others suffered serious burns on Saturday after an oil tanker collided with a vehicle on an arterial highway in the west of DR Congo.

The accident occurred on the road linking the capital Kinshasa to the country’s sole seaport at Matadi on the Atlantic Ocean.

“We have counted 53 charred bodies,” said Florian, a witness, speaking at the disaster site in the village of Mbuba, about 120 kilometers west of Kinshasa.

3 suspects arrested for murder of Chinese

Less than 48 hours after the murder of three Chinese nationals in the Central African Republic, three major suspects were arrested on Saturday, the Chinese Embassy in the country confirmed on Saturday night.

In a meeting with Chen Dong, the Chinese ambassador to the CAR, the country’s Interior Minister Henri Wanzet Linguissara said that the trio were arrested on Saturday, and another search operation would begin on Saturday night.

(SD-Agencies)