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Election day in Pakistan was bloody, with an Islamic State suicide bomber killing at least 31 people at a polling place in the city of Quetta.  Two more people were killed in violence elsewhere.  The contest puts the Muslim League party of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif - who is currently jailed for corruption after a scandal stemming from the Panama Papers leak - against self-proclaimed reformer and former cricket star Imran Khan.  The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) says there are ample reason to doubt the outcome, especially with the military's apparent bias against Sharif's party in favor of Mr. Khan.

They're still looking for dozens of people reported missing in Greece's killer wildfires, with crews sifting through burned homes and cars.  At least 80 people are dead and thousands were sent running from a wall of flame that quickly descended on the resort town of Mati, many choosing to flee into the sea.  Local media says four people have been arrested for looting in the fire zone.

Scientists have long wondered about the amount of water on Mars, but Italian researchers believe they've got at least part of the answer.

A brother and sister in Lima, Peru set off explosives in a medical clinic they accused of negligence in their mother's death by brain cancer five years ago.  Alexander and Claudia Benites were both seriously injured in the explosions - and are now being treated in the intensive care unit of the hospital they're accused of attacking.  At least 35 people were injured.

The French gangster who escaped prison in an intricate plot involving a helicopter, Redoine Faid, narrowly avoided recapture.  Cops spotted Faid in a shopping center car park near Paris, but he got away as they closed in, in the process abandoning a Renault Laguna loaded with plastic explosives.  This is the first sighting of Faid since his 1 July jail break in which a hijacked chopper was used to distract the guards while he fled with the help of armed accomplices.

The soccer ball gifted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump at their bizarre news conference in Helsinki contained a chip that can transmit information to nearby cell phones.  Although it is not known if the chip was in any way altered by any party, the chip was originally put in there by Adidas so that people could hold their phones close to the ball to access World Cup videos and competitions.  Adidas claimed the chip couldn't be modified, but declined to comment on whether the device could be used in a Russian cyberattack.  After the news conference, which was roundly condemned by Republicans and Democrats as sell as US allies, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham had joked on Twitter that the ball should be inspected for "listening devices" and that he would "never allow it in the White House."

Trump is postponing his next "summit" with Putin until after January, after Russia suggested it wouldn't accept his invitation.

Donald Trump is heard on an audio recording from just before the 2016 election advising his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to use cash to pay off a Playboy model who claimed an affair with Trump.  Instead, Cohen suggests creating a shell corporation to repay a tabloid newspaper company, which then purchased Karen McDougal's story rights and kept it out of the headlines for the election.  The audio was released to CNN and is one of ten audios believed to be in the possession of special prosecutor Robert Mueller who is looking into Russian influence and other irregularities in the 2016 election.

A state lawmaker from the southern US state of Georgia has quit after appearing on Sasha Baron Cohen's new TV show yelling racist epithets and showing his bare bum.  State Rep. Jason Spencer initially refused to quit, but even fellow Republicans were outraged by this conduct, which was part of a segment abut self defense from terrorism.  Cohen's show "Who is America?" involves the outlandish comedian appearing heavily made-up and in character while talking Americans into doing crazy stuff; current and former Republican lawmakers quite seriously endorsed a mock program to train first graders in firearm and hand grenade usage; former vice president Dick Cheney autographed a fake "home waterboarding kit".  None appeared to understand that the joke was on them.

New Zealand's acting PM Winston Peters accused Australia of "copying" the New Zealand flag, and come up with a new flag design.  "We had a flag that we've had for a long time, copied by Australia, and they should actually change their flag and honor the fact that we got there first with this design," said Mr. Peters.  The royal blue-southern cross design had been around in Oz informally in 1901, a full year before New Zealand officially adopted the very similar design as its flag.  But Australia didn't do so until 1954.  Crikey. 

The world's oldest man turned 113 Wednesday.  Masazo Nonaka attributes his longevity to soaking in hot springs and eating sweets.  When he's not doing that in his home town of Ashoro on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, Oji Nonaka likes to watch sumo wrestling on television and read newspapers.  The world's oldest person is a Japanese woman named Kane Tanaka, who is 115 years and 204 days old, and living in Fukuoka.