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Bangladeshis overwhelmingly voted to give Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a third term in office.  The governing coalition had won 281 seats in the legislature, far above the 151 seats to form a government.  Government supporters say Hasina's enormous popularity is based on increased special spending on necessities like health, housing, and education.  She has also been praised in international circles for hosting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar. 

But election observers aren't happy with the balloting in Bangladesh:  "It was a travesty of an election," said government and politics Professor Ali Riaz of Illinois State University, "What happened throughout the country, polling center by center, from driving out the polling agents to ballot stuffing, can't be called an election, let alone a credible election."  The Islamist and conservative opposition already is calling the election "farcical", claiming they've been harassed and their activists arrested.  The polling has been marred with violence, and authorities say at least 16 people are dead.

Vote counting is underway in the DR Congo election.  But more than a million voters in the Ebola zone won't be able to cast ballots for months because of travel restrictions - that's long after the planned inauguration of whoever gets the nod to replace strongman President Joseph Kabila after his 17 years in power.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has finally expressed concern for two Canadians detained by China in a diplomatic row.  A group of academics and former diplomats noted that most of Canada's allies had voiced their support much earlier:  "It's difficult to understand why the Australian Government has been so silent on this fundamental issue of democratic values," said Rory Medcalf of the National Security College at the Australian National University, as quoted by the ABC.  China detained the two after Canada arrested a top Huawei executive at the Vancouver Airport on a US warrant.  A Canadian court is decided if she'll be extradited to the US to face charges of breaking economic sanctions on trade with Iran.

Brazil's incoming far-right president Jair Bolsonaro says he will issue a decree loosening guy ownership restrictions after he takes power on 1 January.  The country already has one of the world's highest murder rates, which dipped for a brief period after 2003 when congress passed strict gun control legislation.  Whether Bolsonaro can do away with laws by decree remains to be seen.  Bolsonaro's office is decorated with bumper sticker slogans from the American gun rights group NRA.  Anticipating a rush f gun sales, share prices of Brazilian gun maker Taurus are up 88 percent over a year ago.

The ex-foreign minister of Argentina, Hector Timerman, is dead at age 65 after being diagnosed with cancer.  He played a key role in the controversial investigation into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center which left 85 people dead.  Conservatives accuse Timerman and then-President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner (CFK) of somehow trying to cover-up Iranian involvement in the terrorist attack in exchange for a non-existent oil deal.  The investigation into the conspiracy theory fizzled out under CFK, but revived with conservative President Mauricio Macri.  Timerman was placed under house arrest, where he died.